Former Boston Patriots and Miami Dolphins linebacker Nick Buoniconti, who announced two years ago that he would donate his brain to science, has died at the age of 78. Buoniconti, a Springfield native ...

The little guy always had a hero in Nick Buoniconti, and only partly because in his world of uncommonly large and strong men, he was one of them. Even during his playing days from 1962 to 1976, ...

Nick Buoniconti, left, Larry Little, center, and Don Shula chat before a halftime Hall of Fame ring presentation in November 2005. MIAMI HERALD FILE The personal toll of having been a team member of ...

Nick Buoniconti remembers last Thanksgiving Day. He sat at the bedside of his son, Marc, in the intensive care unit of Jackson Memorial Medical Center. The young Buoniconti was paralyzed from the neck ...

Nick Buoniconti was a fighter. A 5-foot-11, 220-pound linebacker doesn’t make to the Pro Football Hall of Fame without being wired to scrape and claw for every inch of success, without finding a goal ...

The game of football takes its toll on all who play it for any length of time, though the degree to which they are impacted and how varies. For some, the price to pay for years of tackles is knee ...

The Dolphins will honor the memory of the late Nick Buoniconti during the 2019 season with a special decal on their helmets. The decal will feature the initials "NAB" and be worn for the first time in ...

DAVIE, Fla. — The last time Larry Little saw Nick Buoniconti was in August 2013, when the undefeated 1972 Miami Dolphins were honored at the White House by President Obama. Little, a Hall of Fame ...

Miami Dolphins Hall of Famer Nick Buoniconti has gone public with his health issues for the first time, explaining to Sports Illustrated that he feels "lost" and "like a child." The 76-year-old former ...

The Patriots of the 1960s were about as big-time as a Route 1 carhop. They were the professional football equivalent of couch-surfers, playing their home games at Fenway Park, at BU, at BC, at Harvard ...

NEWARK, N.J. -- When Marc Buoniconti heard about the devastating spinal cord injury that Rutgers defensive tackle Eric LeGrand suffered a little more than a week ago, he called his doctor and started ...

NEWARK, N.J.NEWARK, N.J. — When Marc Buoniconti heard about the devastating spinal cord injury that Rutgers defensive tackle Eric LeGrand suffered a little more than a week ago, he called his doctor ...