Randall Cunningham

The quarterback of the '90s should be about 6-foot-4, 200 pounds, like Randall Cunningham. He should be able to throw more than 3,000 yards, like Cunningham. He should be a scrambler, too, someone who runs out of trouble, like Cunningham. And if he happens to be black, like Cunningham, it won't matter. Football is becoming color blind about its quarterbacks, because of people like Philadelphia's Randall Cunningham. It wasn't always that way.

A former military contractor was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in federal prison for bribing former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham with cash, ritzy vacations and prostitutes in exchange for help in getting government contracts. Brent R. Wilkes, 53, who was convicted in November on 13 counts involving more than $700,000 in bribes, was taken into custody after the hearing in San Diego federal court. He was ordered to pay more than $1.1 million in fines and forfeitures. Wilkes' firm, ACDS Inc.

Randy the Dandy dates Whitney Houston. Appears on Arsenio Hall. Shows off his $1.4 million mansion to Robin Leach on "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous." Randall the Sensational throws 95-yard touchdown passes. Leaps tall buildings at the goal line. Scrambles from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and back in one play. Randall the Quarterback? Now that's another story. He's a spectacular one, no doubt. But after six NFL seasons, it's about time he tried something completely different.

SAN DIEGO -- A former military contractor was convicted Monday of bribing disgraced former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham with cash, fancy vacations, furniture and prostitutes in exchange for help in getting government contracts. Brent R. Wilkes, 53, of Poway was convicted in a San Diego federal court on all 13 counts involving more than $700,000 in bribes. He also faces separate charges of bribing a former CIA official, Dustin "Dusty" Foggo, to get contracts.

The Rams plop into today's wild-card playoff round with all the grace of a face-first mudslide. They took a season to the ledge--coming one, last-second Steve Grogan completion from elimination--so why not take the postseason there, too? You don't dig into the vaults at NFL Films searching for ways to describe the Rams, you go to amusement parks. "Out of control," is the way Coach John Robinson puts it. And he's in charge.

Randall Cunningham is a good 6-feet 4-inches tall. He is wiry, slim-hipped and neatly packed. He isn't skinny, but there's no way he weighs 200 pounds. Somebody's basketball prodigy for sure? Nope. Guessed wrong. This is Randall Cunningham, quarterback, the man who has succeeded the injured Ron Jaworski as the field leader of the Philadelphia Eagles. A second-year pro, Cunningham, 23, has opened a dandy lead in this year's race for the club's coveted triple crown.

Keith Byars ran for his second touchdown of the game with 5:25 left after a botched Denver punt return, lifting the Philadelphia Eagles to a 28-24 victory over the Denver Broncos on Sunday. Randall Cunningham threw two touchdown passes as the Eagles (6-2) won their fourth consecutive game. Denver (6-2) rallied from 14-0 and 21-7 deficits for a 24-21 lead early in the final quarter after two touchdown passes and a 10-yard run by John Elway.

It's deja vu all over again. Within the last week, two Orange County Republican congressmen made Solomonic peace, and one of them, Robert Dornan (R-Garden Grove), agreed not to run against conservative soul mate Dana Rohrabacher (R-Long Beach) in the same newly drawn district. Then, veteran Ventura County Republican Robert J.

Randall Cunningham, 26, the Philadelphia Eagle quarterback whose contract will pay him $20 million through 1995, said he is considering retiring in two years.

SAN DIEGO -- Defense contractor Brent Wilkes emphatically denied Friday bribing former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham as he took the stand in his trial, which had been suspended while wildfires ravaged Southern California. Wilkes' attorney, Mark Geragos, surprised prosecutors by calling Wilkes on the first day of trial in a week. The lawyer had not warned them he would be calling his client and had not hinted in earlier hearings that Wilkes would testify. "Did you ever bribe him?"

Thirteen House members plan to fight subpoenas issued to them in the federal trial of a defense contractor accused of bribing jailed former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Rancho Santa Fe). An aide to Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.), one of the subpoena recipients, said the House counsel believes that the lawmakers are unlikely to be required to testify and that the subpoenas are "merely a shotgun, grandstanding legal tactic."

An internal investigation that the House Intelligence Committee has refused to make public portrays the panel as embarrassingly entangled in the Randy "Duke" Cunningham bribery scandal. The report, a declassified version of which was obtained by the Los Angeles Times, describes the committee as a dysfunctional entity that served as a crossroads for almost every major figure in the ongoing criminal probe by the Justice Department.

A federal appeals court said Friday that it would hear arguments on whether to unseal records of secret court proceedings linked to the government's bribery case against associates of jailed former Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham. The 9th District Court of Appeals entered the case of New York financier Thomas Kontogiannis, who pleaded guilty in closed court in February to illegally helping finance the congressman's purchase of a $2.5-million Rancho Santa Fe mansion.

With disgraced ex-California Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham eligible to collect a congressional pension from behind bars, the Senate on Friday voted to deny taxpayer-funded retirement benefits to lawmakers convicted in the future of serious ethics offenses.

In addition to the other corrupt dealings that forced his resignation from Congress, former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham used his position on the House Intelligence Committee to steer more than $70 million in federal funds to companies run by cronies, according to a new report by the House panel. The document expands the scope of the Cunningham bribery scandal to one of the most sensitive committee assignments in Congress.

Philadelphia Eagle quarterback Randall Cunningham won the Maxwell Club's NFL player-of-the-year award for the second time, the first player to receive the award more than once since Baltimore's John Unitas. Art Shell of the Raiders won the club's Earle (Greasy) Neale Award as NFL coach of the year.

The estranged wife of disgraced former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham has agreed to forfeit $760,000 to the IRS from the sale of the couple's Rancho Santa Fe home, acknowledging that they had financed the house, in part, with more than $1 million in bribe money, authorities said Friday. Additionally, Nancy Cunningham signed an agreement admitting that she had tax violations and will pay $1.6 million in taxes and penalties.

The wife of disgraced former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham felt deceived about the extent of her now-estranged husband's corruption, she said in her first public interview since the scandal broke last year. Nancy Cunningham told New Republic magazine that she didn't question junkets paid for by defense contractors because other senior congressional figures, including Speaker Dennis Hastert, joined in. "How can it be illegal or unethical if the most important man in Congress is doing it?"