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I Postponed Open Heart Surgery For the Cubs
ESPN.com

And lived to tell about it ... 

When doctors told me in the fall of 2016 I needed open heart surgery to save my life, I asked if we could wait, like a student asking a teacher for an extension. After all, the Cubs looked like they might have a chance to win the World Series.
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Michael Phelps' Final Turn
ESPN Magazine

As Michael Phelps prepared for his final Olympics, he sought the same peace out of the water as he had long found in it. For this piece, Phelps, vulnerably pulled back the curtain on his complicated relationship with his father and his longtime coach, providing an honest, insightful look at the human sacrifice made for Olympic greatness.
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Who Says I Can't
ESPN Magazine

On the surface, Rob Mendez seems like an inspiration. A rare disease prevented the development of limbs at birth, yet he relentlessly pursued his goal of becoming a head football coach. But this story is not that simple, revealing a complicated struggling to find his place in a world where everyone looks at him like the hero he fails to see.
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The Crucible in Cairo
ESPN.com & ESPN Magazine

As the Arab Spring erupted in the Middle East in 2010, Egypt turned to the unlikeliest of saviors for his underachieving national soccer team: American Bob Bradley. I traveled to Egypt and Qatar to understand if an American man could somehow reunite Egyptians through a pursuit for the World Cup.  EXPLORE

Wheels Up
and Hammer Down
ESPN Magazine

For ESPN Magazine's 2017 World Fame Issue, I traveled to the Spanish Grand Prinx to spend the weekend with reigning F1 champion Lewis Hamilton to discover how the only F1 driver ever invited to the Met Gala continues to win on and off the track.
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Pele And the Art
of Being Pele
ESPN.com & ESPN Magazine

As Brazil prepared to host the 2014 World Cup, I spent time on two continents with the arguably the most famous retired athlete in the world to explore what life is like when strangers literally worship the ground you have walked on.
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Emmy Award-Winning
Ray of Hope
ESPN.com

How the tragic death of the mascot for the University of North Carolina forever changed the lives of more than 100 strangers through a gift they never could have imagined.
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Emmy Award-Winning
The Real Frozen Tundra
ESPN.com

High school football comes to the Arctic, in an effort to keep kids from a drug- and crime-riddled Alaskan town out of trouble. Will work? At what cost?   EXPLORE

Emmy Award-Winning
No Love Lost
ESPN.com 

Eight years before the Chicago Cubs won the 2016 World Series, the crossed the threshold of one century without a championship. This piece told the story of one Cubs fans from every decade, going back to 1908, to try and figure out where hope truly comes from.
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