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Ta-Nehisi Coates - Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. More

Born in 1975, the product of two beautiful parents. Raised in West Baltimore—not quite The Wire, but sometimes ill all the same. Studied at the Mecca for some years in the mid-’90s. Emerged with a purpose, if not a degree. Slowly migrated up the East Coast with a baby and my beloved, until I reached the shores of Harlem. Wrote some stuff along the way.
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TNC Has Been Very Desirous...

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Oct 12 2009, 9:00 AM ET Comment

Yeah, but really. Jamarcus Russell is shooting for the stars...

If there was a scintilla of goods news for the Raiders, it was that quarterback JaMarcus Russell, the first player selected overall in the 2007 draft, finally nudged his completion percentage for the season north of 40 percent. Russell completed eight of 13 passes for 100 yards to bump his 2009 completion rate to 42.1 percent. The bad news was that Russell was sacked six times and fumbled on three of them.
Oh man. Now he's got some big shoes to fill--Tim Couch, Ki-Jana Carter, Rick Mirer, Steve Emtman, Ryan Leaf etc. Moreover, I question whether other organizations would have seen JaMarcus for what he was. I wasn't watching college. I can't call it.


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