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• The Man Who Never Was

  by Mike Sager + Follow

  Esquire | May 2009

  Twenty years ago, Todd Marinovich was guaranteed to be one of the greatest quarterbacks ever to play the game of football. Engineered to be. He was drafted ahead of Brett Favre. Today he's a recovering junkie. Scenes from the chaotic life of a boy never designed to be a man.

• Bobby Jindal, All American

  by Mike Sager + Follow

  Esquire | October 2008

  You just watched the youngest governor in the country and the first Indian-American governor in history rebut President Obama's pseudo-State of the Union address. That's just the beginning.

• The Devil and John Holmes

  by Mike Sager + Follow

  Rolling Stone | May 1989

  John Holmes was a porn star. Eddie Nash was a drug lord. Their association ended in one of the most brutal mass murders in the history of Los Angeles.