This is just one of the windows on the inner Payton that Jeff Pearlman offers in his nearly 500-page biography of the Hall of Famer, Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton.

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Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton, penned by best-selling author Jeff Pearlman, is due to be released next week. It digs deep into Payton's private life, and the stuff Pearlman ...

REMEMBERING WALTER PAYTON ON HIS DEATHWalter Payton, legendary Jackson State running back, selected for NFHS Hall of Fame Robert Brazile Brazile was drafted in the first round as the No. 6 pick.

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 ...

Let me start by saying that Walter Payton was my last childhood athletic hero. There had been Ditka and Butkus and Sayers before him, when I was a little-bitty kid, but I was 16 when Payton was a ...

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 ...

As one of only 57 past Walter Payton Man of the Year recipients (representing .1% of the 38,000 players in the NFL since 1970), I'm proud to be associated with this special and unique community of ...

Walter Payton waves to a crowd along Main Street on Walter Payton Day in Columbia., Miss., on April 19, 1975. (published in The Columbian-Progress on April 24, 1975) ...

Let me start by saying that Walter Payton was my last childhood athletic hero. There had been Ditka and Butkus and Sayers before him, when I was a little-bitty kid, but I was 16 when Payton was a ...