As memories and stories of Gale Sayers’ time with the Jayhawks came pouring in following his death Wednesday morning, the Kansas athletic department announced plans for a more permanent tribute in the ...

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Gale Sayers, whose brief but brilliant football career was immortalized both in grainy NFL footage and on the silver screen, has died. He was 77. Sayers died Wednesday, according to the Pro Football ...

LAKE FOREST – It was a time which the past and the present of the franchise got to interact like at no other time in history. In honor of the team’s 100th anniversary, the Bears had a three-day ...

CHICAGO – When someone of his prominence passes away, it’s a loss felt well beyond the team to which he played. That’s the case for legendary Chicago Bears running back Gale Sayers, who died at the ...

Gale Sayers, one of the most electric NFL players of the 1960s, has died. He was 77 years old. The Pro Football Hall of Famer was a brilliant running back and returner who spent only seven years in ...

The news of “Kansas Comet” Gale Sayers’ death reached former KU Jayhawks football coach Mark Mangino early Wednesday morning in Mangino’s Western Pennsylvania home. “I had a cup of coffee, grabbed the ...

Condolences poured out on social media from sports figures mourning the death of Hall of Famer Gale Sayersat the age of 77. Nicknamed the Kansas Comet, Sayers was voted into the Pro Football Hall of ...