Step back in time for a minute. Recall, if you can, where you were in 1961, or what you have learned about the early 1960s.

It was 50 years ago, and the Civil Rights Movement was just gaining momentum.

In May that year, the Congress on Racial Equality -- CORE...

When the coach, an assistant at South Carolina State, approached me at my book booth at the American Football Coaches Association convention in Dallas a couple of weeks ago, I knew immediately that he, as others before him, wanted me to sign his copy of Eddie Robinson: "...he was the...

The managing editor at the newspaper where I worked about 25 years ago called me into his office one day. He was a man who had a special way with words, and with a withering look of supreme dissatisfaction, told me:

"Denny, I'm tired of dropping rocks down the...

Excused from his lifetime exile for one game by the commissioner of baseball, Pete Rose stepped onto the playing field at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati earlier this month.

It was September 11, 2010, the 25th anniversary of the night he singled to left center at now-demolished Riverfront...

For starters, consider these stats:

Roughly 145 million Americans qualify as obese or overweight, according to the American Heart Association.

Almost 24 million have diabetes -- about 90 percent of them type 2, according to the American Diabetes Association.

And an estimated 15 million play fantasy...

As coaches, Bobby Bowden and the late Eddie Robinson have more in common than just amazing longevity and tremendous success.

In their last seasons Bowden was 80 and Robinson 78, but neither was ready to quit nor felt he should have had to step aside.

The parallel was highlighted...

Watching Jerry Rice's induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame reminded me of a story about the fabled passing attack that enabled him to catch more passes, for more yards and more touchdowns, than any pass receiver in the history of the National Football League.

I heard it from...