On Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017, I made an appointment to meet with former Colorado football coach Bill McCartney at a Starbucks inside a Safeway supermarket near Denver. I was a reporter with USA TODAY, ...

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — The gaze of Bill McCartney will now be watching over Colorado practices after former players donated a bronze statue of the late Colorado football coach. Located in the northeast ...

BOULDER — There were Nebraska jokes. Of course there were jabs at the Cornhuskers. “He wasn’t too fond of Lincoln,” voice of the Buffs Mark Johnson quipped during the public memorial service for Hall ...

Bill McCartney, the former University of Colorado football coach who became a prominent religious figure in the 1990s after founding the Promise Keepers movement, died Friday at the age of 84. “It is ...

Bill McCartney, the legendary former head coach of Colorado who led the Buffaloes to a national championship, died on Friday. In the wake of his passing, social media was flooded by messages of ...

Bill McCartney, who coached Colorado to its only football national championship in 1990, has died. He was 84. The charismatic figure known as Coach Mac died Friday night “after a courageous journey ...

In December of 1990, Colorado head football coach Bill McCartney and his quarterbacks coach, Gary Barnett, went to Longmont High School to watch a player they were recruiting. CU had wrapped up a 10-1 ...

As the west stands of the CU Events Center filled up on Wednesday morning, it served as a reminder of the impact Bill McCartney had during his 84 years on this planet... As the west stands of the CU ...

The University of Colorado is honoring former football head coach Bill McCartney in a free memorial event that will be open to the public. McCartney's family said he died peacefully last week after a ...

A regal new statue of Bill McCartney outside Folsom Field can either haunt Deion Sanders like a ghost or be a guide for how the CU football team can return to glory. “You’ve got the right man. I ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If Colorado ever meets Nebraska on a football field again, it won’t feel as important anymore because Bill McCartney won’t be there to watch it. As part of ...