New York Times
The Sam Hurd they thought they knew grew up here, in the shadow of the Alamodome. His family still lives in the house on Indiana Avenue, the one with chipped white paint, cracked windows upstairs and a speedboat marooned in the backyard.
This week, as locals grappled with Hurd’s arrest on federal drug charges, the house appeared empty, the neighborhood quiet except for the man who hung a homemade sign on a pole. It read: I buy ugly houses — for cash!
Those who professed to know Hurd, 26, now wonder if they ever really did. The emotions his arrest elicited — shock, disbelief, anger — are not unusual. But the charges, the scope of what Hurd is accused of doing while playing in the N.F.L., are perhaps without precedent in American sports, which only...
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