Lively crowd, big names make for zesty National High School Football Hall of Fame debut. Chris Spielman, Mike Doss and Archie Griffin make their way to their induction. Marcus Dupree: "I'd give ...

Chris Spielman was a high school All- American at Massillon, on the cover of a Wheaties box and a recruit with serious interest in playing at Michigan. His parents had been supportive during his ...

There are some players who improve a team just by being out on the field. Chris Spielman was one of those players. His energy, his enthusiasm, his hustle, and his aggressiveness were contagious ...

Doss took the podium making eye contact with inductee Chris Spielman. "Chris was the first high school player to have his picture on a Wheaties box," Doss said. Spielman and Massillon lost to ...

Sonny Spielman had coached at Central Catholic and later McKinley. His boys started hanging out with him at work. “I remember being at old McKinley High School in downtown Canton,” Chris said.

Spielman, 54, grew up in a football atmosphere in Canton, Ohio, where his late father, Sonny, was a successful high school coach. As a youngster, Chris was excited to see his grandmother visit the ...

Ohio State linebacker Chris Spielman was one of the most feared linebackers of his day, winning the 1987 Lombardi Award and earning consensus All-America honors in 1986-87. The decorated recruit ...

I feel very fortunate to have gotten to know Chris Spielman over the years ... Q: You were on the Wheaties box as a high school player, won as many awards as a linebacker can possibly win and ...

Chris Spielman is a Buckeye, always will be, but he may have a soft spot for Michigan. For one, he wanted to go there coming out of high school, only his dad, a lifelong OSU fan, talked him out of it.

His brother. Rick Spielman, now the Vikings’ general manager, is three years older than Chris. They were teammates on the Massillon (Ohio) High School basketball team in 1981-82, when Rick was a ...