 Back in 1993, then Chiefs General Manager Carl Peterson signed a highly productive running back whose former team thought he was washed up at 33 years of age. That running back was former Oakland Raider great Marcus Allen.
Allen was brought in to take 26 year-old running back Harvey Williams under his wing, and provide the team some insurance should Williams falter in the running game. It wa...
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 If you believe what NFL players post on Twitter, then in a matter of hours, Terrell Owens will be a Cincinnati Bengal.
Late this afternoon, Owens replied to a tweet by the Bengals Chad Ochocinco, all but saying he was on his way to Cincinnati to sign a contract with the Bengals.
As far as how "conversations" go on Twitter, here's how it went down between Ocho and T.O.:
OGOchoCinco@terrellowe...
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 The 41-year history of the Kansas City Royals is a story of a meteoric rise to contention in the franchise's first 21 years, followed by a titanic fall to baseball's cellar in the last 20 years.
As an expansion team in 1969, the Royals became a winner after just two seasons and was a title contender for two decades. In fact, all seven of the team's playoff appearances occurred during a 10-year str...
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 The Kansas City Chiefs have struggled on the field the past few years.
But if there's one thing Chiefs players continue to do better than any other players in the NFL, it's give back to the community off the field.
For the fifth time in the history of the NFL Man of the Year award, known since 1999 as the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award, a Chiefs player has won for his generosity off the...
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 Back in 1988, the Kansas City Chiefs used the third overall pick of that year's draft on a promising young defensive end named Neil Smith from the University of Nebraska.
In the season that followed, the Chiefs ended up with the league's worst rush defense, hemorrhaging a horrific 162 yards per game. That season, the Marty Schottenheimer-led Chiefs floundered their way to a 4-11-1 record.
In...
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 As a kid growing up in the '70s and '80s, I was a huge baseball fan. Back then, baseball was a sport that wasn't dominated by any single aspect of the game. Teams won games with dominant pitching, defense, the running game, the occasional 3-run homer, or a combination of all of these.
Players like Pete Rose, Fred Lynn, Rickey Henderson, and George Brett put every fundamental on display ...
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