1936: Ray Nitschke is born in Elmwood Park, Illinois ... but sealed his legend two weeks later in Super Bowl III. 1982: Bear Bryant retires and unfortunately comes close to predicting his fate ...

Now imagine a guy that can carry the nickname Bear," says Joe Namath on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series. Bryant's first, and only, priority was winning. After breaking the record for career ...

I hope you’re not reading this while eating, because I can’t start a piece about Elmwood and Bryant without a reminder of how far we’ve come since the days of the mysterious brown fluid.

The debut Dec. 14 of "The Junction Boys," ESPN's movie about Bear Bryant and his first preseason training camp as head coach of Texas A & M, got me thinking about Bryant's role as a historic ...