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This nutcracker isn't a ballet

By Chris Jones
Special to ESPN The Magazine

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

This story appears in the October 5 issue of ESPN The Magazine. Mike Singletary stands alone in the middle of two fields of action, a still life amid the chaos. A wooden cross rests on his chest, sunglasses hide his eyes and he holds his notebook in his hands, always. These are his tools, the instruments of his new profession. The notebook is a Moleskine, with a black leather cover and rounded corners and a collection of crisp, white, acid-free pages inside. It has the same texture as ...

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