Kyle Williams (football, wide receiver)

The Sports Xchange Manningham confident he will fill Crabtree void The San Francisco 49ers will be counting on Mario Manningham this year more than ever after losing leading receiver Michael Crabtree for possibly the entire season because of a torn...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- The severe injury to San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree occurred during a 7-on-7 drill Tuesday. "He was coming in motion, planted and started a route and he said it felt like someone kicked him in the Achilles --...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. Coach Jim Harbaugh confirmed that 49ers No. 1 wide receiver Michael Crabtree suffered a torn right Achilles tendon and that Crabtree underwent surgery Wednesday morning. Harbaugh also said that Crabtree is not expected to miss the...

The advantage of having an already-loaded roster on draft day is a team can gamble. The 49ers did that in the fourth round Saturday, selecting one of the most talented running backs in the nation but one who suffered perhaps the most gruesome injury...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. _ Marcus Lattimore's NFL dreams temporarily vanished when he tore three knee ligaments Oct. 27: "I doubted myself and I lost hope." Among the cavalry that came to lift Lattimore's spirits and inspire his rehabilitation was 49ers...

SAN FRANCISCO — In 2009, the Cubs selected a strong, 6-foot-4-inch power pitcher named Colin Kaepernick in the 43rd round of the amateur baseball draft. So in some ways Kaepernick's right arm always seemed destined to disappoint Chicago one day....

Washington Redskins receiver Joshua Morgan felt the full downside of the social media age this week, receiving death threats and other venomous message on Twitter because of his fourth-quarter blunder in the loss to the St. Louis Rams. Morgan talked...

SANTA CLARA — The 49ers' Kyle Williams lost the football. But as painful as that memory is, he doesn't want to lose the feeling. Williams' fumble in overtime of the NFC championship game — his second such turnover of the game —...

Disgraced defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, suspended indefinitely by the NFL for his role in the New Orleans Saints' bounty scandal, urged his players to take shots at the head, knees and ankles of specific San Francisco 49ers before a playoff game...

Former Bears safety Doug Plank called himself "a pat-down candidate" as he answered my phone call while going through an airport security line Friday in Philadelphia. Plank's three artificial joints send off alarms whenever he travels and remind him of...

From literally one side of the country to another, the path of the first Super Bowl in Indianapolis is being decided. In New England, it was the Patriots who were the first to clinch a spot for the big game and a trip to the Hoosier state. Later on...

TV SPORTS SATURDAY Men's College Basketball-Connecticut at Notre Dame, 10 a.m. (ESPN2); Kentucky at Tennessee, 11 a.m. (ESPN); St. Bonaventure at Xavier, 11 a.m. (ESPNU); Texas at Missouri, Noon (ESPN2); Michigan at Iowa, Noon (Big 10 Network);...