They gathered last weekend, old men now, remembering the good times when they played together with the Detroit Lions and met George Plimpton, this writer from Harvard who wanted to go to training camp ...

So begins the first chapter of writer George Plimpton’s 1966 bestselling book “Paper Lion,” based upon his experience of “trying out” as the last-string quarterback at the Detroit Lions training camp ...

Detroit Lions fans and those who would enjoy seeing what became a football cult classic movie a half century ago will have another opportunity at the Redford Theatre on Sunday when Paper Lion is ...

George Plimpton, the widely influential editor, writer and "participatory journalist," died Thursday night at his apartment in Manhattan, robbing the literary world of one of its most vigorous ...

Forty years ago, writer George Plimpton published one of the greatest sports books of all time — Paper Lion. The book described his exploits playing with the Detroit Lions in a 1963 pre-season game.

George Plimpton, the self-deprecating author of "Paper Lion" and a patron to Philip Roth, Jack Kerouac and countless other writers, has died. He was 76. Plimpton died Thursday night at his Manhattan ...