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SYDNEY, Australia - Tell me if you've heard this one. A blond swimsuit model gets involved with a sports superstar. They are photographed everywhere - two stunning, physically fit young specimens. In time, they announce their engagement. Then a photograph appears of the model. She is nude in a shower. Someone else's shower. A football player's shower. A married football player's shower. Her fiancé races to her side. In doing so, he abandons his team in the middle of a... (Continued)PARADE MAGAZINE | September 27, 2009
Rain falls on the church roof. It pours through a gaping hole and splashes onto the pews. Against the plop, plop, plop of gathering water, a pastor urges nearly 100 weary men to believe in the future. They wear old jackets or sweatshirts. They line up for chili and cornbread. They sleep on the floor, atop vinyl mattresses.
“Enjoy the meal,” the pastor tells them as they line up. “There’s a place for you here. See that man for a blanket…” Continues
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DETROIT FREE PRESS | Monday, February 08, 2010
MIAMI - All game long they clanked swords from opposite sides, the stakes getting higher, the ground rising, from sand to rocks to mountains to a narrow cliff. One mistake. That's all it would take. You knew that by the fourth quarter Sunday night, because to that point, the quarterbacks had been flawless. No picks. No fumbles. No bad decisions. Precision accuracy. Peyton Manning was doing what he does better than anyone, and Drew Brees, after a sputter start, was... (Continued)
Sports Illustrated | Monday, January 12, 2009
This was Christmas night. In the basement of a church off an icy street in downtown Detroit, four dozen homeless men and women sat at tables. The smell of cooked ham wafted from the kitchen. The pastor, Henry Covington, a man the size of two middle linebackers, exhorted the people with a familiar chant.
“I am somebody,” he yelled.
“I am somebody!” they repeated.
“Because God loves me!”
“Because God loves me!”
They clapped. They...
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