College

March 3, 2020
Tahj Holden

Cancer and the coach: Former NCAA champ Tahj Holden wrestles with his young son’s disease

He led his prep team to its first state championship, but the fight at home faces long odds.
July 21, 2015
Oklahoma U

Inside Oklahoma’s Healing Process in the Aftermath of the SAE Racism Scandal

Charles Tapper, a junior defensive end for the Oklahoma Sooners, was lounging around his off-campus apartment playing NBA 2K with fellow lineman Charles Walker and cornerback Zack Sanchez on the evening of Sunday, March 8. With a 5:45 a.m. workout scheduled for the next day, the time was quickly approaching for them to head to bed.Then Tapper, a team captain, got a call....
November 28, 2003
NYTimes Ali

COLLEGE FOOTBALL; A Player’s Perseverance Is Rewarded

Darting and sprinting up the block, the little boy with the miniature football was as familiar a sight as the cabs that zoomed through Park Hill Avenue, the main artery of the Park Hill housing projects on Staten Island. Immaculately attired in charcoal gray slacks, a silk shirt and navy blue Buster Brown shoes, 4-year-old Gary Ham Jr. was playing with friends outside his apartment building on a humid summer morning in 1987. He was waiting for a church van to take his family to a Sunday service...
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