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The Play of The Year - The Jake Porter Story
Sports Illustrated Online ^
| Wednesday November 13, 2002 9:35 AM
| Rick Reilly
Posted on 11/14/2002 11:56:22 AM PST by SAMWolf
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:01:37 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Jake Porter is 17, but he can't read, can barely scrawl his first name and often mixes up the letters at that. So how come we're all learning something from him?
In three years on the Northwest High football team, in McDermott, Ohio, Jake had never run with the ball. Or made a tackle. He'd barely ever stepped on the field. That's about right for a kid with chromosomal fragile X syndrome, a disorder that is a common cause of mental retardation.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: football; sports
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To: SAMWolf
This is a great story. Thanks Sam!
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11/14/2002 10:20:13 PM PST
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Jen
To: SAMWolf
Thanx for the ping, Sam! We get bombarded by news of all the ugliness in the world. "Feel good" stories like this are too few.
A big thumbs up to both coaches and to the players on the teams for making Jake the "hero" of the game.
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11/15/2002 3:06:28 AM PST
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radu
To: SAMWolf
Friday football bump.
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11/15/2002 9:21:44 AM PST
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TomB
To: Liz; Howlin; Mudboy Slim; Snow Bunny
Never quit - bump...
To: Libloather
Yep...Relentlessness is a Virtue...MUD
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