Kansas City Chiefs: Will Shields' Time to Be Inducted into the HOF Will Come
We go through this when the Hall of Fame class is announced every year. Fans will express their thoughts on who got snubbed and who got cheated in the selection process. By no one's surprise, fans will always be biased towards players who played for their favorite team, thinking they should get in because of the fact they saw them play for their favorite team. Many fans will even go as far as ...

Emily Tropp: Free EKG screenings offered to local athletes
After a story about Boylan’s Ty-Ray Thomas and his recovery from surgery for his enlarged heart ran two weeks ago in the Rockford Register Star, Swedish-American Health System contacted me about its Young Hearts For Life Program.

Security conference ends with mutual finger-pointing over stance on Assad
DIPLOMATIC GRAPPLING over Syria dominated the Munich Security Conference yesterday, with Arab attendees denouncing the failed UN resolution condemning violence in Syria as a “disgrace” and a “licence to kill” for the Assad regime.

Who Killed the Franchise NFL QB?
Over the last few years the NFL has gone from a running league to a quarterback driven offense that depends on passing to get big plays.  Every team needs a franchise quarterback, but very few teams have one. There must be some reason that so many teams that don’t have one.  Somebody must be to blame. Maybe it was Tom Brady, the late round Future HOF QB every coach seems to think they can find ...

Video: Nearly 600 compete in HOF runs
From U.S. Border Patrol to Border Collies, nearly 600 participate in Hall of Fame football runs on Sunday. Football teams were well-represented at Sunday’s Big Game 10K and Touchdown 2-Mile run/walk outside the Pro Football Hall of Fame