Intercepted: how temptation and hubris brought an NFL player to ruin
Intercepted: The Rise and Fall of Cornerback Darryl Henley, , University of Nebraska Press. Editor’s note: the following is an excerpt from Intercepted: The Rise and Fall of Cornerback Darryl Henley, published this week by the University of Nebraska Press. McKnight spent eight years investigating how an NFL player ended up in one of the country’s most high-security prisons, a downfall precipitated by Henley’s involvement with drug dealing, murder, and a young St. Louis Ram’s cheerleader named Tracy Donaho. McKnight, a Hermosa Beach resident, is a contributing writer for Sports Illustrated and was formerly a personal trainer locally at The Yard. He has quickly made a name for himself as one of the finest emerging sports journalists in the United States. As his Sports Illustrated colleague Austin Murphy writes of Intercepted, “The twisted, tragic, stranger-than-fiction journey of Darryl Henley is sensational in the hand of Michael McKnight, a gifted storyteller who also happens to be one of America’s best investigative journalists.” Read an interview with McKnight. The black box was designed by a prisoner. Darryl Henley would not find this out until later, but it was true. The…
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