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May 13, 2018 · As Howard Bryant, the great sportswriter, said, he said: Jim Brown is heroic, but he's no hero. And I think that's the best way to look at his life." Interview Highlights. On why he...
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said "Jim Brown was a gifted athlete — one of the most dominant players to ever step on any athletic field — but also a cultural figure who helped promote change." LeBron James , an NBA star, wrote in tribute that "We lost a hero today.
May 19, 2023 · 19 May 2023. By Chloe Kim,BBC News. Getty Images. Jim Brown, the legendary American footballer who became a Hollywood action hero and civil rights activist, has died at the age of 87. The Pro...
- A Superb Athlete
- Not Just Running Through
- A Proud Man Gets Tough
- Athlete Activists
- A Different Tack
- Holding Him Accountable
Jim Brown called it the most beautiful game he ever played. A blend of speed, quickness, intelligence. His abilities landed him in the Hall of Fame, the first Black player inducted. For lacrosse. It seemed incongruous, compared to his defining and violent sport of football. But it was a testament to Brown's superb athleticism– he competed in four s...
There are defensive men in the league who have dedicated themselves, their souls and their bodies, to a holy war against Jimmy Brown. None of them yet has won the crusade. With his chiseled six-foot-two-inch, 230-pound body, Brown sneered at the idea of running out of bounds on a play. But his rare combination of power and speed and quickness meant...
It was the summer of 1966. Brown was 30, still in his playing prime. The previous year he'd won his third Associated Press, NFL MVP award. Brown also was an aspiring movie actor, and that summer he was in England shooting the World War II film, "The Dirty Dozen." When production was delayed, it meant Brown would be late to Cleveland for training ca...
Several top Black athletes of the era, including basketball stars Bill Russell and Lew Alcindor, who later changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, joined Brown in a gathering to discuss the situation involving boxing champ Muhammad Ali. Months before, Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title and faced charges for refusing to fightin the Vietnam W...
But Jim Brown took a different tack. He didn't believe in the power of marching and protest. In a 2010 interview, Brown said he admired civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s courage and sincerity. But he disagreed with King's strategy of passive resistance. "I didn't think that non-violence was a solution to the problem of inequality in Ame...
Brown effectively preached to others about empowerment and personal responsibility. But he appeared to ignore those ideals in multiple abusive relationshipswith women. Between 1965 and 1999, Brown was accused, tried and even jailed once, for multiple incidents of sexual and physical assault. These included the infamous 1968 fight in Hollywood betwe...
May 19, 2023 · Jim Brown, the legendary Cleveland Browns fullback who also became known beyond his NFL stardom as a Hollywood action hero and civil rights activist, died May 18, 2023, at his home in Los...
May 19, 2023 · Jim Brown, the Cleveland Browns fullback who was acclaimed as one of the greatest players in pro football history, and who remained in the public eye as a Hollywood action hero and a civil...
May 20, 2023 · NFL. Jim Brown was a confounding knot of athleticism, activism and violence. Perspective by Jerry Brewer. Columnist. May 20, 2023 at 5:10 a.m. EDT. Jim Brown, one of the 10 most important...
