Every year, the Chicago Bears hand out the Brian Piccolo Award. To some, Piccolo is a beloved figure, immortalized in a TV movie — make that two TV movies. But to many more, he might be no more ...

"There's no question that Brian Piccolo's story was amplified by the movie. And now generations later, you don't know how many guys who ordinarily would be loath to admit that they shed a tear ...

It’s lasted 50 years. Airing on ABC November 30, 1971, the film chronicled the brief but intense relationship between Brian Piccolo, a white player for the Chicago Bears, and Gale Sayers ...

This week 52 years ago, former Bears running back Brian Piccolo died of embryonal cell carcinoma — a rare testicular cancer. Because of his extended battle with the terminal disease (which ...

Wearing a Chicago Bears cap, the Rev. Larry Sullivan, right, pastor of Christ the King Church in Chicago’s Beverly community, recalls Brian Piccolo on the 50th anniversary of his death Tuesday.

When Bears running back Brian Piccolo was battling cancer that would ultimately end his life on June 16, 1970, he collaborated with Chicago sportscaster Jeannie Morris on a book about his life and his ...

The Chicago Bears paid special tribute to Brian Piccolo on Thursday, as all 90 players wore No. 41 jerseys during their minicamp practice. Piccolo, a Bears running back from 1966 to 1969 ...

How much Bears management thought about linebacker T.J Edwards became apparent last week when they gave him $20 million over two years in a contract extension. How much the Bears players thought ...

LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- On the final day of mandatory minicamp, all 90 Chicago Bears players wore No. 41 jerseys at practice to honor Brian Piccolo, who died 52 years ago Thursday from cancer.

Brian Piccolo will be hosting a spectacular evening at the Salón Varietés on Saturday, May 31, fundraising for the wonderful ...

Since Piccolo's death in 1970, the Bears have awarded an annual "Brian Piccolo Award" to a rookie and veteran (starting in 1992) who best exemplifies the "courage, loyalty, teamwork, dedication ...

How much the Bears players thought about Edwards, a native Chicagoan, became apparent when he was announced as the first back-to-back veteran winner of the Brian Piccolo Award since Olin Kreutz in ...