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.
December 30, 2007
Sun follow-up
Still performing like champions
It's a quiet, uneventful afternoon at Edmondson-Westside High, except for one thing. Dante Jones' cell phone won't stop ringing. And ringing.
January 28, 2007
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.
January 29, 2007
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.
January 30, 2007
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.
February 1, 2007
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.
February 4, 2007
Rick Maese: Coaching life, not play, is at heart of 'Big Game'
There are images I won't soon forget:
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.
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