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Eight hours in a New Orleans Convention Center ballroom Saturday wasn't enough for Bernie Miklasz and me, so we hung out some more over the phone this week for his 101ESPN St. Louis radio show. Feel free to eavesdrop . 2013 HOF Finalists, Mode...

Tim Brown's inflammatory comments toward former Oakland Raiders coach Bill Callahan provided the launching point for the latest "Inside Slant" podcast with Kevin Seifert. It's not every day a Hall of Fame finalist -- Brown, not Seifert -- suggest...

Five of 15 modern-era finalists for 2013 Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrinement have ties to teams currently in the NFC West. Their names are shaded in the chart below: Kevin Greene, Charles Haley, Aeneas Williams, Jerome Bettis and Eddie DeBartol...

Ed from Lake Arrowhead, Calif., thinks the St. Louis Rams have sufficient draft needs to stand pat at No. 6 and select a player that falls to them. He thinks there's no reason to panic if Oklahoma State wide receiver Justin Blackmon is not available....

The San Francisco 49ers cannot be sure what they'll get from Randy Moss in 2012. Expectations are naturally low after Moss, 35, produced sparingly for three teams in 2010 before sitting out the 2011 season. But what does history tell us? Wit...

The San Francisco 49ers' resurgence this season recalls the team's greatest years. How appropriate, then, that Eddie DeBartolo Jr. has emerged as a Pro Football Hall of Fame finalist for the first time. DeBartolo and former St. Louis/Arizona defen...

Skip Bayless and Dan Graziano took up the case for Charles Haley as a Pro Football Hall of Famer on ESPN's First Take. Bayless thought Haley should have qualified on the first ballot as a key championship variable for the San Francisco 49ers and D...

Five first-time finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame pushed San Francisco 49ers great Roger Craig off the list this year. That's a bad sign for his long-term Hall hopes because there's already a backlog of Hall-worthy players. Former St. Lo...

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Seeing an Oakland Raiders fan sitting beside a Seattle Seahawks fan during my flight to Oakland -- there were no injuries, only some obligatory smack talk -- brought back memories from old AFC West battles between the teams. Sea...

Kent Somers of the Arizona Republic credits Alan Faneca for much of the Cardinals' success running the ball against the Rams in Week 1. Somers: "At 33, he proved he's still agile enough to pull and be an effective lead blocker. By my count, Faneca pu...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Jerry Rice left nothing to chance during his NFL career with the San Francisco 49ers, Oakland Raiders and Seattle Seahawks. The all-time receiving leader certainly wasn't banking on enshrinement in the Pro Football Hall of...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Jerry Rice's enshrinement in the Pro Football Hall of Fame stood as a formality. Little -- OK, nothing -- needed to be said about the greatest receiver in 49ers history and arguably in NFL history. The big question at r...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Jerry Rice, Russ Grimm, John Randle, Emmitt Smith and Rickey Jackson made the list of five final candidates for enshrinement in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Of the five, only those receiving 80 percent approval from the ...

MIAMI -- We're approaching 1,700 comments on the piece about Jerry Rice's potential standing as the greatest player in NFL history. I have also heard from people through the NFC West mailbag. Those comments and my responses follow. Greg from Carli...

Doug from Chicago writes: Hey Mike,Where do you see Beanie in the rookie of the year race? I feel he has a strong shot. Better YPC than Knowshon Moreno, more TDs than Percy Harvin. Harvin Wells Mike Sando: NFC North blo...

Posted by ESPN.com's Mike Sando Bernie Miklasz of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch relays Billy Devaney's vision for the Rams' future. Devaney advocates expanding the pro personnel department, becoming bigger and more physical throughout the roster, impro...