Marcus Dupree

A news by 4usnews:In a small town Pennsylvania, Mississippi, a large sign once stood tall, that read “Welcome to Philadelphia, the House of Marcus Dupree”.
Today, it no longer exists.In the latest ESPN ’30 on 30 ‘documentary series, “the best that ever was,” Dupre is the focus, portraying him as a talented athlete who made a bad choice, which forced him down the path to oblivion.

Back in 1983, in a sophomore season Dupre in college, he left the University of Oklahoma, as the top back in the country because he did not get along with his coach, Barry Switzerland. He eventually found himself in USFL, before a knee injury sidelined him for more than five years. He played two seasons in the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams before retiring for good.

The documentary continues to back the point that Dupre was one of the most gifted athletes and physical specimens, not only in his time, but ever. A few bad turns, one big mistake, and some of the complacency Dupree cost him his career that many throughout the film he said would be the biggest in football history.

The film begins this day, showing his friends back in his hometown, he worked as a truck driver. He took part in a football match at his old school, the Philadelphia High School Tornadoes.

ESPN shows footage of high school days Dupre. Dupre was so feared that opposing teams would squib kick football on kickoffs just so his friends could not kick the ball back for a touchdown.

Dupree said while imitating to attract a racially divided city together. He scored 87 touchdowns in total during his playing time in high school, breaking the record set by Herschel Walker, one by one. After agreeing to sign with Texas A & M University, Dupre changed his mind when Billy Sims of the Detroit Lions came through a private plane to his court at the University of Oklahoma.

After a slow start in his freshman season, his friends were dominant in Oklahoma, becoming the best running back in the country.

But going into his sophomore year, the history of Sports Illustrated Dupre pit against his coach. Dupree, a lazy practice habits are faced with the ideals of his coaches, who preached the best. While his friends put up stellar numbers, injuries were limiting his play. Concussion he suffered from Texas in the fourth game of his sophomore year led his friends to go in Oklahoma.

The film never gets to the bottom of why Dupri to quit smoking. Dupree shows that he does not want to waste my time playing for a coach he does not get along with. Several years later, his friends are in USFL. Less than two years after that, his friends have suffered bad injuries that cost him the hope that the highly touted NFL draft pick.

Dupree said that he had received a total of about $ 300,000 of his $ 6 million contract to play for the Portland Breakers in the USFL.

In one of the more dynamic parts of the movie, his friends, three years after his injury, decided to work in the garage of his mother, to make it back into football. Dupree shows the camera his dilapidated garage and a chair where his mother was looking at him that he can not commit suicide. grit Dupre eventually led him to the Los Angeles Rams NFL, where he played in 15 games in two seasons before the cut.

At the end of the film, Dupree said that he regretted leaving Oklahoma. He snatches the book shows him playing days and he gets emotional while watching a movie currently in high school.

Although a truly remarkable comeback, the focus of the film is everything: the story is incredibly gifted athlete, who pursued a bad choice. Dupree could be there with the great...

Josiah Viera

A news by 4usnews:Baseball has the ability to touch hearts and change lives. Even the T-ball.

Take Josiah Viera, 6, Little League for the Tri-Valley White Sox in Hegins, Penn., Rural area just over 100 miles of diamond Major League Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, where his beloved Phillies play.

Faith is an extremely rare genetic condition called Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome, known as “premature aging disease, which prevented him from growing or gaining weight. He is only 27 inches tall and weighs just over 15 pounds.

He is also prone to numerous complications, and in September 2005 he was on life support because of chronic infection, collapsed lung and pneumonia.

He was not supposed to make it through the night, but he survived. Perhaps it was a true love of his life that kept him going.

Viera told his story for ESPN E: 60 program on Tuesday.

“Baseball makes me happy,” Viera told ESPN. “I like real baseball because I like to run bases.”

And against its rapidly growing opportunities, he miraculously was able to do it.

As 7-year-old sister of Josiah, Daisha, described, it is not difficult to guess that she would hear from his brother every morning.

“When he wakes up, he wanted to,” Nana, playing baseball with me, mom, play baseball with me, my sister, to play baseball with me, “Daisha told ESPN.” He just loves to play baseball all day. ”

So much that he took the initiative to approach the local Little League coach, Sam Bordner, and ask for a place in the register of the White Sox. The experiment was supposed to last only one game, as Josiah did most of them, connecting with the ball and do what he always wanted to do: speed down the line toward first.

“He hit the ball,” his grandfather, Dave Bone, told ESPN. “It’s not far – five, six feet -. And he flew to first base His pants fell down, he tries to escape his hat bouncing, and he [is] as fast as it can go, [waving] her little hands to try to get to first base.

“He makes it to first base, looks at the coach and goes:” Yes! “He’s just in heaven.

“He likes to play the game. Not to win or lose. It’s just like swinging a bat, ball and run the bases.”

And it’s even better.

Josiah got to play two games and, despite suffering two mini-strokes in June this year, he came in rather spend a memorable final day of the season.

After a story in Viera spread to a number of communities in the area, a crowd of more than 1.000 converged on the field of Hegins in 2010 Josiah Swan Song T-ball.

State representative Tim Seip participate, along with Little League administrators, Radio and ESPN.

Greg Yanchuck, Lions Club Little League coach from nearby Mahanoy City, brought about 30 players and their parents from the other small teams League event.

“A lot of people,” Hosea said ESPN.

Funds were collected for health care and Joses, and T-shirts were sold and Hegins Fire Company is working actively creating fire carnival at the end of June in honor of Josiah.

“I had a lot of people come to me since then – adults, young children, teenagers, who play softball and baseball – and say that he was his hero because he did not let his condition stop him,” Josiah’s mother, Jennifer Vera , told ESPN.

“He was put here to touch people’s lives.”

Life of Josiah was raised in June, when he and his family were treated on the day of the game the Phillies after his sixth birthday and Daisha in the seventh.

The next day turned out better than he expected.

Josiah accompany the club on Phillies slugger Ryan Howard, where he met with other players and got a bat, batting gloves and an autographed ball, according to the newspaper. In addition, the center fielder Shane Victorino signed jersey Daisha’s. The next day, Vieras went to the Philadelphia Zoo, where Josiah got to ride a camel.

“My goal has always been, in everything he ever did … [that] within a period of Josiah with us, let the experience,” Jennifer Viera told ESPN. “Let it be a kid.”

By adopting these measures, which seem simple to most, Josiah Viera has inspired people throughout central Pennsylvania, and now across America.

“They know what his condition, and they think:” [It's] legs he has, but boy, they can work base, “the grandmother of Josiah, Deb Bone, said ESPN.

“I think that’s what really touched the people – that although he has the disease, he gives his all......