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THE SPACE BETWEEN

By Bruce Feldman

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Michael Crabtree looks overmatched. It is July 31, 2006, and Crabtree is getting posted up in the Texas High School Coaches Association all-star basketball game. In a few days he'll begin his football career at Texas Tech, but tonight the 6'3", 200-pound kid is locked up with Dexter Pittman, a 6'10", 320-pounder with a backside as broad as a Buick. Pittman wants position, and Crabtree isn't about to give it to him. Crabtree started the game on the bench and watched Pittman, a nationally ran ...

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