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With his team soaring and tacklers clasping air as he bursts by them, Tomlinson, a quiet leader actually stressed out by attention, has recorded the best single-season performance for a back in football history. "By far," says Emmitt Smith, the league's all-time leading rusher--for now. Tomlinson is the best ever, gushes Chargers coach Marty Schottenheimer. That means better than Red Grange, Jim Brown, Walter Payton and Barry Sanders. Heck, Tomlinson even completed two of his three passes--both for touchdowns--and is a garish seven out of 10, with six TD tosses, in his career. With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Back Ever | 1/5/2007 | See Source »

Tomlinson started his own football education in Waco, Texas, at 9 and later became a student at Emmitt Smith's running-back camp. "You knew he had that 'it,'" remembers Smith. LT even started sleeping with a football and didn't stop until his junior year of college at Texas Christian University, where he led the nation in rushing in consecutive years. "The ball would lie in his arms like a girlfriend," says Tomlinson's younger brother LaVar, 24. "And I can never remember that ball being on the floor." He who fails to fumble in slumber won't cough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Back Ever | 1/5/2007 | See Source »

...Number of calls Carmen Allen of Grandview, Mo., says she received in one hour last Tuesday night from viewers trying to vote for Lopez; her mobile-phone number is the same, with a different area code. Former Dallas Cowboy Emmitt Smith beat Lopez for the title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Nov. 27, 2006 | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

Even in satin shirts and sparkly shoes, EMMITT SMITH somehow managed to look manly during his stint on Dancing with the Stars. It helped that the three-time Super Bowl champ didn't just waltz through the competition. He shimmied, funky-chickened and Hammer-timed his way to the trophy. All the same, sports fan Jimmy Kimmel felt compelled to ask Smith whether this was "the gayest thing" he had ever done. The all-time NFL rushing leader fired back: "It's only gay for guys who think they can be gay by doing it." (Translation--we think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 27, 2006 | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

...America who have never been protected from sex crimes by (white) men - at least not in the way that white women were historically "protected" from black men. That notion of protecting the white female chastity was the impetus behind anti-miscegenation laws, and countless lynchings - including those of Emmitt Till, and, less famously, James Cameron, a black man who was accused of murder and rape in Marion, Ind., in 1930 and survived his attempted lynching, though his two co-defendants did not. Anticipating his imminent death at the hands of the angry mob, Cameron (who was later exonerated from both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southern Discomfort | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

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