He was also the man whose fate was the envy of no one. Nile Kinnick is someone who reminds us how overused the word "hero" is in sport, since he is one of the few who actually fits the description.

Far East Division I boys basketball finals have definitely been fit to put grey hair on Nile C. Kinnick coach Robert Stovall. “I’ve had an upset stomach all week,” Stovall said after his Red ...

What does Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz have against Nile Kinnick? Or, to put it another way, why is Ferentz reluctant to have one of his players breaking one of Kinnick’s records?

Tom Harkin about Nile Kinnick, the 1939 Heisman Trophy winner. He's the son every mother wanted to have, the boy every father wanted his daughter to marry. He was also the man whose fate was the ...