If You Have A Heart Left, This Story Will Touch It [High School Football]
Deadspin —
... for you cynical bastards, inured to a summer of miserable stories. With the death of a high school football player's grandmother, the only parent he ever knew, he gained two new foster fathers: his coaches. He's a senior now, the star running back at Southwest HS in San Antonio. But when he was a freshman, Tre'vion Johnson's grandmother died of a heart attack. He had lived with her since birth, even called her "Mom." Johnson would be a ward of the state, if not for two of his coaches. In stepped Southwest head football coach Matt ...
Friday Morning Dump
Ballin' is a Habit —
... Luke Winn catches up with Denis Clemente. - Bobby Gonzalez got a contract extension. - Evan Turner interview. - UMass welcoming back Calipari? - Fan takes on the new NC State jerseys. - Big East schedules released. - If this story is true, it is one of the funniest things I've ever heard. - Gotta love rookie hazing. - Home plate double play. - Coaches take in HS football player. - So Jordan wasn't actually cut in high school? ...
