Search

Byline: Kent Babb TICKFAW, La. - In the two sistersâ minds, the old house remains as it was: a one-story brick ranch a hundred yards off the road, white fence [...]

Byline: Kent Babb HAMTRAMCK, Mich. - After two years of war, the Rev. Daniel Schaicoski has his Sunday routine down. He looks out into the congregation, seeing familiar dread on [...]

Byline: Kent Babb MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. - Mike McDaniel's batteries are fading, and, like usual, it's his voice that goes first. The Miami Dolphins coach is normally upbeat and witty, [...]

Byline: Kent Babb He kept the title belt ready and the console juiced for whenever his little brother came home. James Rowe III was older by three years but sometimes [...]

Byline: Kent Babb MONTREAL - The other day it was Rick the dentist, who was rebuilding my broken lateral incisor, when we - well, he - got to talking about [...]

Byline: Kent Babb In BOULDER, Colo. and JACKSON, Miss. When football prospects first enter the University of Colorado's sleek recruiting lounge, they're led toward floor-to-ceiling windows. There, just below, is [...]

Byline: Kent Babb About a year ago, a bunch of old college roommates met up at a tavern in rural Nebraska. Most of them had played football at Harvard in [...]

Byline: Kent Babb and Matt Schudel Jim Brown, who was often called the greatest football player of his time but who gave up the sport at the peak of his [...]

Byline: Kent Babb CHARLOTTE - One of these days, Harold William Varner IV's father will have some unusual questions to answer. For one, why does their house have a Shoe [...]

Byline: Kent Babb NASHVILLE - The basketball coach's Friday started with a celebration: players and staffers surrounding him at Alabama's team breakfast and singing 'Happy Birthday' to 7-foot center Charles [...]

Byline: Kent Babb For a long while in the heartland, it was easy to become preoccupied with how the game ended. Coach Matt Campbell's controversial decision to go for a [...]

Byline: Kent Babb SANTA CLARA, Calif. - It was all so rhythmic, fluid, uncomplicated. The San Francisco 49ers were in cover-four, protecting against a deep pass, and edge rusher Nick [...]

Byline: Kent Babb KEY WEST, Fla. - The flame of a Key lime pie-scented candle flickers on an otherwise empty stage. Jimmy Buffett used to play for free beers at [...]

Byline: Kent Babb The newest episode of a classic American soap opera dropped last week with a twist that was predictable as could be but stunning all the same. There [...]

Byline: Kent Babb MIAMI - It had been years since they had been on vacation, just the two of them. So Thursday morning, Sania and Jeremy Harper dropped off their [...]

Byline: Kent Babb KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia - Hundreds of young women wandered out their doors as early as 6 a.m. one recent day, headed to a bus [...]

Byline: Kent Babb West Palm Beach, Fla. - After lunch, Greg Norman stands at the window of his private yacht club, watching the boats glide across the waterway. Dinghies and [...]

Byline: Kent Babb GREENSBORO, N.C. - His teammates are on the driving range, taking their first swings an hour before the tournament starts. But the only freshman on North Carolina [...]

Byline: Kent Babb The social worker was usually so good in these harsh moments, a calm voice of reason amid all the shouting, but this felt beyond his control. Usually, [...]

Byline: Kent Babb, Andrew Golden and Mark Maske Nearly a decade ago, he boarded an overnight flight across the country and cinched on a necktie that matched the team's colors. [...]

Byline: Kent Babb The Plains, Ohio Around here they still talk about the electricity he sent through this dusty old town, a place still wheezing long after the coal miners [...]

Byline: Kent Babb The play ended with Deebo Samuel picking up a crucial first down before hopping, limping, staggering in pain toward the San Francisco sideline. Samuel, the 49ers' most [...]

Byline: Kent Babb BATON ROUGE, La. - Sitting alone in the dimly lit kitchen, Chris Toombs cradles his bedraggled iPhone, searching for holiday gifts for his three children. Books, electronics, [...]

Byline: Kent Babb CLINTON, S.C. - The man in the gray muscle shirt is wearing no whistle, and considering his approach to, well, everything, it seems unlikely he just forgot [...]

