Jim Brown, the NFL Hall of Famer and Civil Rights activist who turned to acting and appeared in films and TV shows ranging from The Dirty Dozen and I Spy to Draft Day, Mars Attacks! and The A-Team, ...

*(CNN) — Jim Brown, the transcendent athlete-actor-activist who ran roughshod over the NFL and its record books in the 1950s and 1960s and won multiple MVP awards before retiring abruptly at age 30 to ...

Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown, the unstoppable running back who retired at the peak of his brilliant career to become an actor as well as a prominent civil rights advocate during the 1960s, has ...

A multi-talented athlete cast in the mold of the legendary Jim Thorpe — he’s in three halls of fame — Jim Brown was best known as a football player. Perhaps the football player. A fullback for the ...

Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown, the unstoppable running back who retired at the peak of his brilliant career to become an actor as well as a prominent civil rights advocate during the 1960s, has ...

Jim Brown, who was often called the greatest football player of his time but who gave up the sport at the peak of his career in the 1960s, declaring himself a “highly paid, overglamorized gladiator,” ...

Reactions to the death of Jim Brown, former NFL star, actor and activist: “To the world, he was an activist, actor, and football star. To our family, he was a loving husband, father, and grandfather.

Jim Brown, the former NFL star turned Hollywood actor, has died at the age of 87. His wife, Monique Brown, announced the news on Jim’s Instagram page on May 19, 2023 with a statement that accompanied ...

CLEVELAND — Jim Brown was virtually unstoppable in every arena he entered. Whether on the football field, in Hollywood or the battle for civil rights, Brown was a force. One of the greatest players in ...

[Editor’s note: This story was written by Tim Layden during his 25-year career as a senior writer at SI. He is currently a writer-at-large for NBC Sports.] On the occasion of a man’s death, society ...