Incidents like today puts things in perspective.
Sometimes reporters use words like courage, battling, playing through adversity to describe events in sports.
But, today; these words carry a special meaning. Let us honor an athlete who believed and acted towards this belief. A man compelled by what he thought was right and turned his back on a lucrative pro sports career and his young family.
Somehow pro sports seem belittled by true courage, real comittment and sacrifice beyond imagination.
Sometimes reporters use words like courage, battling, playing through adversity to describe events in sports.
But, today; these words carry a special meaning. Let us honor an athlete who believed and acted towards this belief. A man compelled by what he thought was right and turned his back on a lucrative pro sports career and his young family.
Somehow pro sports seem belittled by true courage, real comittment and sacrifice beyond imagination.