Guests are supposed to bring gifts, not accept them. The Bucs flew home in a grateful mood Sunday after the breach in etiquette at the Superdome, where a Tampa Bay defense that had feasted on turnovers in recent weeks registered a bizarre late takeaway that proved decisive. ...more

December 3, 2007

NEW ORLEANS While earning NFL Coach of the Year honors in 2006, Sean Payton proved he could transform a losing culture and turn around the dysfunctional Saints. ...more

December 1, 2007

Their once devastating one-two punch is gone. It disappeared when RB Deuce McAllister left the lineup for good after suffering a knee injury, and it has left the Saints a mostly one-dimensional team. ...more

December 1, 2007

Maybe the critics will quiet down a bit now. Much-maligned end Mario Williams led a Houston defense that allowed no second-half points, and Andre Johnson returned for 120 yards receiving and a touchdown to help the Texans to a 23-10 win against the error-prone New Orleans Saints on Sunday. ...more

November 19, 2007

TAMPA - With all due respect to the New England Patriots, Indianapolis Colts and any other NFC team with a winning record, I'm not sure there's another team in the NFL that can truly match what the Bucs have done this year. ...more

November 8, 2007

Most days, one of the five best players in college football walks off the University of Florida practice field past almost two dozen reporters and heads directly to the locker room. Percy Harvin isn't being rude. He's not boycotting anyone. ...more

November 8, 2007

Opposing coaches may as well incinerate game film of the Saints' dreadful 0-4 start. The team in those clips ceased to exist a month ago. ...more

November 5, 2007

The Saints aren't marching in yet, but you can stand on any street corner in Ybor City or Charlotte and hear the drumbeat. ...more

October 30, 2007

There has not been a week this season when the Bucs did not have to worry about stopping one of the top rushers in the NFL. ...more

October 26, 2007

Call him Reggie 'The Bruiser' Bush. People know the flashy Heisman Trophy winner out of Southern Cal by all those highlights of him cutting, spinning and sprinting away from people in the open field. ...more

October 22, 2007