BOULDER — Colorado football coach Mike MacIntyre traveled to Tennessee last weekend to honor to a friend and mentor, a contemporary of his father (the late George MacIntyre), and a man who also happens to be one of the most successful football coaches in the history of the game.
Ken Sparks, who coached at Carson-Newman University for 37 years, has been in hospice care as he battles cancer. MacIntyre and a number of other of Sparks' friends gathered in Tennessee over the weekend to participate in an annual clinic that has become a Sparks legacy.