When Donald Trump and the GOP Convention arrive in Cleveland, they will find a city with a long history of violent outbursts, racial tension—and brushes with fascism. In short, the perfect stage for the 2016 presidential campaign. Kyle Swenson explores the history of his hometown.
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Danny Thompson Drives Like a Bat Out of Hell
Danny Thompson is 66 years old and chasing the piston driven world land speed record. It’s a drive he inherited from his father, Mickey, a 1960s racing pioneer.
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In Pahokee, Football Serves as a Way Out
In a small, impoverished town in Florida, a high school football player works diligently to get a college scholarship and fulfill his dreams of playing for a Division I school.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Dinner at Tom Brady & Gisele Bündchen’s House
Mark Leibovich, in the New York Times, gets a rare look inside the life of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, who’s now 37 in a league where few play past the age of 40. The result is some obsessive habits about caring for his body and the food he eats: Every morning in the […]
Posted inCollege, Nonfiction
Necessary Roughness: Our College Pick
Journey Bailey played football for years and, after one concussion too many, came to in a hospital bed with a subdural hematoma. In his searing essay, Bailey writes about a football culture that kept him from revealing his symptoms to coaches who downplayed the seriousness of concussions.
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Profiling the Difficult Subject: Our College Pick
Journalists select profile subjects for any number of reasons.
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First Chapters: The Veins of the Ocean, by Patricia Engel
How we became a prison family.
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Jerry Football
He’s one of the most infamous owners in professional sports, in need of one more Super Bowl. The complete story of Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys.
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Football in Ferguson
Despite the turmoil tearing apart their small Missouri town, the boys of the McCluer High School football team still have their first game of the season Friday. Sports Illustrated‘s Robert Klemko follows the team and their coach, as they try to make sense of the madness around them as well as their “city’s conflicted past, […]
