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Byline: Kent Babb Every day, he goes online and checks his messages again and again, and every day is the same: no response. George Weinhouse, a 67-year-old retired anesthesiologist, answered [...]

Byline: Kent Babb Maybe a decade ago, Ron'Dell Carter approached a crossroads, and his father taught him a lesson he wouldn't forget. Then a sixth-grader, the young man had brought [...]

Byline: Kent Babb The games ended, teams disbanded, and fans tried to make sense of a March without Americans' favorite weekday sports distraction. The novel coronavirus outbreak and widespread social [...]

Byline: Kent Babb ALEXANDER CITY, Ala. -- The door swings open, the scent of smoked meat wafting into the rain-soaked parking lot behind him, and in walks the former football [...]

Byline: Kent Babb Over takeout sandwiches in a dusty recording studio, I asked Kobe Bryant for parenting advice. It was July 2018, and I had just begun researching a profile [...]

Byline: Kent Babb Kobe Bryant, a five-time National Basketball Association champion and global sports icon who retired in 2016 before adding an Academy Award to his considerable trophy case two [...]

Byline: Kent Babb HOUSTON - The game begins, and Deshaun Watson considers his options. A threat could come from anywhere. He can't just do nothing. 'Taking what the defense gives [...]

Byline: Kent Babb ARLINGTON, Texas - The middle-aged man in the Super Bowl pictures is gone, though some of what brought him there remains. 'I stand here with you as [...]

Byline: Kent Babb HOOKS, Texas - There's an old man standing alone in a cold rain. The high school football team he's coaching is losing a game a dozen miles [...]

Byline: Kent Babb Chris Klieman doesn't watch many NFL games these days, busy as he is in his first season as Kansas State's coach. But when he does check in, [...]

Byline: Kent Babb OWINGS MILLS, Md. - Earl Thomas has been thinking about it, often late at night, as the game approaches. In his mind, he's stepping onto a field [...]

Byline: Kent Babb LYNCHBURG, Va. - On occasion Liberty University will invite members of out-of-state churches to speak at its convocation, and in January 2018, a man from Mississippi stood [...]

Byline: Kent Babb RENTON, Wash. - It's late afternoon on the second floor of an office building on Lake Washington, and it must be after 4 p.m., because here comes [...]

Byline: Kent Babb MINNEAPOLIS - On the day he'd bury his daughter, Mark Catlin stepped out of a chapel and into the fresh air. 'Nice day for a walk,' he [...]

Byline: Kent Babb SEATTLE - His daddy used to try to bulk him up, a piece of cake here or a slice of pie there, but the kid seemed to [...]

Byline: Kent Babb BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - He used to do push-ups outside the courtroom, 10 or 15 in his suit, enough to lift his heart rate but never so [...]

Byline: Kent Babb DURHAM, N.C. - The game ended a while ago, but Cameron Indoor Stadium is still packed and rocking. Duke fans and students are here to say goodbye. [...]

Byline: Kent BabbATLANTA - Here comes Sean McVay with his big ideas and lustrous skin and good hair, onto the biggest stage in professional sports.So many questions and lights and [...]

Byline: Kent Babb Kobe Bryant, a five-time -National Basketball Association champion and global sports icon who retired in 2016 before adding an Academy Award to his considerable trophy case two [...]

Byline: Kent BabbATLANTA - He danced his way onto the platform Monday night, more of a full-body convulsion than anything, and that's the way Rob Gronkowski began his Super Bowl [...]

Byline: Kent BabbHe used to make this walk most afternoons, the skinny kid with so much height and so many hopes, on his way toward a McDonald's in Prince George's [...]

Byline: Kent BabbKANSAS CITY, Mo. - They stepped out of the cold and into the warmth and uncertainty of a private airport in Philadelphia. Failure was not an option.In early [...]

Byline: Kent BabbHOUSTON - Just a few weeks ago, Tyrann Mathieu woke up in his big bed, in his big house, in the middle of his big contract with the [...]

Byline: Kent Babb ORANGE PARK, Fla. -- They guide him down the hall and through a doorway, angling his wheelchair away from the calendar. Once the room is quiet, the [...]

Byline: Kent BabbCHANNELVIEW, Texas - She never did say much when she came here, figuring the women and men she prayed with and ate alongside and cried to were, like [...]

