LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- On the final day of mandatory minicamp, all 90 Chicago Bears players wore No. 41 jerseys at practice to honor Brian Piccolo, who died 52 years ago Thursday from cancer.

(Phil Mascione/Chicago Tribune) 1970: Chicago Bears halfback Brian Piccolo died after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of testicular cancer that spread to his chest. He was 26.

The running back was one of two members of the 2017 Bears presented with the Brian Piccolo Award on Tuesday. The honor, named in memory of the former Chicago running back memorialized in the move ...

two sons. Now 57 and living in Delavan, Wis., she remains president of the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund, which ...