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FILE - Miami coach Jimmy Johnson, center, is hugged by his sons, Chad, left, and Brent, rightk, while walking off the field following the team's win over Nebraska in the Orange Bowl college football game in Miami, Jan. 2, 1989. Johnson won two Super Bowls as coach of the Dallas Cowboys and a national championship at Miami. In his view, Johnson’s biggest success has nothing to do with football. The 79-year-old Johnson describes in “Swagger,” his memoir that released on Tuesday, how his addiction to football and winning caused him to never have a family dinner. His two sons played football but Dad never saw them play a full game. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)
Hall of Fame coach Jimmy Johnson reflects on his career

By Rob Maaddi Nov. 16, 2022 06:00 AM EST

USA Today's Epstein wins award as emerging NFL writer

By The Associated Press May. 17, 2022 01:11 PM EDT
Jori Epstein, who covers the Dallas Cowboys and the NFL for USA Today, has been selected as the 2022 Terez A. Paylor Emerging Writer Award winner by the Professional...

Washington Commanders guard Chris Paul works during a rookie minicamp practice at the team's NFL football training facility, Friday, May 6, 2022 in Ashburn, Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Other Chris Paul making his own name on, off football field

By Stephen Whyno May. 11, 2022 04:04 PM EDT

Sportscaster Kenny Albert will have memoir published in 2023

Apr. 21, 2022 09:50 AM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Sportscaster Kenny Albert will cover a lot of territory in a memoir scheduled for next year. Albert, who has worked on everything from...

FILE - In this Dec. 19, 1948, file photo, Cleveland Browns fullback Marion Motley, right, stands with coach Paul Brown after a football game against Buffalo in Cleveland. Brown never saw color, and in 1946 he recruited Motley and Bill Willis for his Cleveland team in the All-America Football Conference. (AP Photo/Harold Valentine, File)
Forgotten First: A look at four (and more) NFL trailblazers

By Barry Wilner Sep. 14, 2021 02:11 PM EDT

FILE - In this March 30, 2004, file photo, National Football League commissioner Paul Tagliabue smiles at a reporter questions during the NFL annual meeting in Palm Beach, Fla. Tagliabue's new memoir “Jersey City to America's Game,” sticks to his journey and lets the facts speak for him. It's a terrific ride, a look into the inner workings of the nation's most popular sport. (AP Photo/Steve Mitchell)
Tagliabue memoir a strong look into the NFL's inner workings

By Barry Wilner Aug. 30, 2021 03:40 AM EDT

FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2018, file photo, former NFL football quarterback Colin Kaepernick smiles on stage during W.E.B. Du Bois Medal ceremonies at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. Kaepernick will release a series of books through the children’s publisher Scholastic, starting with a picture story “I Color Myself Different” coming out in April, (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
Colin Kaepernick picture book to come out in April

Jul. 15, 2021 02:21 PM EDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017 file photo, NFL broadcaster Bill Cowher speaks on set before an NFL football game between the Oakland Raiders and the Kansas City Chiefs in Oakland, Calif. Next to seeing the Pittsburgh Steelers get back to the Super Bowl, Sunday’s matchup has many personal ties for CBS “The NFL Today” analyst Bill Cowher. The Hall of Fame coach had Tampa Bay coach Bruce Arians on his staff in Pittsburgh and was the defensive coordinator with the Kansas City Chiefs for three seasons.(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
NFL Hall of Fame coach Bill Cowher has memoir out in June

Feb. 05, 2021 08:30 AM EST

NFL's 1st & Future to award $150,000 on television show

By Barry Wilner Jan. 26, 2021 12:00 PM EST
The NFL is bringing its awards for novel advancements in athletes’ safety and performance to television. Next Tuesday night during Super...

FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2019, file photo, free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick arrives for a workout for NFL football scouts and media in Riverdale, Ga. Kaepernick’s publishing company is putting out a collection of 30 essays over the next four weeks about abolition, police and prisons. The project is titled: “Abolition For the People: The Movement For A Future Without Policing & Prisons.” Kaepernick envisioned and curated this project following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. (AP Photo/Todd Kirkland, File)
Kaepernick's company publishing essays on policing, prisons

Oct. 06, 2020 12:33 PM EDT

FILE - This Dec. 30, 2012, file photo shows a Buffalo Bills helmet displaying a WWFD (West Webster Fire Department) decal in memory of two fallen West Webster, N.Y., firefighters who lost their lives in a shooting and a S.H.E.S. decal in honor of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, before an NFL football game against the New York Jets in Orchard Park, N.Y. The NFL is planning to allow players to have decals on the back of their helmets bearing names or initials of victims of systemic racism and police violence. The league has been in talks with individual players and their union since June about somehow honoring such victims. (AP Photo/Gary Wiepert, File)
Jets-Bills

Jul. 21, 2020 01:34 PM EDT

FILER - In this Feb. 21, 2020, file photo, Indiana Pacers guard Victor Oladipo (4) goes to the basket against New York Knicks center Mitchell Robinson (23) in the first half of an NBA basketball game at Madison Square Garden in New York. The Pacers will finish this season without Oladipo after the two-time All-Star decided to sit out because of the risk of re-injuring his right knee. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
The Latest: Pacers' Oladipo to sit out restart of season

By The Associated Press Jul. 03, 2020 10:56 AM EDT

FILE - In this Dec, 6, 1985, file photo, actor Gene Hackman gives fictional Hickory High basketball players instructions during filming of the final game of the movie "Hoosiers" at Hinkle Fieldhouse on the Butler University campus in Indianapolis. “Hoosiers” shot all the way to No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 of best sports movies, a one-of-a-kind poll from the news organization known for its rankings of college teams. Released in 1986 and starring Gene Hackman, “Hoosiers” led the tally in results released Friday, April 17, 2020, receiving 46 votes from a 70-person global panel of sports writers and editors who work for the AP. (AP Photo/Tom Strickland, File)
Iconic lines, other info on sports movies in the AP Top 25

By Mark Long And Howard Fendrich Apr. 24, 2020 01:15 PM EDT

Kaepernick to release memoir through his publishing company

Associated Press Feb. 13, 2020 12:30 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) — Colin Kaepernick can add author and publisher to his resume. The former NFL quarterback who knelt during the national...

In this Jan. 29, 2020 photo, a man makes a bet on the upcoming Super Bowl at Bally's casino in Atlantic City, N.J. Business was brisk at sports books around the country on Super Bowl Sunday, with customers risking money on everything from the coin toss at the start of the game, to the color of the Gatorade dumped on the winning coach, Kansas City's Andy Reid, at the end of it. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
Super Bowl betting brings big business to sports books

By Wayne Parry Feb. 03, 2020 08:18 PM EST

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2009, file photo, Peter Fonda, poses atop a Harley-Davidson motorcycle in Glendale, Calif. Fonda, the son of a Hollywood legend who became a movie star in his own right both writing and starring in counterculture classics like "Easy Rider," has died. His family says in a statement that Fonda died Aug. 16, 2019, at his home in Los Angeles. He was 79. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2019

By Bernard Mcghee Dec. 23, 2019 10:13 AM EST

FILE - In this May 15, 2019, file photo, Juice WRLD performs in concert during his "Death Race for Love Tour" at The Skyline Stage at The Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia. The Chicago-area rapper, whose real name is Jarad A. Higgins, was pronounced dead Dec. 8 after a "medical emergency'' at Chicago's Midway International Airport, according to authorities. (Photo by Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP, File)
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2019

By Bernard Mcghee Dec. 16, 2019 12:47 PM EST

FILE - In this 1936, file photo, Johnny Mize of the St. Louis Cardinals swings during a baseball game. (AP Photo/File)
Essay: What is America's game? 3 sports, 3 American eras

By Ted Anthony Oct. 25, 2019 03:25 AM EDT

Tony and Lauren Dungy pen a fourth children's book

By The Associated Press Sep. 13, 2019 12:00 PM EDT
Tony Dungy was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in part because of his contributions to football as a whole. Yes, he was a player on a Super...

This combination photo shows actors, from left, Billy Crudup, Tony Shalhoub and Zachary Levi who will participate in a reading of Don DeLillo's "Pafko at the Wall," a fictionalization of the 1951 playoff game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants. The reading will take place Oct. 3 at Manhattan's 92nd Street Y. (AP Photo)
Billy Crudup among readers for tribute to DeLillo classic

Sep. 09, 2019 12:00 PM EDT