In 2025, Deion "Coach Prime" Sanders is the head football coach at the University of Colorado, entering his third season with the Buffaloes. He recently recovered from a scare with bladder cancer, with his doctor declaring him cured after surgery.
Sanders is focused on the upcoming season, where Colorado aims to compete for the Big 12 title and a College Football Playoff berth. He is also managing his son Shedeur Sanders’ transition to the NFL, where Shedeur is starting for the Cleveland Browns.
Tony Dungy of the Indianapolis Colts became the first African American NFL head coach to win a Super Bowl.
The victory marked the first time a Black head coach had reached the National Football League’s championship game, one that featured not just one, but two Black head coaches.
Super Bowl XLI pitted Dungy and his Colts against Lovie Smith, head coach of the Chicago Bears.
The Bears shocked the Colts with a 92-yard kick return for a touchdown in the first 14 seconds of the game. Despite this demoralizing start, the Colts and quarterback Peyton Manning came back to defeat the Bears, 29-17.
It was the Colts’ first Super Bowl victory since 1971, when they played in Baltimore.
Dungy (center) along with colleagues Dan Patrick and Rodney Harrison at an NFL game in Denver in September 2013.
Anthony Kevin Dungy (69).
Since retiring, Dungy has served as a TV sports analyst. He is an evangelical Christian, and at one point in his coaching career considered leaving football for the prison ministry.
Throughout his career, he has remained involved with community service organizations.
Before and after shuttle explosion (first visible signs of danger on left, just after explosion on right).
At 11:38 a.m. EST, on January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Christa McAuliffe is on her way to becoming the first ordinary U.S. civilian to travel into space.
McAuliffe, a 37-year-old high school social studies teacher from New Hampshire, won a competition that earned her a place among the seven-member crew of the Challenger.
She underwent months of shuttle training but then, beginning January 23, was forced to wait six long days as the Challenger‘s launch countdown was repeatedly delayed because of weather and technical problems. Finally, on January 28, the shuttle lifted off.
Seventy-three seconds later, hundreds on the ground, including Christa’s family, stared in disbelief as the shuttle broke up in a forking plume of smoke and fire.
Millions more watched the wrenching tragedy unfold on live television. There were no survivors.
The Final Crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
President Ronald Reagan addressing the nation from the White House on the day of the space shuttle Challenger explosion.
Tony Dungy (68) of the Indianapolis Colts became the first Black NFL head coach to win a Super Bowl (XLl). The victory marked the first time a Black head coach had reached the National Football League’s championship game—one that featured not just one, but two Black head coaches.
Hall of Fame head coach and NBC Football analyst Tony Dungy.
At 11:38 a.m. EST, on January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Christa McAuliffe is on her way to becoming the first ordinary U.S. civilian to travel into space. McAuliffe, a 37-year-old high school social studies teacher from New Hampshire, won a competition that earned her a place among the seven-member crew of the Challenger.
Seventy-three seconds later, hundreds on the ground, including Christa’s family, stared in disbelief as the shuttle broke up in a forking plume of smoke and fire.
Millions more watched the wrenching tragedy unfold on live television. There were no survivors.
The crew of the Challenger space shuttle. Front row, from left to right, shows astronauts Mike Smith, Dick Scobee, Ron McNair and in the rear row, from left to right, are Ellison Onizuka, school teacher Christa McAuliffe, Greg Jarvis, and Judith Resnik. (NASA)
