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“How Tough Love (And Disrespect) Fueled Paolo Banchero” ESPN On the eve of the 2024 playoffs, a tiger was lying in wait. Duke’s latest powerhouse product, Paolo Banchero, of Seattle AAU fame now full on Orlando’s boundless magic was headed for a collision with the rest of the league. He didn’t like how he was cast, that he hadn’t been on enough national television games, that he wasn’t seen in the same likes as the rest of the stars of basketball. He aimed to show the world that he was just as good as anyone else, and Orlando would be his proving ground. I spent a week in Florida trying to get a hold of the hype.
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Slow Death In The DesertLA Times A dispatch from the Super Bowl (Eagles vs Chiefs) where the Times let me ride through the desert after moving to town to witness a familiar walk of misery for Philadelphia.
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Nobody Pities The KingLA TimesSome folks say Ryan Garcia was obsessed with “Tank” Davis, so much so that in 2023 he told me that he was having dreams of beating Tank down, a feat no man can lay claim to in all of the boxing world. For two months I followed Garcia as he prepared for the fight that catapulted his fame, and the night that that changed boxing for the better this decade.
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King Under The CourtLA Times Some folks say Ryan Garcia was obsessed with “Tank” Davis, so much so that in 2023 he told me that he was having dreams of beating Tank down, a feat no man can lay claim to in all of the boxing world. For two months I followed Garcia as he prepared for the fight that catapulted his fame, and the night that that changed boxing for the better this decade.
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Can I Even Win?: Thierry Henry Wonders Why He Can’t Get A ShotLA Times Sitting in hia green room in the same town that crowned him a king, Thierry Henry, perhaps the most famous black baller that side of the pond was stumped at how he was still stuck doing TV. He wanted back in the coach’s box, not behind a Champions League desk for CBS. After a week in Europe with the former Arsenal leading man, he opened up at just how his time away from the game has invited a change in his attitude.
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Terrence Crawford Is Out To Prove He’s No B-SideLA Times Ahead of the biggest fight of his life, the undefeated four-weight, twice undisputed champion “Bud” Crawford climbed the peaks of the Coloradan mountains to quiet his mind and attack his goals. And there, over a few days, I witnessed the discipline and might that was the world’s best boxer since Floyd Mayweather Jr. blessed the ring.
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A Wild Ride With Devin HaneyLA Times One sunny day in LA, Devin Haney invited me on a ride in his baby blue Lambo to tell the world why he was boxing’s next big thing. Undefeated and raised in the doghouses of America’s cities, gyms and sins, Haney forged himself into a young superstar. But, he’s ready to mature into something greater.
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