Tyrone Willingham is the first African-American head coach at Notre Dame and one of only four black head coaches in Division I-A college football.

His eyes told him one thing but his frozen fingers and toes sent another message altogether.“It was a perfect blue sky,” Notre Dame football coach Tyrone Willingham recalled.

Tyrone Willingham was a dead man walking even as he prepared his Washington football team to play Notre Dame. According to UW president Mark Emmert, the decision to fire the coach was made shortly ...

On Monday, in his last week as Washington’s football coach, Tyrone Willingham was asked if he planned to have any heart-to-heart talks with his team. “There will be no real sentimental ...

I wished Tyrone Willingham well. I believe he is a generally well-intentioned person with good moral values. To his credit, he has never said anything against Notre Dame, who finished paying his ...

Tyrone Willingham is not oblivious to the external pressures that follow the head football coach at Notre Dame. He knows expectations are almost impossibly high, the schedule almost impossibly ...

I was going over the roster the day Tyrone Willingham was hired and realized that he had a very difficult job on his hands. It was going to take anyone four to five years to clean up this mess ...

New Washington coach Tyrone Willingham said this week he thinks the school is getting "an excellent reception" from recruits, despite the late change in coaching staffs.

At least the news conferences have become more succinct. When Tyrone Willingham was fired at Notre Dame four years ago, athletic director Kevin White – trying to mitigate what many found ...

Washington Coach Tyrone Willingham on Monday was fired effective the end of the season, meaning seventh-ranked USC will face a Huskies team with a lame-duck leader on Saturday at the Coliseum.

Being Notre Dame’s first black head coach in any sport would be daunting enough, but when Tyrone Willingham took the helm at the nation’s most revered football program, he was also sadd… ...