Editor’s note: This is part of an occasional series acquainting fans with the Raiders’ illustrious 60-year history as the team moves to Las Vegas for the 2020 season. Lyle Alzado likely never would ...

These days, when an All-Pro NFL defensive player has a contract dispute, he goes on "Dancing With The Stars." Lyle Alzado handled his by boxing against Muhammad Ali. There are so many strange tales in ...

The NFL Network has done a great job the past few years finding interesting subjects for its "A Football Life" series. This week it will tackle a story that has many layers. Lyle Alzado. In just a two ...

Lyle Alzado was a throwback to the days before television, when the gridiron was patrolled by oversized coal miners and West Texas psychopaths. Alzado's 15-year NFL career has been tucked away in a ...

Former Raiders defensive end Lyle Alzado, her in action against the Steelers in 1983 at the Los Angeles Coliseum died at the age of 43 from brain cancer. (Malcolm Emmons/US PRESSWIRE) How you take the ...

"That violence that you saw on the field was not real stuff. Lyle used football as a way of expressing his anger at the world and at the way he grew up," says Peter Alzado, Lyle's brother, on ESPN ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland Browns fans know the transient nature of this league, especially over the past couple of decades here in our fair city. Until very recently, the Browns roster seemingly ...

It seems like perfect symmetry that in the week that the Denver Broncos are facing the Los Angeles Chargers, Lyle Alzado has been elected to the Hall of Very Good. A Broncos fan should need no ...

That the Broncos found Lyle Alzado at all was a stroke of luck. As the story goes, Denver's defensive line coach, Stan Jones, was on a scouting trip to Montana when his car began to have transmission ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Unfortunately, I never got to cover Muhammad Ali in his prime. I did in his twilight, though. I had to reconcile what I saw with the memories of the late ...