By Alexandra Pere/ El Inde When Gary Nabhan was growing up in the Indiana Dunes, Indiana, he remembered being sleepy in the middle of his class one day. Looking out the window, he studied the leaves of a tree nearby. Nabhan, who would later find out he is color blind, thought the leaves had odd…
Listen to the audio story By Kate Jaeger/ El Inde In a four-bedroom house filled with empty Gatorade bottles, baseball bats and mattresses on the floor, live five minor league baseball players. One of them is Ryan Haug, a 6-foot, 165-pound catcher. In 2018, Haug played baseball for The University of Arizona and would later…
By Mish DeCarlo/El Inde The offseason came early for athletes this year amidst the coronavirus pandemic, but the routine has stayed the same for junior hockey player Andrew DeCarlo. As he has every offseason, DeCarlo uses this time to refocus, recharge, and rehabilitate his body. Every morning starts with a run around his Southern California…
By David Conger/El Inde Just some weeks ago, Covid-19 was a mere punchline to light-hearted jokes everywhere in the U.S. But now, with more than tens of thousands of U.S. lives lost to this invisible enemy, it is no longer a joke nor an unforeseeable fate. It has affected everyone on this planet, all in…
By Heaven Rodriguez-Elliott/El Inde Never in a million years did I think I would be living through one of the most confusing times — like I am today. I was supposed to be getting ready for graduation, ready for the next step of my life and going to classes. Most days, I used to hate…
