One of the most successful players in Major League Baseball was born in Jefferson County on May 6, 1931.Willie Mays, "The Say Hey Kid," started his career with the Birmingham Black Barons at Rickwood ...

By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — Hall of Fame coach Don Nelson is clearly not a fan of how the Dallas Mavericks traded Luka Dončić earlier this year, and he found a novel way of expressing his ...

Nelson and Daly were close friends. They went head-to-head 41 times as coaches: Nelson’s teams went 21-20 in those games. “Chuck was an absolute genius in all facets of the game and life,” Nelson said ...

Nelson kept that top spot for nearly 12 years before now-retired San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich passed him in March 2022. Nelson is one of only two coaches in NBA history to have at least 250 ...

Stanley Nelson, the editor of a small-town weekly newspaper in Louisiana, exposed secrets about unsolved murders by the Ku Klux Klan. Nelson died this week at the age of 69.

When the FBI released a list of unsolved murders from the civil rights era, journalist Stanley Nelson said he read the names and felt shame. It was 2007, and Nelson was the editor of a small weekly ...

Nelson grew frustrated with the U.S. Department of Justice, which put out the original list of unsolved murders and then, he felt, never seriously investigated. Nelson was named a Pulitzer Prize ...

Pepé Willie, mentor to Prince and Morris Day, dies at 76. The ever-smiling godfather of the Minneapolis Sound helped musicians for love, not money. By Jon Bream. The Minnesota Star Tribune.