http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/sports/football/18coles.html?oref=login It's worth signing in to read IMO. Quoted: Coles, 27, is immensely popular with his Jets teammates, and intensely private. There is a reason, he said, he has stiff-armed the world at large, an explanation unknown to even his closest friends.
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From the ages of 10 to 13, Coles was molested by a man his mother later
married.
To endure something like that "is devastating," Coles said after practice one day last week as the Jets prepared for their home opener on Sunday against the Miami Dolphins. "My trust level for people just left," he said. "It just kind of destroyed my relationships, with allowing new people into my life."
Aren't there feel good stories in every single sport? Normally, we reserve this type of coverage for the Olympic years so that the networks can fill broadcast time.
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Aren't there feel good stories in every single sport? Normally, we reserve this type of coverage for the Olympic years so that the networks can fill broadcast time.
RBR (and the world, really, ya know?) needs all the feel-good vibrations it can get.
This is Mr. Sweetness and Light Himself, signing off,