New Inductees To Sports Hall Of Fame
DETROIT (WWJ) – The Michigan Sports Hall of Fame is about to expand its membership. The 55th class of inductees include: U-M’s Lloyd Carr who served as the head football coach of the Wolverines for...
View ArticleJerome Bettis To Be Inducted Into Michigan Sports Hall Of Fame
NOVI (WWJ) – Detroit native and NFL great Jerome Bettis will be inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame during Thursday’s ceremonies in Novi. Bettis ended his career after winning the Super Bowl...
View ArticleConstruction Underway On Site Of Former Uniroyal Tire Plant
DETROIT (WWJ) – The long-vacant former Uniroyal Tire plant property along Detroit’s riverfront is starting to look like a viable piece of land again. WWJ’s Mike Campbell reports that the redemption of...
View Article4 Super Bowl Champs Are Hall Finalists
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Chris Doleman is not one of the four Pro Football Hall of Fame finalists who won a Super Bowl. He doesn’t believe that should affect his chances of being elected to the shrine. Nor...
View ArticleStoney: The Bus Imagines Hines Ward As A Lion
Detroit’s own Jerome Bettis joined our show on Friday to chat about a myriad of subjects including Peyton Manning,bounties,his alma mater,fried cheeseburgers ,and whether Hines Ward would look good in...
View ArticleFormer NFL Star Bettis Tours New Detroit School
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) — Former NFL star and Detroit native Jerome Bettis Thursday morning toured a new, $21.8 million city school with a group of parents. They got a look Thursday morning at the Mackenzie...
View ArticleTop 5 Athletes Who Deserve To Be In The Hall Of Fame
By Jason Iannone » More columns When a Hall of Fame inducts somebody, usually they get that induction right. Champions, points leaders, innovators in their field — rarely does a schlub somehow sneak...
View ArticleDetroit Native Jerome Bettis Among Those Voted To Pro Football Hall Of Fame
HOWARD FENDRICH, AP Pro Football Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Junior Seau, Jerome Bettis, Tim Brown, Charles Haley and Will Shields have been elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The class of 2015 also...
View ArticleJeff Saturday, Jerome Bettis And Mark Brunell Write Recruiting Letters To...
By: Mike Sullivan @mikesullivan By now, you’ve probably heard of the Jordan Leopold recruiting story that took place yesterday. Leopold is a 34-year-old defenseman for the Columbus Blue Jackets, and he...
View ArticleJerome Bettis Says He Sold Crack, Shot At Drug Dealers While Growing Up In...
By Dan Jenkins @DanTJenkins Growing up in Detroit in the 1980s, NFL Hall of Famer Jerome Bettis was ranked by many as the top football player in the state while he attended Mackenzie High School....
View ArticleBus Stop; Steelers Great Jerome Bettis Bulls Way Into Hall
WILL GRAVES, AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — By the end of 2004, Jerome Bettis was done. Finished. Burned out. A dozen years in the NFL, most of them as the perpetually smiling blue-collared soul of...
View ArticleDetroit Native Jerome Bettis Enters Hall Of Fame
CANTON, Ohio (AP) — The Bus has finally arrived in Canton. Pittsburgh Steelers running back Jerome Bettis entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday night. The sixth-leading rusher in NFL...
View ArticleSteelers Great Bettis Leads Eclectic Hall Of Fame Class
WILL GRAVES, AP Sports Writer CANTON, Ohio (AP) — The humbled men in gold jackets entering football immortality were unmistakable. So was the endless sea of twirling yellow Terrible Towels there to...
View ArticleSB 40: Steelers, ‘Bus’ Take The Title In Motor City
The Associated Press Super Bowl 40 Feb. 5, 2006 At Detroit_68,206 Seattle 3..0..7..0_10 Pittsburgh 0..7..7..7_21 In what almost amounted to a home game for the Steelers — and was a homecoming for their...
View ArticleFord Freedom Awards: Honoring Men Of Courage
DETROIT (WWJ) – A black tie affair in Detroit honoring African American men for being positive role models here and across the nation. The focus of the annual Ford Freedom Award event in Detroit this...
View ArticleJerome Bettis Will Make You Feel Great About Your Golf Swing [VIDEO]
STATELINE, Nev. (AP) — Mark Mulder rallied Sunday at Edgewood Tahoe to successfully defend his title in the American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament. The former pitcher birdied seven of...
View ArticleDetroit’s Jerome “The Bus” Bettis & Rev. Jesse Jackson Receive XCEL Award
NEW YORK, July 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — BLACK ENTERPRISE will present its highest honor in recognition of the achievements of black men when it presents the XCEL Awards at the 2019 Black Men XCEL on...
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