Five years ago on Sunday, the basketball world lost a giant. On Jan. 26, 2020, Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others died in a tragic helicopter crash outside of Los Angeles.

He was 82 years old. Battle, who played for Paul 'Bear' Bryant at Alabama, winning the school's first national championship, became the youngest head coach in college football history at Tennessee ...

The impact of Bryant’s career, and the ‘Mamba Mentality,’ carry on in the kind of way that almost makes you forget that he’s ...

Jan. 14, 1946: Paul “Bear” Bryant is hired as the head football coach for the University of Kentucky. Considered by many to be one of the sport’s greatest football coaches ever, Bryant was ...

alongside his 13-year-old daughter Gianna Bryant and seven others. The tragic death of the Los Angeles Lakers icon, who was posthumously inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in ...

Now imagine a guy that can carry the nickname Bear," says Joe Namath on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series. Bryant's first, and only, priority was winning. After breaking the record for career ...

The award celebrates Coach Bear Bryant’s legacy and raises awareness and critical funds for scientific research to eliminate needless suffering and death from cardiovascular disease and stroke ...

The award celebrates Bear Bryant’s legacy and raises awareness and critical funds for scientific research to eliminate needless suffering and death from cardiovascular disease and stroke ...