A half-century later, "Brian’s Song" endures as one of TV’s most beloved sports films. Its legend was reinforced in 2020, when Sayers’ died at 77, prompting Piccolo's daughter Lori to ...

Brian Piccolo didn't live long enough to fulfill ... treatments and spent Christmas at home with his wife and three young daughters. On April 9, 1970, his left lung and left breast were removed.

one of Brian Piccolo’s three daughters. “He used to joke with our grandma and always say, ‘Grace, one of these days I’m gonna be famous.’ And she’d hit him and say, ‘Oh, Brian.’ ...

I love Brian Piccolo, and I’d like all of you to love him too. Tonight, when you hit your knees, please ask God to love him.” Brian needed to see his daughters, whom he had been separated from ...

Tuesday marked 50 years since Chicago Bears running back Brian Piccolo died ... the Beverly neighborhood where Piccolo once lived with his wife and three daughters. Piccolo, who was born in ...

unlikely friendship between Chicago Bears' teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers. Only 17 months earlier, Piccolo had died of cancer at age 26, leaving behind a wife and three daughters.

Fifty years later, it has sunk into obscurity, along with “Brian Piccolo: A Short Season,” a book written by Jeannie Morris, a journalist and wife of Johnny Morris, one of Piccolo’s teammates.