There is a tendency when writing features about athletes to push them to tell their full story a time or two, when it can have the greatest impact, only to relegate it to anecdotal status once you’re convinced the audience doesn’t want or need to hear about that element of the athlete’s life in great detail any longer.For UFC welterweight Court McGee, the fact that he is a recovering heroin addict and alcoholic who once was clinically dead following a drug overdose has become a “between two commas” descriptor – the story that was told in earnest during his introduction to the UFC audience on S … Read the Full Article Here
Court McGee: The Messenger
There is a tendency when writing features about athletes to push them to tell their full story a time or two, when it can have the greatest impact, only to relegate it to anecdotal status once you’re convinced the audience doesn’t want or need to hear about that element of the athlete’s life in great detail any longer.For UFC welterweight Court McGee, the fact that he is a recovering heroin addict and alcoholic who once was clinically dead following a drug overdose has become a “between two commas” descriptor – the story that was told in earnest during his introduction to the UFC audience on S … Read the Full Article Here