New Yorker
Mar 1993
A profile of Felipe Lopez, high school phenom.
The inner workings of a high school basketball team stacked with international talent.
Lance Stephenson, the latest in a long line of Coney Island basketball prodigies, carries a burden none of his predecessors did: restoring New York City’s reputation as the hoops capital of the world.
On October 17, 1973, John McClamrock was paralyzed playing high school football. Doctors doubted he would make it through the night. But he and his mother refused to give up—for more than three decades.
At age 17, Bonnie Richardson won the Texas state track team championship all by herself. Then she did it again.