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Making the best of bad

By Jeff MacGregor
ESPN The Magazine

Friday, September 4, 2009

This article appears in the September 21 issue of ESPN The Magazine. The Texas sunset is a Rorschach blot above the black straightedge of the world. A panhandle sky in the last of the light, red and orange and radiant. A sky in which a man might find anything. So a man of a certain age and a certain mind might be forgiven if the sight of that horizon fills him with longing and with hope. Maybe if a man could just straighten and gather himself, just get his feet under him and set out for that ...

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