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History was made at the 2015 Belmont Stakes when American Pharoah won the Triple Crown, the first since Affirmed in 1978. As magnificent as the champion is, the team behind him has been all too human while on the road to immortality. Written by an award-winning New York Times sportswriter, American Pharoah is the definitive account not only of how the ethereal colt won the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Stakes, but how he changed lives. Through extensive interviews, Drape explores the making of an exceptional racehorse, chronicling key events en route to history.

The Saint Makers chronicles the unlikely alliance between Father Hotze and Dr. Andrea Ambrosi, a country priest and a cosmopolitan Italian canon lawyer, as the two piece together the life of a long dead Korean War hero and military chaplain and fashion it into a case for eternal divinity. Joe Drape offers a front row seat to the Catholic Church's saint-making machinery—which, in many ways, has changed little in 2,000 years-and examines how, or if, faith and science can coexist.

"Legal Heavyweights Enter Round 3 on Gambling" is from the Sports section of The New York Times. It was written by Joe Drape and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

This year, amid dissent over how it handles these kinds of cases, Stanford changed its procedure in a way that victims rights advocates say favors the accused. It requires a unanimous verdict from a three-member board, making it an outlier among prestigious universities.

"Most Say It’s Rape. But for Stanford, That’s Not Enough." is from the December 29, 2016 Sports section of The New York Times. It was written by Joe Drape and Marc Tracy and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Texas Attorney General Deems Daily Fantasy Sports Illegal" is from the Sports section of The New York Times. It was written by Joe Drape and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.