Bill McCartney, the former University of Colorado football coach who became a prominent religious figure in the 1990s after ...

Bill McCartney, who coached Colorado to its only football national championship and founded the Promise Keepers, an evangelical Christian group for “godly men,” died Jan. 10 in Boulder ...

A religious conversion in his 30s helped inspire McCartney to found Promise Keepers, which drew millions of men to events in the early 1990s.

The date was October 4, 1997, and the MSNBC producers on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., had a problem. Actually, they had several problems. The main problem was that the million or so Promise ...