The Irish defense, led by coordinator Kent Baer, quickly earned the moniker “Bend but Don’t Break” and, at times, “Break You ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BERKELEY, Calif. — Tyrone Willingham walked briskly out of our lives, the most defiant failure west of the Oval Office. After a season of nothingness, the most thorough humiliation in 119 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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… ...