The latest edition of 'A Football Life' profiled former Raiders and Broncos player Lyle Alzado. Known for his fierce play and steroid use, there was more to Alzado that few rarely saw.

Lyle Alzado has an ironclad NFL legacy, though probably not one he would have envisioned during his playing days. The late all-pro defensive end, whose 15-year career was split among the Denver ...

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 Classic's SportsCentury series. Lyle Alzado's ticket to the ...

Lyle Alzado, a 42-year-old former football star, has brain cancer. That is sad. Lyle Alzado is omnipresent in the media, blaming 20 years of steroid use for the cancer that grew in his brain. That … ...

Defensive end Lyle Alzado, left, of the Denver Broncos autographs a football for his teammate, linebacker Joe Rizzo, during a break in preparation for meeting the Dallas Cowboys in upcoming Super Bowl ...

Broncos Team Historian Jim Saccomano reflects on how Lyle Alzado went from South Dakota's Yankton College to the NFL. ... Football, he later told Sports Illustrated, was his saving grace. "Without ...

Lyle Alzado handled his by boxing against Muhammad Ali. There are so many strange tales in NFL history that it's impossible to single one out as the strangest, but Alzado fighting Ali at Mile High ...

Lyle Alzado, who for the past four seasons has stood as a snarling embodiment of the Los Angeles Raiders’ tough, take-no-guff approach to football, will announce his retirement from the game today.

Alzado, who played pro football for 15 years as a defensive end, said the Globe libeled him in a May 28 article that was headlined: “Macho Newlywed Lyle Alzado Is Dying And Male Hookers Say NFL ...