ESPN.com released their list of the greatest player to be selected at each NFL Draft slot of all-time, with 12 New England ...

Ironically, Elway was the No. 1 pick by the Baltimore Colts in 1983, but he was traded to the Broncos because he made it ...

In 1981 the legislature enshrined Earl Campbell as an Official State Hero Of Texas. Only three other favorite sons—Davy Crockett, Stephen F. Austin, and Sam Houston—had been previous ...

Earl Campbell said doctors described his nerve problem as "C.O.I.D.P." — perhaps meaning CIDP, or chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy.

Earl Campbell’s first agent remembers that when he journeyed to Tyler to get Ann Campbell’s permission to represent her John Henry of a son, he could feel the wind blowing inside the house.

Earl Campbell was selected as the No. 1 overall pick in the 1978 NFL Draft by the Houston Oilers. Campbell, a Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Texas, went on to have a Hall of Fame career.

1/26/2004--Earl Campbell and Bum Phillips are two of 41 honored for Super Bowl XXXVIII-A Houston Salute honoring Houston-area sports legends at Reliant Arena Monday evening, Jan. 26, 2004, in Houston.

Campbell was a bruising 22-year-old senior halfback in '77, a 5-foot-11 human bowling ball with 36-inch thighs and 4.6 speed. "The Tyler Rose" weighed 220 that season, down from the 245 he'd ...

In his prime, Earl Campbell had no peer. The Campbell I remember was an 18-wheeler roaring down a steep grade, double-clutching, mudflaps flapping, horn blaring. He was King of the Road.

When her husband died 13 years earlier, in 1966, Ann Campbell had two dollars in cash, a rose farm to tend and all those children to support — including 11 year-old Earl, destined to be a ...

Asher Price is an American-Statesman reporter whose book, "Earl Campbell: Yards After Contact," will be published in September by UT Press.In honor of Mother's Day, he put together a condensed ...