Smoking Hot: Billy Sims BBQ leads the growing fast-casual barbecue segment Billy Sims BBQ, a fast-casual barbecue concept now in six states, is primed for rapid growth in 2015. In the competitive sea ...

The question came up again this year when an Arkansas sports memorabilia dealer admitted to creating a phony Sims Heisman Trophy and other fake merchandise to commit widespread fraud, The Oklahoman ...

One of Coach Barry Switzer's most sought-after recruits was Billy Sims. In his 1978 Heisman winning season, Sims rushed for more than 1,700 yards and 20 touchdowns. However, it's more than just ...

WEST BEND -- Billy Sims was a star athlete in high school and college and made it to the NFL, but some of his greatest accomplishments have come well after his playing days ended. Sims is best known ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. Heisman Trophy Winner and former Detroit Lions player turned ...

Sims was originally from St. Louis, Missouri, and had no interest in playing football during his youth. Instead, he spent most of his time practicing baseball. Eventually, when Sims’ life was uprooted ...

Thirty years after his own Heisman Trophy ceremony, former Oklahoma running back Billy Sims detracted from the Heisman ceremony of Sooners quarterback Sam Bradford by repeatedly shouting “Boomer!” in ...

Those who serve or have served our country will be eating high on the hog at Billy Sims Barbecue come Friday, Nov. 11. Billy Sims’ restaurants nationwide will be giving away a free pulled pork, a ...

Billy Sims says more people recognize him these days for his restaurants than for being a Heisman Trophy winner, which proves he’s more than just the name behind the Billy Sims BBQ chain. “I get ...

Football great and barbecue restaurateur Billy Sims is expanding his restaurant empire and tackling the burger business. Billy Sims opens the new Billy Sims Burger at 1941 S Yale Ave in Tulsa, near ...

It took about a decade to convince Billy Sims to sell hamburgers. Sims, best-known for his Heisman Trophy-winning career at the University of Oklahoma, got into the restaurant business in 2004, when ...