"We get only one life, and we don't truly live it until we give it away.
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In 2009, Lisa Fenn was an ESPN television features producer, always on the hunt for unique athlete pieces. Then she and reporter Tom Rinaldi told Leroy Sutton and Dartanyon Crockett's story: two wrestlers at Lincoln-West High School in Cleveland, one of whom was legally blind and the other who had lost his legs in a train accident. After the story aired, Fenn quit her job and devoted her life to helping them. Why? "Blind and legless kids from the ghettos don't get college educations and shiny accolades, but they should. And that is why I stayed. Because hope and love and rejoicing and redemption can happen to kids like them. And people like me, people from the "other side," who can soften life's blows for them, ought to help."
The initial ESPN report helped launch a trust for both men: CarryOn. The trust site lists an update letter from Leroy and another from Dartanyon.
The initial ESPN report helped launch a trust for both men: CarryOn. The trust site lists an update letter from Leroy and another from Dartanyon.
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