ESPN’s award-winning prime time newsmagazine E:60 begins its summer run Tuesday, July 19, at 7 p.m. ET, combining the best of television storytelling with investigative journalism. Reporters Jeremy Schaap, Lisa Salters, Rachel Nichols and Michael Smith contribute.

E:60 stories, interviews and features Tuesday:

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AN ORDINARY MAN: CURTIS GRANDERSON

Yankees All-Star Curtis Granderson could get away with living the bling lifestyle – after all, he’s got a loud contract on the proudest team in baseball. But that’s not who Granderson is. Exemplifying this, as E:60’s Rachel Nichols discovered, is his bond with the family of Brian Bluhm, a lifelong Detroit Tigers fan who was gunned down in the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007.

 

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DEAD SOLID PERFECT

After Mike Reeder lost both legs in Vietnam, he returned to the U.S. looking for purpose and direction – and found them during a chance encounter in a golf pro shop. Years later, as a devoted golfer, he’s chasing a different dream: to be the first wheelchair golfer to play the Old Course at St. Andrew’s. E:60 follows him to Scotland.

 

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NOTHING BUT EYES

The All-American Soap Box Derby in Akron, Ohio, is the culmination of the race year for 550 kids from around the world.  But for one family in 2010, victory meant so much more. E:60’s Chris Connelly reports.

 

GREEN AKERS: MICHELLE AKERS SAVES THE HORSES

Michelle Akers is best known as one of the most accomplished players of all time from the U.S. women’s national team. But she’s more than that. E:60 reporter Tom Farrey updates the story on one of the world’s greatest athletes, her fight for the horses she loves and the sacrifices she’s willing to make to keep them alive.

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