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ESPN.com's Wright Thompson has a story on Billy Varner, who was former Alabama coach Bear Bryant's longtime driver: TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Something important is being lost. Each rising sun takes a little more from the couple who live in the small br...

Thirty years after Bear Bryant's final season, the person who knew him best struggles to remember the man behind the myth. He's not alone.

Longtime readers of this blog will remember the names Guerdwich Montimere (or "Montimer," as his social security card reportedly names him) and Jerry Joseph, and the strange story of a 22-year-old former Florida high school basketball player resurfac...

When Jerry Jones arrived in Odessa, Texas, he was just 15 and an orphan. His basketball coach's wife offered him a mother's love. For all his lies, she didn't take it back, Wright Thompson writes in ESPN The Magazine.

An acclaimed new documentary goes hunting for the lost Dylan.

Is he Guerdwich Montimere? Or is he Jerry Joseph? If only it were that simple.

Ozzie Guillen's controversial comments about Fidel Castro reached every corner of Miami's powerful Cuban community in the week following his apology. What was the reaction here?

We can know everything about golf, but we don't know why some people perform when it matters most, and other people don't.

The Godfather of Soul and the other side of the Masters.

They flocked to No. 10 at Augusta National, smiling and taking pictures and pointing at the site of Rory McIlroy's disaster last year at the Masters.

India cricket star Sachin Tendulkar has been stuck on 99 centuries for a year. When will he ever reach 100?

Turning out the lights: The end of a week, and an era, at Penn State

Joe Paterno's son soaks in the surroundings of grief and finds comfort

The National Championship Game, Louisiana politics, and Edwin Edwards' last campaign.

In defense of a game that lasts five days

One man, trapped between two worlds, still chases his dream