A profile of TCU coach Gary Patterson, who 25 years ago was a tumbleweed assistant clinging to a Division II job and living in a shared house in Sacramento with the author:

We walk through the soupy evening to the 50-yard line. From there the sky-high skeleton of the west grandstand looms like a giant frozen wave, the next piece in a $160 million reconstruction of Amon G. Carter Stadium. Some $143 million has already been raised, and Patterson is acknowledged as the man who not only sewed up most of the donations but also made the project possible. He turns slowly. Black clouds loom, lightning flashing. And it’s then that I realize that a quarter century ago I was onto the best sports story I’d ever know—and I almost missed it.