HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Before the Texans, we had the Oilers, and before Bill O'Brien, there was Bum Phillips. Forty years ago -- nearly to the day -- Phillips coached his first game for the Oilers in the ...

PHILADELPHIA — Starting Friday night, Opera Philadelphia, the new name for the former Opera Company of Philadelphia, presents the East Coast premiere of “Silent Night,” a prize-winning contemporary ...

When the legendary coach of the Houston Oilers, Oail Andrew Phillips — everybody knows him as “Bum” — was approached in 2012 with a pitch to make an opera about his life, he responded in trademark ...

The 26-year-old Birmingham-born, Huntsville-raised soprano has been flying high since she won the Met's National Council Auditions in 2005. A regular at Santa Fe Opera, Phillips has sung at Chicago ...

Bum Phillips All-American Opera opened in New York this week, and it is exactly what the title says: an opera based on the life of legendary Houston Oilers coach Bum Phillips. Sports on Earth's Mike ...

Former Houston Oilers coach Bum Phillips is one of the most colorful characters in NFL history. Inspired by a life so improbable that it has been compared to that of the fictional Forrest Gump, the ...