By Judo Slivka

Monday, October 27, 2008

It's December, a month since they lost the state soccer championship. Coach Paul woke them at 4:30 a.m. and fed them burritos, and now he's driving them to visit a college. Eastern New Mexico isn't a big school, but it's the only one some of the boys will ever see. He puts the Suburban into gear and heads north past the harvested chile fields of this small town of fewer than 2,000 in southwestern New Mexico. He'll take the long way up I-25. It's safer, and the kids' mothers are worried. Pinche M ...

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