The new film "The Express" - about Syracuse running back Ernie Davis - holds special importance for Helen T. Gray, The Kansas City Star's religion editor. She and Davis - the first black to win ...

Ernie Davis, the movie, has some detractors. Related story Shaquille O'Neal and his Phoenix Suns teammates rent a theater at Carousel Center to watch "The Express." ...

The movie is based on the 1983 biography "Ernie Davis: The Elmira Express," by Robert C. Gallagher. Davis is played by Rob Brown, who bears an uncanny likeness to the former star running back, ...

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:30:39 GMT — It's been nearly a half century since Ernie Davis became the first black to win the Heisman Trophy. If the story of his all-too-brief, but powerful life has ...

In The Express, a sturdy new biopic of legendary Syracuse running back Ernie Davis, the real contest is waged against racism.If you don't know a thing about Davis, I won't spoil the plot for you here ...

Lewis Stark was Ernie Davis' best friend and created his own legacy defined by his love for family, sports and his friendship with the "Express." Click here for important updates to our privacy ...

Reviewing The Express: The Ernie Davis Story. Greg Huntoon Jun 7, 2018. I can remember the first time I watched many of the movies that I consider my favorites.

In "The Express," Rob Brown stars as Syracuse University's Ernie Davis, the first African American Heisman Trophy winner, who died of leukemia a year after wining the honor in 1962. Brown, whose ...

Chuck Hodes | Universal StudiosRob Brown (left), who plays Ernie Davis gets grilled by Dennis Quaid, who plays Ben Schwartzwalder in "The Express." DEARBORN, Michigan -- Playing a football coach ...

Crowdpleasing and oh-so-predictable, "The Express" is a muscular movie with social conscience that portrays Ernie Davis -- the first African-American collegian to win college football's coveted ...

Rob Brown as Ernie Davis in the sports biopic 'The Express.' Ernie Davis' story doesn't need any help in the tragedy department, but as poignant as it is, it's compounded by the fact that so few ...

Ernie Davis would be older, graying, perhaps bespectacled, yet sturdy and dignified at age 69. A gentleman, he was, who in the flower of his youth made children take notice, crowds rise to their ...