As a senior, Hornung played mostly quarterback and safety in the one-platoon era (1953-63) of college football. In the ...

On draft day, the Dallas Cowboys, an NFL expansion team in 1960, were 3-9 and facing a fourth straight losing season. They had gone winless their first year, 0-11-1, and followed that with 4-9-1 and 5 ...

When Ken Scott, 90, talks about the old days, he takes out a picture of his youth baseball team featuring his close childhood friend Rufus Mathews. “When people talk about sports,” his wife ...

But Rufus Mathews, a 91-year-old Black man, who was probably the first high school All-American football player from Rockford, tells the same tale. More: Rockford West's Bennie Horton was NIC-10's ...

“Football threatened to become an advanced ... Terry Brennan was an unlikely coaching visionary. An All-American halfback at Notre Dame in the late 1940s, Brennan majored in philosophy before ...

Gifford was a two-way star for the New York Giants as a halfback ... it is still one of the iconic football cards of the 1950s. While the Topps All-American card is not as sought-after as his ...

Kordell Jackson isn't standing pat. The 25-year-old American defensive back started 16 games as a rookie last season with the ...

Born Feb. 20, 1963, in Leeds, Charles Barkley graduated from Leeds High School in 1981. Barkley was a standout at Auburn University and in the NBA. He earned 11 NBA All-Star games, was All-Star MVP in ...

It was always going to be about the offensive line, the group that fell short as quarterback C.J. Stroud was under siege ...