But the coaching style and philosophy of Tyrone Willingham is to immerse himself in the action. And so his practices tend to find him in the midst of the fray, fiercely, personally involved ...

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 ...

“It was a perfect blue sky,” Notre Dame football coach Tyrone Willingham recalled. “And you have an association in North Carolina–when you get a perfect blue sky, it’s going to be a warm da ...

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 ...

could ever muster. Tyrone Willingham, The Real Ty Willie, did more for integrating the sidelines than Martin Luther King Jr. ever did. Pull yourself up by your headphones! Cast down your bucket!

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 ...

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 ...

Washington Coach Tyrone Willingham on Monday was fired effective the end of the season, meaning seventh-ranked USC will face a Huskies team with a lame-duck leader on Saturday at the Coliseum.

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 indefen ...

New Washington coach Tyrone Willingham said this week he thinks the school is getting “an excellent reception” from recruits, despite the late change in coaching staffs. Just how good ...

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 saddled ...