Tag: Revisiting

What happened to Deion Sanders’ Colorado castoffs? Revisiting a record-setting exodus

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Chase Sowell walked into Colorado’s football facility on the Sunday after the 2023 spring game and saw more than a dozen teammates lined up against a wall.

As each player entered the head coach’s office and emerged within minutes enraged or in tears, the second-year receiver nervously pondered his fate.

“We knew it was going to happen, but we didn’t know it was going to happen that soon,” Sowell said.

Deion Sanders, given his Power 5 head coaching shot in

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Revisiting My Rastafari Childhood | The New Yorker

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The first time I left Jamaica, I was seventeen. I’d graduated from high school two years before, and while trying to get myself to college I’d been scouted as a model. And so I found myself at the Wilhelmina Models office in Miami, surrounded by South Beach’s finest glass windows with all my glass hopes, face to face with a famous one-named model who was now in her sixties. When her gaze halted at my dreadlocks, I shouldn’t have been

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New York: Revisiting the Big Apple, das beweisen will, dass es immer noch die aufregendste Stadt der Welt ist

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Die Stadt, die niemals schlafen soll, ist aus ihrem erzwungenen Winterschlaf erwacht und ist mit einer zusätzlichen Prahlerei zurück.

Einheimische sprechen sogar von Silberstreifen zu den Schrecken der letzten 18 Monate. Und sie haben einen Punkt.

Die Bürgersteige sehen sauberer aus; das Straßenessen umfangreicher; die Broadway-Lichter heller; die Leute, die weniger abgestumpft sind, und sogar die elenden Pferde, die darauf warten, die Leute durch die Stadt zu karren – für 60 Dollar (45 Pfund) pro Stück für eine 20-minütige Fahrt

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Revisiting Ilkay Gundogan – The New York Times

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Ilkay Gundogan is a little sheepish as he admits it. It is not what he is supposed to do, he knows. He is supposed to take each game as it comes. That is the professional’s mantra. Don’t get ahead of yourself. Think about today, rather than tomorrow. That is what a sports psychologist would advise. It is what his manager, certainly, would recommend.

It is not, though, what he has done. From the moment Manchester City eliminated Paris St.-Germain earlier

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