Tag: history
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The Bandana Never Fades: How Welles Crowther Keeps Finding His Way Back to the Lacrosse Field
Welles Crowther died 25 years ago, but lacrosse never let his story disappear. From Boston College to the PLL, the man in the red bandana remains part of the sport’s identity.
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Do the Sports World’s 9/11 Rituals Still Land?
Twenty-five years after 9/11, sports leagues are still staging the rituals born from that day. But as players and fans increasingly have no memory of the attacks, those traditions are doing a different job: turning grief into history.
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Five Deaths in Eight Years: Football’s Heartland Problem Nobody Wants to Name
MicahJo Barnett’s death at William Jewell College is still medically unexplained. But across Kansas and Missouri, a troubling series of young football deaths — many involving extreme heat — demands a larger question: why does the same safety conversation restart every August and disappear every winter?
