There is very little Sweetness in Walter Payton`s hometown this week. No banners. No Chicago Bear caps. No displays in store windows or the two high schools he attended. No street or athletic ...

They're walking in the footsteps of Walter Payton ... powerful words still define the man we know as "Sweetness." Chicago fans remember Payton as one of the best -- maybe the best -- player ...

Walter Payton is one of the best running backs ever to grace a football field. "Sweetness" passed 12 years ago and his name is now being rubbed in the dirt. This is something his former coach is ...

Regardless of what is true and what is not, isn’t Walter Payton still one of the greatest athletes of all time, a man who earned the name Sweetness, a person who entertained us on Sunday and helped us ...

Well, there's a new book about Payton coming out, and those who venture to read it are going to view him in an entirely different light upon completing it. Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter ...

Among the other revelations in Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton, which Sports Illustrated is excerpting in this week's issue, author Jeff Pearlman (a former SI senior writer and ...

They called him Sweetness, but Chicago Bears great Walter Payton had a dark side, according to a biography to be released Oct. 4. An excerpt of "Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton," by ...

Walter Payton in Super Bowl XX. The Bears defeated the Patriots 46-10; Credit:© Manny Rubio-USA TODAY Sports The man known as "Sweetness" finally won his lone championship ring in Super Bowl XX.

Monday was a hard day for people who love the man called Walter "Sweetness" Payton. They prefer to remember him as he is shown on NFL films, in the heat of summer wearing his Roos headband with ...

She says it was "stressful" to know that Payton's girlfriend was at the ceremony, but contrary to the claims in Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton, she never met the mistress.

Bears legend Walter Payton, made and how Sweetness continues to inspire. Story by Larry Mayer Jarrett Payton was half a world away from home when he spotted a familiar sight. In London for a ...