The bond between fathers and their athletic-genius children is a complex, fragile and often treacherous one. If the father pushes too hard, the child rebels. If the father doesn’t push hard enough, ...

Todd Marinovich has heard the story of his life told so many times over the years. The quarterback prodigy. The overbearing father. The sudden rise to stardom. The drug-induced downfall. Each ...

Former NFL quarterback Todd Marinovich was arrested after being found naked with marijuana in a stranger's yard, police in Irvine, Calif., announced on Monday. Marinovich, 47, now faces four charges: ...

Todd Marinovich, subbed "Robo QB" by sportswriters, played college football at USC before being a first-round pick of the Los Angeles Raiders. Marv Marinovich, one of the original "worst sports ...

Erik Himmelsbach-Weinstein a Los Angeles-based writer and television producer. As a producer, he’s worked on everything from Behind the Music to VH1’s Rock Doc Monterey 40 to ESPN’s Emmy-nominated The ...

Chosen ahead of Brett Favre, Marinovich signed a three-year deal that seemed to confirm what many had predicted for years: he was built for this moment. But that narrative—of a quarterback engineered ...