April 28, 2014 Table Of Contents
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THE MAIL
MAD MAX
The Tigers made a dramatic $144 million offer to Max Scherzer in the offseason. Even more dramatically, the 2013 AL Cy Young winner said no. Max Scherzer is a really smart guy, so what does he know that we don’t?
By Albert Chen
By Joe Sheehan
NFL DRAFT
By Andy Staples
SPORTS MEDICINE
If You Give a Mouse a CONCUSSION
At an NIH lab in Maryland, a brilliant intern stumbled on a novel way to observe the brains of concussed mice in real time. The resulting research is transforming ideas of how the brain reacts to mild traumatic injury and pointing the way to possible treatment
KENTUCKY DERBY
Once upon a time two no-name owners plowed their money into a no-name filly, who bred a colt that would one day—this day—become the wonder of the horse racing world and return its trainer to Churchill Downs for the first time in nearly 60 years. California Chrome's journey is the best kind of Kentucky Derby story
By Tim Layden
MEMOIR
By Rich Cohen
WORLD CUP 2014
URUGUAY WILL BE THE SMALLEST COUNTRY AT THE WORLD CUP; IRAN WILL BE THE LONGEST SHOT. THEN THERE IS THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC, WHICH SAW ITS CAPITAL CITY BOMBED TO BITS IN A BLOODY CIVIL WAR. FROM THAT RUBBLE EMERGED A BRAVE BAND OF BARNSTORMERS WHO PAVED THE WAY TO A HISTORIC MOMENT THIS SUMMER IN BRAZIL
POINT AFTER
By Lee Jenkins
Departments
The 118th Boston Marathon was a story of 32,000 small victories and one massive triumph
By Greg Bishop
Rubin (Hurricane) Carter 1937--2014
How Bubba tamed Augusta with his driver
By Jeff Ritter
On July 5 the Brooklyn Cyclones, a Mets Class A affiliate, will host Seinfeld Night in honor of the sitcom's 25th anniversary. If the cast members took the field, here's what positions they'd play.
Edited By Alexandra Fenwick
By Interview by Dan Patrick
The Case for ... Kawhi Leonard
By Rob Mahoney