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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The athlete's friendship with fellow teammate Brian Piccolo inspired the TV movie Brian's Song Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...