Meet Your NFL Final Four: Boiling Emotions, Bitter Rivals, and the Next Joe Montana?

Well, that couldn't have worked out any better for the NFL. After a compelling divisional round of the NFL playoffs that featured a few upsets, a transcendent...

FOOTBALL: THE PASSING OF AN ERA

"We considered Montana to be among the top two or three quarterbacks in the draft," said [head coach Bill] Walsh, who had Jack Thompson of Washington State and...

Sport: Clearly, The Team of the Decade

Hard-core football fans remember decades by the teams that dominated them. In the 1960s Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers ruled the National Football League,...

Joe Montana: Perfect Timing, Joe:

Montana moves San Francisco from cellar doldrums to superdreams The two-minute warning, for San Franciscans looking back at a glorious football season and...

A Letter From The Publisher: Jan. 25, 1982

By the time Quarterback Joe Montana had led San Francisco to its heart-stopping victory over the Dallas Cowboys and to the National Football Conference...

Examining the 49ers Quarterback Controversy

Alex Smith is losing his starting spot to challenger Colin Kaepernick, and he may never get it back.

Bryce Harper: Baseball's LeBron James -- or Its Ryan Leaf?

Our sports prodigies -- those phenoms touted to be the next Michael Jordan, Willie Mays, Joe Montana or whomever -- often fail, spectacularly. In the 1980s,...

A Taste of Stardom

Madonna, Olivia Newton-John, Joe Montana, Francis Ford Coppola--is there a celebrity who doesn't have a wine these days? For many, it's a high-end hobby. For...

Too Hollywood for L.A.?

Babe Ruth in New York. Joe Montana in San Francisco. Michael Jordan in Chicago. Sometimes the sports gods manage to find the most natural habitat for a player...

Dad Says Two Kids Make A Crowd

Elvis Presley was an only child, also Leonardo da Vinci, Nancy Reagan, Robin Williams, Brooke Shields, Joe Montana, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Updike, Chelsea...