NFL mourns a sack legend
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Green Bay Packers president Bob Harlan called Reggie White last year to set up a date to retire his No. 92. In the storied history of the Packers, only four numbers have been retired and none since Ray Nitschke more than 30 years ago.
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On a day when the Denver Broncos honored the greatest quarterback in franchise history - John Elway received his ring from the Pro Football Hall of Fame during a halftime ceremony â-he
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Brian Russell had no idea what hit him. A guy who routinely tackles 250-pound running backs head-on and occasionally gets pulverized by rampaging 350-pound NFL linemen for a living nearly saw his season end because of a microscopic germ. The Cleveland Browns safety was flattened by a staph infection that hospitalized him during the preseason.
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Jay Hayes, like the rest of the NFL, was stunned at the news. Reggie White died Sunday morning at the age of 43 of an apparent respiratory failure.
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Former NFL all-time sacks leader Reggie White has died at the age of 43. White, a defensive lineman who retired in 2000 after 15 years in the NFL, suffered a massive heart attack at his
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Bucko Kilroy spent 64 years in the National Football League as an All-Pro lineman and was later celebrated as a personnel executive and scout.
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As he stood near the casket of late New England Patriots teammate Marquise Hill, defensive lineman Jarvis Green swallowed hard, took some deep breaths and offered a few fond memories to Hill's grieving relatives.
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Future Hall of Fame athletes playing past their prime often bleach memories of their greatness. That's why it was difficult to watch Arizona Cardinals running back Emmitt Smith, the NFL's all-time leading rusher, struggle for yardage last season. Fans want images of his dominance to remain colorful and vivid, not fade with every setback.
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Former NFL star Reggie White died on Sunday at the age of 43. He was one of the National Football League&#39;s top defensive players for a decade.
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Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar  Hunt, the NFL pioneer who coined the term "Super Bowl," has  died at the age of 74.
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Reggie White was the most-honored athlete ever to play defensive end in the National Football League&#39;s long history and had an illustrious career with both the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers.
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CLEVELAND &#151; This area is football&#146;s mecca &#151; the Hall of Fame is about an hour away, in Canton &#151; yet the fans here have been deprived of good football for so long.
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Two of the NFL's oldest old-timers will be on the final ballot for the Pro Football Hall of Fame next year.
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Justin Strzelczyk , a former player for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the University of Maine, died yesterday in a fiery head-on collision with a tanker truck in Herkimer, N.Y., after he led state troopers on a 40-mile highway chase during morning rush hour. Strzelczyk, 36, was an offensive lineman with the Steelers for nearly a decade until the team released ...
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INDIANAPOLIS - Peyton Manning broke one of football&#39;s most hallowed records, and his reward was praise from one of his boyhood idols.
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Denver's Jake Plummer agrees to stop wearing a No. 40 sticker on his helmet in memory of ex-teammate Pat Tilliman, while the NFL agrees to find other ways to honor the slain soldier.
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The Jacksonville Jaguars released defensive end Tony Brackens, the team&#39;s all-time sack leader, yesterday. Brackens, a second-round draft pick and eight-year team veteran, was released