BALTIMORE -- For the previous seven seasons, when Baltimore Ravens^[1] offensive linemen left the field after a drive, they would head to the sideline to hear a trusted voice. Then, Joe D'Alessandris would get down on one knee and instruct "my boys" on...

WHEN TOM HOLMOE arrived in Provo to play football in 1978, his understanding of the BYU^[1]-Utah^[2] rivalry was next to nothing.

He was not then a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and he grew up in Southern California watching the...