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Byline: Bryan Burwell JACKSONVILLE, Fla. _ So the minicams lined up three rows deep in the back on the aluminum bleacher seats, and the notepads and tape recorders shoved in [...]

Byline: Bryan Burwell JACKSONVILLE, Fla._Seventeen years ago, I was in the media throng that gathered around Doug Williams in the mad buildup to Super Bowl XXII, when a well-intentioned, though [...]

Byline: Bryan Burwell ST. LOUIS _ So this is what it looks like when a lifetime of unfathomable baseball history finally expires right before our eyes, only to rise up [...]

Byline: Bryan Burwell HOUSTON _ The National League Championship Series is on its way back to St. Louis in a dramatically altered and barely recognizable state. Five days ago, when [...]

Byline: Bryan Burwell HOUSTON _ Now that we have traveled four games deep into this National League Championship Series, the search has officially ended for that one little nugget that [...]

Byline: Bryan Burwell ST. LOUIS _ The agonizingly slow and somewhat comical progression toward the truth in baseball's embarrassing steroid scandal took another unsteady step in the right direction Tuesday. [...]

Byline: Bryan Burwell HOUSTON _ As the frenzy of Super Bowl XXXVIII Media Day began Tuesday morning inside Reliant Stadium, the New England Patriots' top two assistant coaches, Charlie Weis [...]

Byline: Bryan Burwell HOUSTON _ He says he sees them looking. He says he can feel their eyes follow him around every room he walks in. Eugene Robinson knows they [...]

Byline: Bryan Burwell ST. LOUIS _ Little by little, as pro football's lengthy season moves closer and closer to its championship conclusion, the pace improves, the intrigue heightens and the [...]

Byline: Bryan Burwell ST. LOUIS _ Cub fans are on the vindication trail. As the Cards continue to slide into oblivion, so many fearless Chicagoans hold tight to the belief [...]

Byline: Bryan Burwell ST. LOUIS _ The stat sheet was sitting right there on the table, but Mike Martz was in no mood to take a peek. There was no [...]

Byline: Bryan Burwell Because baseball is a sport driven as much by numbers as the naked eye, it is no small mystery why Albert Pujols continues to fall under the [...]

Byline: Bryan Burwell NEW ORLEANS _ All of a sudden, the raging question of this exciting Final Four weekend no longer seems to be about who will win college basketball's [...]

Byline: Bryan Burwell DALLAS_The network television cameras were off, the klieg lights had faded, and after the obligatory mugging for the CBS nationally televised audience, Missouri's basketball players quickly filed [...]

Byline: Bryan Burwell ST. LOUIS _ The long and sordid road that has led us to the heart of the LeBron James fiasco is so cluttered with shiftless no-accounts, hypocritical [...]

In the gladiator environment where pro football players dwell, courage is a commodity easily mistaken for foolishness. Consider the man who staggers off the field woozy as a skid-row bum, [...]

ST. LOUIS _ Okay, now remind me once again, what was it we were saying before? Oh yeah, that's right . . . 'There is no quarterback controversy . . [...]

ST. LOUIS _ For the past few months, Busch Stadium had been filled with so much improbable magic. But late into the cool autumn night in Game 2 of the [...]

Byline: Bryan Burwell ST. LOUIS _ For all the cold, impassive, practical business reasons that the Rams wanted to get Marshall Faulk's name on one more multi-million dollar deal, there […]

Byline: Bryan Burwell ST. LOUIS _ For far too long, all the protectors of baseball's bogus Summer of Love lined up like dutiful apologists and head-in-the-sand romantics, zealously blocking out […]

Byline: Bryan Burwell ST. LOUIS _ For all of you who want to turn this latest steroid stain on baseball into an issue of Jose Canseco's credibility, you're at least […]

Byline: Bryan Burwell JACKSONVILLE, Fla. _ From the anonymous little league bench-warmer to the potential-filled high school prodigy to the glitzy professional millionaire, the common thread that runs between these […]

Byline: Bryan Burwell ST. LOUIS _ "Common sense is in spite of, not because of, age." _ Lord Thurlow The absolute best thing about covering the Rams is that this […]

Byline: Bryan Burwell ATLANTA _ At the end of this draining night in Georgia, inside the visitor's locker room in the lower reaches of the Georgia Dome, the Rams' traveling […]

Byline: Bryan Burwell ST. LOUIS _ If their timing wasn't perfect, it surely was, oh, just a wee bit intriguing. Several weeks late_and with a won-loss record that looks more […]

Byline: Bryan Burwell SEATTLE _ As the giant scoreboard inside Qwest Field ticked off the final, exhilarating, excruciating seconds of this woolly NFC wild-card playoff game, 65,397 distraught witnesses to […]

Byline: Bryan Burwell ST. LOUIS _ Rivalries do not just happen upon us. They are brewed slowly out of the residue of triumph and frustration, fear and loathing, envy and […]

Byline: Bryan Burwell ST. LOUIS _ With the entire pro football world watching the Rams' surprising 20-7 victory over the scaled-back Philadelphia Eagles, there were 66,129 starving Rams fans at […]

Byline: Bryan Burwell ST. LOUIS _ For one brief moment, Deron Williams allowed himself a rare flicker of emotion. The smooth Illinois junior guard could hear the final buzzer echoing […]

Byline: Bryan Burwell PHOENIX _ The St. Louis Rams have played this season as if it was an extended game of Russian roulette, forever keeping us anxious and aggravated as […]

Byline: Bryan Burwell ST. LOUIS _ OK, now you can panic. Less than a week ago, I tried to lower blood pressures and soothe so many nervous souls among Cardinal […]

Byline: Bryan Burwell CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ For better or worse, this is who the St. Louis Rams are right now as they stagger to the finish line of this season […]

Byline: Bryan Burwell ST. LOUIS _ Because we already know there's no crying in baseball, what exactly are we supposed to do about a sport that once proudly touted itself […]

Byline: Bryan Burwell ST. LOUIS _ So really now, was it all worth it? On that fateful day that Jason Giambi decided the surest path to fame and fortune was […]

Byline: Bryan Burwell With an entire football nation serving as witnesses, the Rams showed us all on "Monday Night Football" that they are playing like a team that not only […]