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ESPN, Outside the Lines: Painkiller Misuse Numbs NFL Pain
The story examines the degree to which current and former NFL players used and misused prescription pain medications.
Tags: painkillers; drugs; NFL; football
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ESPN Outside The Lines: AAU Investigation
Uncovering allegations of child molestation and other forms of sexual abuse by Robert Dodd, longtime president and CEO if Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), eventually resulting in the firing of Dodd from the organization.
Tags: sexual abuse; sex offender; aau; athletic; amateur; union; robert dodd;
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ESPN Outside the Lines: Gambling & Youth Football
"This investigation discovered rampant gambling on young boys playing football in the highly competitive South Florida Youth Football league."
Tags: gambling; youth football; sports; ethics; broadcast
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ESPN Outside the Lines: Luck of the Draw
The analysis of 10 years of men's and women's Grand Slam draws shows the top two men's and women's seeds in the U.S. Open faced easier opponents in the first round than is statistically probable if the draws were truly random.
Tags: tennis; U.S. Open; French Open; Grand Slam; sports
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ESPN Outside the Lines: Human Trafficking and the World Cup
For more than nine months, the team investigated whether the presence of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa had an effect on human trafficking in the country. The investigation included undercover footage recorded from within the South African sex industry in Cape Town and Johannesburg.
Tags: Cape Town; Johannesburg; World Cup; FIFA; human trafficking; trafficking
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ESPN Outside the Lines:What's Lurking in Your Stadium Food
Health department inspection reports for food and beverage outlets at stadiums and arenas home to Major League Baseball, National Football League, National Hockey League, and National Baseball Association teams showed that more than half of them had been cited for a "critical" or "major" health inspection.
Tags: sports; stadium; arena; stadium food; health; safety; food preparation
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Follow the Money
Corruption among street agents in the Dominican Republic has been public knowledge, but after a Chicago White Sox assistant general manager tried to bring $40,000 in undeclared cash into the United States a new story emerged: corruption among MLB employees.
Tags: David Wilder; kickbacks; Washington Nationals; signing bonus; Outside The Lines; baseball
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God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America
"Since 2000, America's most ambitious young evangelicals have been making their way to Patrick Henry College, a small Christian school just outside the nation's capital. God's Harvard grooms these students to be the elite of tomorrow, dispatching them to the front lines of politics, entertainment and science to wage the battle to take back a godless nation." The book's aim was "to capture this nerve center of the evangelical movement at a moment of maximum influence and also of crisis, as it struggles to avoid the temptations of modern life and still remake the world in its own image."
Tags: God's Harvard; evangelical movement; Roe V. Wade; gay rights; lawyers; politics; immoral; godless nation
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The Last Days of the Mountain Kingdom
The Outside Magazine looks at the new development of the "people's war" declared by a hard-line faction of communists in Nepal. The story describes how, after the royal family has been murdered, "Maoist guerrillas prowl the countryside, killing police with handmade grenades, extorting protection money from trekkers, and fomenting agrarian revolution." The author analyses the risk of a new "Asian apocalypse."
Tags: communists; revolution; international politics; Himalayas; Kathmandu; militia; Hindu kingdom; violence
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On Assignment: Remodeling Suburbia
In this installment of On Assignment Richard examines Fayette and Dekalb counties outside of Atlanta and investigates the lure of better communities and schools that is causing a migration of families from the inner city to the suburbs, often creating an a sprawl in the new suburb communities and a economic decline in areas left behind; the article discusses some of the obstacles communities are dealing with along lines of ethnicity and income level and the struggle to keep these new suburbs prosperous and attractive.