Marshawn Lynch came out of retirement to play for the Raiders. “I never used to see white kids walking their dogs and riding their bikes,” the 30-year-old Oakland Tech football coach tells me. The vehicle screeches to a stop a few yards from us, the door swings open and out steps the driver, Marshawn Lynch. Marshawn Lynch is playing in a very different Oakland from the one where he grew up. He attended sixth-grade graduations and stopped by Oakland Tech practices and organized group bike rides from Oakland to Berkeley.

Source: Washington Post September 22, 2017 12:59 UTC