Byline: Kent BabbNEW YORK - They're both here and willing, almost always here and willing. Only, at this moment, they're separated by the length of a basketball court in the [...]

Byline: Kent Babb The former NFL linebacker had come back for homecoming, and as a student's father sold Hillcrest High T-shirts and the homecoming court assembled, an old friend approached [...]

Byline: Kent Babb DALLAS - The former NFL linebacker had come back for homecoming, and as a student's father sold Hillcrest High T-shirts and the homecoming court assembled, an old [...]

Byline: Kent Babb Drew Brees was in a New Orleans Saints meeting room the other day, reviewing practice film with his fellow quarterbacks when - there it is, he did [...]

Byline: Kent Babb A few months ago, writer Joe Mande and his friend were walking into an NBA game in Los Angeles when Mande caught a glimpse of a nearby [...]

Byline: Kent Babb LAKE FOREST, Ill. - He's barely noticed after slipping through the doors: a quiet presence surrounded by noise, a figure so easy to ignore - on a [...]

Byline: Kent Babb PHILADELPHIA - About midway through the national anthem before the Philadelphia Eagles' final preseason game, the locker room opens and out walks the team's strong safety: eyes [...]

Byline: Kent Babb Not long after the Los Angeles Rams traded for Marcus Peters, a talented but unpredictable cornerback, second-year Coach Sean McVay invited Peters to the team facility for [...]

Byline: Kent Babb NEW ORLEANS - Tall clouds gather in the distance, and Brice Brown turns right to point his truck toward the worst of it. 'Summertime in New Orleans,' [...]

Byline: Kent Babb METAIRIE, La. - The path had led him to some unexpected places, and on this stormy Monday it had brought Alvin Kamara to the New Orleans Saints' [...]

Byline: Kent Babb There's a door cracked open in this haven of serenity, an Eastern European spa hotel where robed guests walk carpeted hallways and employees speak in whispers. But [...]

Byline: Kent Babb ATLANTA - For those first few hours, David Tepper's new colleagues were introducing themselves, watching him, sizing him up. John Mara, a stately man whose family has [...]

Byline: Kent Babb HOUSTON - After just another jaw-dropping performance, James Harden was sitting shirtless at his locker stall, checking his texts. It was the middle of April, and he [...]

Byline: Kent Babb ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - She put the knife away, climbed into bed with her 4-year-old son and massaged his left hand until her own fingers felt numb. [...]

Byline: Kent Babb The coach ended practice and asked the players to gather for a few moments of introspection. Quin Snyder's voice was soft that day, a rarity knowing his [...]

Byline: Kent Babb After a mostly sleepless night, Dave Odom's mind was still racing. How had this happened? How had his son and his program pulled this off? Odom, the [...]

Byline: Kent Babb ST. LOUIS - Bruce Pearl had just completed his role in a 40-minute shoot-around at the Southeastern Conference tournament - smiles, shouts, a little squeal - and [...]

Byline: Kent Babb CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Most everyone had taken shelter by now, but Tony Bennett was walking in the rain. In his mind, some things are worse than a [...]

Byline: Kent Babb, David Nakamura and Mark Maske On a Friday evening in late September, President Donald Trump and a group of aides gathered in the executive office of Air [...]

Byline: Kent Babb ORLANDO, Fla. - Late last month, a mother and her two daughters spent a weekend together, dinner on Saturday and story exchange Sunday, and like every time [...]

Byline: Kent Babb A few weeks before Bill Belichick's first game as a head coach in the summer of 1991, the boss wanted to see him. Art Modell, the owner [...]

Byline: Kent Babb People back home saw glimpses of it years ago, but the truth is Jalen Ramsey began his public transition from humble kid to world-class trash talker by [...]

Byline: Kent Babb MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Trae Young's dad was standing near the Oklahoma tunnel the other night, going through his version of their game-day routine. Rayford Young's headphones were [...]

Byline: Kent Babb MIAMI - He inches forward, with jets overhead and the ground 50 stories below. Larry Johnson can feel it happening: the arrival, he calls it, of the [...]

Byline: Kent Babb ATLANTA - Before the game Jerry Jones waited. The Dallas Cowboys owner likes to talk, enjoys a get-together, and not far away on the field was Arthur [...]