Longtime Sports Illustrated NFL writer Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman died Thursday at age 86, Peter King of NBC Sports reported. In 1984, his book The New Thinking Man's Guide to Pro Football was published, ...

Tributes from the sports media world poured in after news that longtime Sports Illustrated NFL writer Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman died Thursday at age 86. Zimmerman covered NFL legends until he suffered a ...

Paul Zimmerman, who covered the NFL for Sports Illustrated for 29 years, died on Nov. 1 at age 86. One of Dr. Z’s most memorable stories, “The Long Way Up,” ran in the July 22, 1985, issue. It was a ...

Paul Zimmerman, the legendary Sports Illustrated football columnist, author, former Jets beatwriter and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Selection Committee, died Thursday at the age of 86. If ...

Paul Zimmerman, a journalist whose extensive analysis of the NFL's complicated schemes changed the way many fans viewed the sport, died Thursday. He was 86. Nicknamed “Dr. Z” for his intellectual ...

For decades, Paul Zimmerman was Sports Illustrated’s “Dr. Z,” the analytical and opinionated football guru who penned erudite and insightful columns, picked games, wrote mock drafts, knew everybody ...

There’s one photograph of Paul Zimmerman, the longtime Sports Illustrated football writer, that seems to encapsulate the man perfectly. Zimmerman is holding a lit cigar in his left hand, plumes of ...

Paul Zimmerman, a pro football writer whose deep understanding of the game informed his work at Sports Illustrated and influenced the way other reporters covered the sport, died on Thursday in ...

Paul Zimmerman, the longtime football writer known for in-depth analysis and cantankerous opinions that appeared in Sports Illustrated for decades, has died at the age of 86. Zimmerman, affectionately ...

I don’t know exactly how or when it happened, but it was sometime in the early 2000s. I was an editorial assistant at then-CNNSI.com where my job consisted of typing magazine stories into our computer ...

There might be as many informative and valuable approaches to covering the NFL these days as there are plays in a typical team’s playbook. There’s the Adam Schefter-type of information broker, ...

A special moment for a worthy coach. Raiders defensive line coach Rod Marinelli was given the Paul Zimmerman Award, also known as the Dr. Z Award, for lifetime achievement as an assistant coach. Coach ...