Byline: Kent Babb The family has cheered on Alabama for decades, collecting memories to go with their degrees, but until four years ago Akeba Vester-Bell had never gone to a [...]

Byline: Kent Babb Alex Garwood has this hazy memory, covered in 17 years of sadness and dust, and it emerges sometimes when he looks at his sons: It's of him, [...]

Byline: Kent Babb BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - One day last fall, a pair of strangers met for dinner in Los Angeles. One, Anthony Edwards, had been a freshman phenom at [...]

Byline: Kent Babb DUBUQUE, Iowa - It's Pizza Friday, a Moller family tradition, and after months of FaceTiming in from college, Alexis drove home for the occasion. Tomorrow morning, on [...]

Byline: Kent Babb SANTA ANA, Calif. - He gave up on sleep a little before daybreak, opting to begin his workday early and maybe right the previous night's wrong. Now, [...]

Byline: Kent Babb LEXINGTON, Texas - The sun had just peeked over the tree line, bathing the landscape in light and warmth. There were three of us, longtime friends, heading [...]

Byline: Kent Babb ROCK HILL, S.C. - At precisely 4 p.m. on March 9, 2016, Phillip Adams stopped being a football player. It wasn't just something he'd called himself for [...]

Byline: Kent Babb On his last day as a football coach, Tony Franklin led Middle Tennessee toward the end zone one last time. Players and coaches followed. Some took a [...]

Byline: Kent Babb SEATTLE - He's not more than three or four pulls into his joint when, standing in a waterfront sculpture park in the middle of the afternoon, Shawn [...]

Byline: Kent Babb On her day off not long ago, emergency room nurse Jane Sandoval sat with her husband and watched her favorite NFL team, the San Francisco 49ers. She's [...]

Byline: Kent Babb Selena Lucien was in control, locked in on the squares on her phone, her opponent on the run. Downstairs, her friend was waiting. They had agreed to [...]

Byline: Kent Babb About midway through the first presidential debate, President Donald Trump reminded viewers of a recent accomplishment. 'I brought back Big Ten football,' Trump said as part of [...]

Byline: Kent Babb NASHVILLE - He's standing on a curb at the top of a hill, looking down on a landscape that exists only in his imagination. Maybe it can [...]

Byline: Kent Babb CLEMSON, S.C. - The construction crew is up early on Centennial Boulevard, hardhats on and equipment whirring. Clemson University seems to be always updating something, and on [...]

Byline: Kent Babb Twenty years ago at the Sydney Olympics, Greco-Roman wrestler Rulon Gardner pulled off one of the biggest upsets in sports history. Russian super heavyweight Aleksandr Karelin hadn't [...]

Byline: Kent Babb Shortly before a bronze Christopher Columbus met his watery demise, Chelsea Higgs Wise stood on the grass at sunset, listening and watching and thinking. She could hear [...]

Byline: Kent Babb, Brittany Shammas and Ariana Eunjung Cha Nurses take their spots on a sidewalk in late April a little before sunset. They're holding candles. When 136 people from [...]

Byline: Kent Babb Victor Rivera was the baritone in a barbershop quartet, but a solo was possible almost anywhere. He'd break into'Ragtime Doll' in his car, belt out 'You Are [...]

Byline: Kent Babb Von Miller is among the NFL's best pass rushers, and in addition to eight Pro Bowl appearances, he was the MVP of Super Bowl 50, when his [...]

Byline: Kent Babb In March, 39-year-old tight end Benjamin Watson announced his retirement after 15 NFL seasons, four teams (including two stints with New Orleans and New England) and one [...]

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 Sam Merrill used to walk away from the clay houses, another promise to him broken, and usually his imagination would attempt to comfort him in the same [...]

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

Byline: Kent Babb The United States women won gold in team pursuit at the World Track Cycling Championships in Berlin on Thursday, the team's first major race, and victory, since [...]

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 In March, 39-year-old tight end Benjamin Watson announced his retirement after 15 NFL seasons, four teams (including two stints with New Orleans and New England) and one [...]