As the Detroit Lions barrel toward a Thanksgiving Day game with the Green Bay Packers, some die-hard fans may be fantasizing about what it would be like to be on the field themselves: calling plays ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) _ George Plimpton, the self-deprecating author of ``Paper Lion'' and other sporting adventures and a patron to Philip Roth, Jack Kerouac and countless other writers, has died. He was 76.

NEW YORK (AP) -- 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 ...