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 ...

Fifty-two years after his tragic passing, Brian Piccolo's legacy is still being celebrated by the Chicago Bears. On the anniversary of Piccolo's death Thursday, all 90 players at the Bears' final ...

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 ...

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.

Virginia running back Mike Hollins won the ACC’s Brian Piccolo Award, the conference announced Monday, a little over a year after being severely wounded in a shooting that claimed the lives of ...

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 ...

As he stood at the podium of the Brian Piccolo Chapter’s 50th Annual Scholar-Athlete Banquet at the Bahia Mar on Thursday night, he compared himself to Piccolo as an “underdog.” ...

Ali Solo led Western to state for the third time in her career while Brunette led Aquinas to its first state final four since ...