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Respect and moral authority have made Tony Dungy a powerful sports figure. But do those seeking his help come for image laundering or true redemption?

What if a high school played a whole football season and almost nobody came to watch? For one team, it took a coach and a village to save the day.

Charles Rogers was on the fast track to NFL stardom, but drugs and immaturity led to an epic downfall.

Washington's most influential are suddenly taking up hoops, all in hopes of getting a run with President Barack Obama.

NFL ref Ed Hochuli strives for perfection on every play. That made his well-publicized 2008 gaffe almost impossible to bear.

Thirty years ago, he offered Terry Bradshaw a spelling lesson and snorted cocaine during the Super Bowl. Hollywood Henderson comes clean about his flamboyant life.

Six weeks after the JFK assassination, a colossal clash of No. 1 Texas and No. 2 Navy was overshadowed in Dallas.

"Outside the Lines" spends a week with crosstown rivals in San Diego, two football programs in different worlds.

O.J. Simpson apparently has decided he'll try to get out of prison by blaming his former attorney for putting him there instead of blaming the concussions he suffered when he played football. Simpson will walk into a Las Vegas courtroom Monday and tr...

In an exclusive interview, ESPN's Shelley Smith sits down with a close friend of Junior Seau to recount the NFL star's disturbing downward spiral.

Major U.S. men's sports leagues have been preparing for the moment when an active player announces he's gay. It was never a matter of if, but when.

A research report telling Riddell that no football helmet could prevent concussions did not deter Riddell's development of the Revolution or its decision to market the helmet as protection against concussions.

ESPN's enterprise team looks at the importance of the study of the brain of former San Diego linebacker Junior Seau. Seau committed suicide last May 2 at the age of 43. "Outside the Lines" produced this video on the impact of the information from ...

How multiple research groups and the NFL battled over Junior Seau's brain to lead the science of concussions.

Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam, the subject of what the FBI calls "rebate fraud" in the sale of diesel fuel at his 650 Pilot Flying J truck stops, has reached out directly to at least one of his customers and pledged to make things right.