Power rankings revisited: Week 13

...by votes from John Clayton, Paul Kuharsky and Jeff Chadiha. Red lettering identifies teams that lost in...playoffs. Still to play: (11) Baltimore at (13) Green Bay on "Monday Night Football." Fraud alert: The...

Officially speaking: On holding

...18 Bill Leavy 16 Walt Coleman 16 Ed Hochuli 16 John Parry 15 Jeff Triplette 14 Jerome Boger 14 Scott Green 12 Tony Corrente 10 Terry McAulay 10 Gene Steratore 9 Al Riveron 8...

Around the NFC West: 49ers' open minds

...in the visitor's locker room. The 49ers players are never happy about a loss. But in Green Bay, the atmosphere was different. Players were talking amongst each other more. There was a palpable sense...

Mailbag: Flip side to Hawthorne's success

Ryan from Seattle writes: Hey, Sando, guess who is 13th in the league for solo tackles? That's right, David Hawthorne, backup middle linebacker for th...

Officially speaking: Which refs most active?

...6 Jeff Triplette 8 15.9 John Parry 8 15.6 Ed Hochuli 9 15.2 Don Carey 7 14.4 Mike Carey 9 14.3 Terry McAulay 8 14.3 Scott Green 9...

Sizing up injuries in the NFC West

Around the NFC West: Cardinals recover

...the team may wait until next week to fill Ah You's spot on the active roster." Jeff Gordon of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch explains Warner's appeal in St. Louis this way: "One...

Around the NFC West: Seahawks owner ill

Brier Dudley of the Seattle Times says Seahawks owner and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Dudley: "The...

Power rankings revisited: Week 9

...Jeff Chadiha. Red lettering identifies teams that lost in Week 9. And now, the power rankings revisited ... The reckoning: Three games featured lower-ranked teams defeating higher-ranked teams: (32) Tampa Bay 38, (12) Green...

Around the NFC West: Fisher, Singletary reunited

...ESPN.com's Mike Sando John Crumpacker of the San Francisco Chronicle checks in with Titans coach Jeff Fisher and 49ers coach Mike Singletary, who were rookie teammates with the Bears in 1981. Fisher: "It...

Officially speaking: Winter always right?

...Carey 13 6 Al Riveron 11 6 Scott Green 9 5 Walt Coleman 10 4 John Parry...Ron Winter 16 2 Ed Hochuli 8 2 Jeff Triplette 6 2 Walt Anderson 5 2 Tony...

Around the NFC West: Cardinals believe on 'D'

...just two quarters in the preseason comeback against Green Bay. Leinart also had a 405-yard passing...yet from Thomas: Linebacker David Vobora is back. Jeff Gordon of stltoday.com says the Rams have...

Officially speaking: Inside the numbers

...Riveron 10 5 Jerome Boger 7 3 Scott Green 6 3 Gene Steratore 6 3 Terry McAulay...Walt Coleman 5 1 Tony Corrente 4 1 Jeff Triplette 4 1 Ed Hochuli 3 1 Peter...

Power rankings: How the voters voted

...Chiefs, Bucs and Rams all held firm. Deadlocked: We broke one tie this week. Pittsburgh prevailed over Green Bay based on a better record. Groupthink: All four panelists ranked the Bengals sixth. Three had the...

Officially speaking: Ref satisfaction index

...7 Gene Steratore 4 1.0 Jeff Triplette 3 1.0 Jerome Boger 3 0.8 Mike Carey 3 0.8 Walt Coleman 3 0.8 Scott Green 3 0.8 Carl Cheffers 2...