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OTL: All Or Nothing

Eric Neel

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

OTL: Hungry for a Better Life

Wright Thompson

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

OTL: Praying for Closure

Elizabeth Merrill

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

OTL: Fearless Love

Eric Neel

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

OTL: Honor Thy Father

Tom Friend

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

OTL: Back Into The Water

Tom Friend

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

OTL: Manny Being Manipulated

Bill Simmons

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

OTL: Fists of Phiri

Jim Caple

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

OTL: YouTube Baby

Wayne Drehs

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

OTL: Fifth and Jackson

Jeff Pearlman

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

OTL: No Love Lost

Wayne Drehs

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

OTL: Revenge of the Baseball Gods

Tom Friend

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

OTL: A Town Torn Apart

Elizabeth Merrill

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

OTL: After The Storm

Amy K. Nelson

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

OTL: Getting Off The Mat

Martin Khodabakhshian

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
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