A SHORT MOVEBy Katherine HillMitch Wilkins, a child football prodigy caught up in family drama, has never met his dad. His more grounded Uncle Tim is his live-in male role model and his first coach, with a fundamentals philosophy the other boys don’t care for despite big wins. Mitch’s mom is the sadder-but-wiser type, who doesn’t let Tim all the way into their lives, dotes on her son. He was born practically with a football in his hands. Mitch is pure purpose and focus; the others are left to feel the feelings, worry the worries, lose the things that get lost.

Source: New York Times June 26, 2020 16:41 UTC