n 1958, the University of Buffalo football team won eight of nine regular-season games and was awarded the Lambert Cup as the best small-school progra...
Story | Conversation | November 19, 2008
AMALE, Ghana -- On the most important day of his life, Shadrak Kwabena wakes up hungry. He is 9 years old, his pencil legs covered in knee-high, hand-...
Story | Conversation | November 10, 2008
wo years later, here's the irony: Bryan Pata might have been the lucky one. Like many talented athletes dying young, he never had to face the inevitab...
Story | Conversation | October 30, 2008
IAMI -- CeCe Boozer's alarm clock rang at 4 a.m., the glare of a waxing August moon still coming through the bedroom window. She and her husband, Carl...
Story | Conversation | October 27, 2008
AN FRANCISCO -- She waits for the city bus, in high-tops. Cars whiz by, and she shuts her 17-year-old eyes, imagining her dream ride: a beat-up, oil-l...
Story | Conversation | October 19, 2008
OLANA BEACH, Calif. -- Other than the helicopters and the lifeguards and the coroner, he had eight miles of beach to himself that morning. The posted ...
Story | Conversation | October 06, 2008
hen I was working for "Jimmy Kimmel Live" in April 2003, our gregarious executive producer, Daniel Kellison, convinced a few notable Red Sox players t...
Story | October 01, 2008
Esther Phiri stares up at the Daemonen, a massive, screeching beast the likes of which she has never before seen in her 25 years of life, a frightenin...
Story | Conversation | September 26, 2008
Chikosi Walker and Lamont Peterson's blueprint has created a buzz. But it's also thrust Marquise into a spotlight that he might not yet be ready for. ...
Story | Conversation | September 23, 2008
The box is made of cardboard, about the size of a miniature refrigerator and coated by the dust that accompanies decades of solitude. Once every coupl...
Story | Conversation | September 12, 2008
If a century of unmitigated pain hasn't killed the affection of Cubs fans from ages 7 to 100, nothing ever will.
Story | Conversation | September 09, 2008
Two airplanes destroyed the Twin Towers, and two boys went back to the rest of their lives. "Outside the Lines" revisits the battle between Dann...
Story | Conversation | August 19, 2008
WILSON, N.Y. -- Night creeps in and they run, cleats on concrete, mop-top hair flowing through black ball caps. They're nervous. They're 14 years old....
Story | Conversation | August 07, 2008
IGGINS, Miss. -- On a recent Friday night, the heavens turned an ominous swamp-water green. The temperature began to plummet, and the air smelled fres...
Story | Conversation | August 04, 2008
Produced by Martin Khodabakhshian • Chat with Richard Jensen on Monday at 4 p.m. ET. • Revisit Jensen's trip to...
Story | Conversation | July 31, 2008