Audiences of all ages already are cheering “The Express,” the new sports movie that provides not only a biography of Ernie Davis but also a look at how the color barrier was broken on the college ...

Editor’s Note: The Sentinel sports staff is putting together a summer series looking at the legacies of the most influential African-American athletes in history. Today: Ernie Davis. No one is ...

Former Franklin & Marshall football coach Tom Gilburg is in Syracuse, N.Y. this weekend to watch the world premiere Friday of "The Express," a movie about Ernie Davis' life based on the biography by ...

Chadwick Boseman got his film career started as part of the cast of the movie based on the life of Elmira's Ernie Davis, with that connection between the two also evident in the graceful manner they ...

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:20:24 GMT — NBC movie critic Jeffrey Lyons offers his thoughts on "The Express", the story of former Syracuse University football great Ernie Davis which opens this weekend ...

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:30:39 GMT — It's been nearly a half century since Ernie Davis became the first black to win the Heisman Trophy. If the story of his all-too-brief, but powerful life has dimmed over ...

Ernie Davis, the first Black Heisman Trophy winner, was poised to become a Cleveland Browns superstar before leukemia ended his journey at just 23. Though he never played a snap in the NFL, his legacy ...