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The story of prisoner F95488

By Sam Alipour
ESPN The Magazine

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

This story appears in the July 13 issue of ESPN The Magazine. It's March 3, 2008, a brilliant day in Santa Barbara. But for Eric Frimpong, it feels like hell. He's in Superior Court, encircled by sheriff's deputies, making one more trip to the Department 2 courtroom. This is his last stop on the outside for a while, a painful reminder of how far he has fallen. He left his native Ghana in 2005 to play soccer for UC Santa Barbara; a year later he became a campus hero while leading the Gaucho ...

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