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Meet the Real-Life Hero Coach Played by Kevin Costner in 'McFarland, USA'
The rains finally let up about 30 minutes ago, and a chilly wind now blows across the tiny central California agricultural town of McFarland.
A group of high school boys in running shoes and gray sweatshirts crowd around Jim White as he climbs onto a bicycle. On a wet patch of asphalt, just down the road from the razor wire festooned fences of a local prison, they stomp their legs, trying to stay warm.
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“How far we running today?” asks one of the boys.
White, 73, who retired from coaching McFarland High’s cross-country team a decade ago but still shows up for practices, scratches his tanned jaw, glances over at the team’s current coach, then shrugs his shoulders.
“Down the road a ways,” he says. “We’ll meet you there Then we’ll figure out where we want you to go.”
“Okay, White,” several voices shout in unison. The group starts off at a quick pace, laughing as they disappear over a hill cro