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Tom Brady has denied 27 QBs in unparalleled playoff success By ARNIE STAPLETONFebruary 3, 2021 GMT When a baby-faced Tom Brady made his first trip to the Super Bowl 19 years ago, Kurt Warner served up the main headline at media day by revealing he wanted to be remembered as the first quarterback to win five Super Bowls. That was one more than Terry Bradshaw and Joe Montana. It was also four more than Warner had, but the St. Louis Rams’ QB and engineer of the “Greatest Show on Turf” insisted at the time that it wasn’t a pipe dream. “Is it realistic? I believe it is,” he mused tha...

Robert Riger/Getty Images The "Ice Bowl' stretch receives more attention; these Packer teams were better. In 1962, Green Bay went 14-1, outscored opponents by an insane 276 points, led the NFL in offense and defense, and repeated as champion at Yankee Stadium. Lombardi took over the Packers in 1959 and had them in the championship in Year 2. After the Eagles became the only team to defeat a Lombardi Packers team in a title game, Green Bay's Jim Taylor- and Paul Hornung-centered power sweep took over the NFL. The Packers beat the Giants 37-0 in the 1961 title game. Eleven Hall of Fame...

By David Mullen As is the tradition of this column at the beginning of a new year, we look back at the personalities who passed away in the previous year but had a profound impact on the sports that they served. Many were pinnacles of their game, including seven baseball Hall of Famers and one who deserves enshrinement. Members of Cooperstown who passed were Al Kaline, 85, the classy right-handed hitter called “Mr. Tiger,” Tom Seaver, 75, the most visible player on the “Amazing Mets” 1969 World Series champion team, St. Louis Cardinals legends Lou Brock, 81, one of the greatest leadof...

>>William McDonald, The New York Times Published: 31 Dec 2020 08:28 PM BdST Updated: 31 Dec 2020 08:28 PM BdST Chadwick Boseman in Beverly Hills, Calif, Jan 30, 2018. Death has rarely so shaped a year as it did in 2020. Boseman died on Aug. 28, 2020. (Brinson+Banks/The New York Times Death has rarely so shaped a year as it did in 2020. It swept the world riding the back of the coronavirus. It galvanised a Black Lives Matter movement across the United States and abroad, sending people of all colors into the streets to demand social justice. It altered the ideological makeup of the US Supreme...

Kobe Bryant and Diego Maradona among sports world’s big losses in 2020 Published: Dec. 31, 2020 at 8:30 a.m. ET By Legendary sporting names Jack Charlton, Gale Sayers, Don Shula, Rafer Johnson, Don Larsen, Joe Morgan, Tom Seaver, John Thompson and Curly Neal also among those who left us during this extraordinary year Miami and Milwaukee players take a knee during the national anthem on Aug. 31 in the NBA playoff bubble in central Florida as a video screen pays tribute to the late Georgetown University coach John Thompson, who had died that day. Mike Ehrmann/Getty ...