Sun series: Edmondson football
A five-part series chronicling the lives of Edmondson's football players leading up to a crucial showdown against rival City College during the 2006 season. Read more ...
Coaching life, not play, is at heart of 'Big Game'
There are images I won't soon forget: Read more ...
Focusing on Edmondson
It wasn't any great sense of prognostication that led Gerrard Shelley to videotape all the games for the Edmondson Red Storm's championship season. It was just something he'd done every year since 2001. Read more ...
The big game: Part 1 of 5
A game of contrasts
Next week, millions will tune in to the Super Bowl, attracted as much by an athletic contest as a spectacle saturated with glitz, glamour and excess. Read more ...
The big game: Part 2 of 5
The promise of a fresh start
At 7:04 a.m. Tuesday, 17-year-old Sterling Jones, bleary-eyed and shirtless, opens the front door of his rowhouse on Wheeler Avenue in West Baltimore. He squints into the sunshine, nods his head, then disappears back inside. Read more ...
The big game: Part 3 of 5
On the ball off the field
The classic canon, etched forever into football's mythology, states that no team achieves success unless composed of 22 equally important parts. No one man is more vital than the next, no individual player's role more critical to the outcome than another's. If one consistently falters, they all falter. Read more ...
The big game: Part 4 of 5
Doubts and distractions
It's a lost cause. Read more ...
The big game: Part 5 of 5
The showdown
Sterling Jones sits on a concrete ledge above rusty metal bleachers at Edmondson-Westside High School watching the school band labor through a last rehearsal before tonight's football game. His feet dangle over the ledge, but it is hardly an image of relaxation. He nervously rocks back and forth. Read more ...
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