In other region/state news, Norfolk State men’s basketball coach Robert Jones announced that Corey Coffer has joined the ...

Two-time Green Bay Packers Super Bowl champion Steve Wright, the model used for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year trophy, has died, the Packers announced. Wright played nine seasons in the NFL ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Former Green Bay Packers offensive lineman Steve Wright, who was the model for what is now the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year trophy, has died. He was 82. Wright died Sunday at ...

In 1970, Johnny Unitas became the first player to receive that NFL Man of the Year trophy. Walter Payton got the award in 1977, and after he died in 1999 the league changed the award's name to ...

Steve Wright, a lineman who was immortalized in a sculpture that became the NFL’s Walter Payton Man of the Year trophy, has died at the age of 82. Wright started as an offensive tackle at ...

Payton starred for the Chicago Bears from 1975 to 1987 after graduating from Jackson State. At Jackson State, Payton, as a running back, was voted Black College Player of the Year in 1973 and 1974.

Two-time Green Bay Packers Super Bowl champion Steve Wright, the model used for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year trophy, has died, the Packers announced. Wright played nine seasons in the NFL ...

Payton's legacy is aided by his place among the near-mythical 1985 Bears, who won Chicago's first and only (for now, that is) Super Bowl title. Though it was Chicago's dominant '46 defense' that ...

But Walter Payton never reached the end zone in the Bears' 46-10 victory, and that disappointed some fans in the stands who chanted ''Walter, Walter, Walter.'' It also disappointed Payton, he ...