The Detroit Lions lost another star to early retirement. Four-time Pro Bowl center Frank Ragnow announced Monday he's retiring after seven NFL seasons, and he now joins the likes of Hall of Fame ...

The award has a long and distinguished history, as historian John Turney notes in this salute to the Bengals' quarterback.

Gale Sayers, the "Kansas Comet," established himself throughout ... and had an abbreviated seven-year NFL career that was cut short by a knee injury. He led the league in rushing in 1966 and 1969. He ...

Donation Options Search Search Search The Sun-Times’ back page told the sad story of Gale Sayers’ injury against the San Francisco 49ers on Nov. 10, 1968. Share Bears Hall of Fame running back ...

CHICAGO – Gale Sayers, the dazzling and elusive running ... his comeback from a serious knee injury to lead the league in rushing, and becoming the youngest player inducted into the Pro Football ...

And so to me, Gale Sayers was the first football player who really humanized football players. You had catharsis for his injury. You saw his tears in this movie. And here at the end, he dies from CTE.

CHICAGO — Gale Sayers, the dazzling and elusive running back who entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame despite the briefest of careers and whose fame extended far beyond the ...

CHICAGO Gale Sayers, the dazzling and elusive running ... his comeback from a serious knee injury to lead the league in rushing, and becoming the youngest player inducted into the Pro Football ...

They would look for Brian Piccolo and up would show Gale Sayers.” Off the field, Sayers and Piccolo had an unbreakable bond. When Sayers battled what could have been a career-ending knee injury, it ...