1 month ago
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
This show rocks!!
It's on ESPN and the 1 hour show is about sports, go figure since it's on ESPN.
These sports stories are FANTASTIC. In a time when the "news" is all murders and gangs and failing schools, and the failing economy, this show has some of the coolest people around.
Some famous, like Tiger or Dwanye Wade, some Nascar dude and Brett Farve. But the majority are people who surmount amazing odds and they do it without the need for admiration or glad handing.
There was the 8 yo boy was born with a cancerous tumor in is leg and his parents made the decision to amputate it at the pelvis. He plays soccer (he was so good he had to move leagues), football (asked his coach if there was anyway he could play QB and they could run the shotgun formation), wrestling etc.
There was the man who walked every hole of the PGA tour (900 miles in 44 weeks). He has cerbal palsy.
There was the young man who never saw his mother sober until he was 19 yo. He saw her shoot up, deal, go to jail, and then start a ministry. He is Dwayne Wade.
There was the 20 something yo who is bound to a wheelchair and helped coach the Hawaii football team. That same team then carried him up stairs, in his chair, so he could be in a team photo when they won a major game.
There are any number of stories where people saved a community, gave it hope, or at the very least helped another individual.
I cry every time I watch this show. Not only for the truly spectacular stories, but also for the reminder that the news at 4, 430 5, 530, 6, and 11 (do we really need that MUCH news?) does not encompass us.
These stories, E:60, encompasses us as a people, all the good and bad, the triumphs, the heartache, and the broken roads to redemption.
It's on ESPN and the 1 hour show is about sports, go figure since it's on ESPN.
These sports stories are FANTASTIC. In a time when the "news" is all murders and gangs and failing schools, and the failing economy, this show has some of the coolest people around.
Some famous, like Tiger or Dwanye Wade, some Nascar dude and Brett Farve. But the majority are people who surmount amazing odds and they do it without the need for admiration or glad handing.
There was the 8 yo boy was born with a cancerous tumor in is leg and his parents made the decision to amputate it at the pelvis. He plays soccer (he was so good he had to move leagues), football (asked his coach if there was anyway he could play QB and they could run the shotgun formation), wrestling etc.
There was the man who walked every hole of the PGA tour (900 miles in 44 weeks). He has cerbal palsy.
There was the young man who never saw his mother sober until he was 19 yo. He saw her shoot up, deal, go to jail, and then start a ministry. He is Dwayne Wade.
There was the 20 something yo who is bound to a wheelchair and helped coach the Hawaii football team. That same team then carried him up stairs, in his chair, so he could be in a team photo when they won a major game.
There are any number of stories where people saved a community, gave it hope, or at the very least helped another individual.
I cry every time I watch this show. Not only for the truly spectacular stories, but also for the reminder that the news at 4, 430 5, 530, 6, and 11 (do we really need that MUCH news?) does not encompass us.
These stories, E:60, encompasses us as a people, all the good and bad, the triumphs, the heartache, and the broken roads to redemption.
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