Buzz Bissinger is a columnist for The Daily Beast and the author of A Prayer for the City, focusing on the poverty and violence of urban America in the 1990s.

MEA CULPA

Buzz Bissinger says he relied on a manipulative liar who insisted he didn’t win his cycling championships through doping. A Pulitzer Prize winner’s mea culpa.

Derek Jeter

Derek Jeter always played with an air of invincibility, but faces a difficult recovery after breaking his ankle. Buzz Bissinger says he has to believe the Yankees star will return.