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Four Wheels, No Breaks

Sean Taylor's felony charges have wrecked several lives, not to mention his pro football career

By Robert Andrew Powell
May 25, 2006

Sean Taylor is a football player. He's a good football player. No, let's get this right: He's a great football player, a star. Taylor grew up on the dusty gridirons south of Miami. He won a state championship at Gulliver Prep and then a national championship at the University of...
Sanitized by the Herald

By Robert Andrew Powell
Feb 24, 2005

Earlier this month the Miami Herald welcomed to town a young baseball player named Danny Almonte, the pitcher who threw a perfect game in the 2001 Little League World Series. That victory was tarnished when it was revealed Almonte's father had falsified the boy's birth certificate, making him appear to...
Rah Power

Cheerleaders get their props

By Victor Cruz and Robert Andrew Powell
Nov 27, 2003

FRI 11/28 It's easy to overlook the cheerleaders. They can be seen on the game-day sidelines in their matching uniforms. Black and gold for the Liberty City Warriors. Red, white, and black for the Northwest Boys & Girls Clubs Falcons. Not many people realize that these girls battle it out...
The Author

Martin Marcus and Carol Durbin pursued their dreams with a tenacity so fierce they overcame all obstacles but one: Death

By Robert Andrew Powell
Nov 20, 2003

The book sits quietly, battling long odds. Hundreds of other titles line the shelves of Books & Books in Coral Gables. Meditations on politics. Memoirs and biographies. First novels by the graduates of elite writing workshops. Some 60,000 new books are released in America every year. Most disappear quickly, with...
Muscle Worship

Flexing for glamour, power

By Robert Andrew Powell and Juan Carlos Rodriguez
Nov 13, 2003

FRI 11/14 So you want to be a bodybuilder, eh? Okay. First be born with the right body type; genetics are more than half the equation. Then spend hours a day in the gym, working out harder than most people work on the first day of a new job. We're...

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