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SEC Style Runners...Brock and Golston

College scouts have gained two more special runners from the class of 2017 in Darius Golston and Vershawn Brock.  Golston comes out of Seneca Valley High, in Germantown, Md.  His film pretty much says it all.  His has fantastic cutting ability with enough acceleration in and out of those cuts to take advantage of any creases in the defense.  At 5’10 and nearly 200 pounds, Golston has the stout…

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america, sometimes.

Fresh Air recently broadcast a really interesting set of interviews about a program at Philadelphia's Temple University Hospital to help reduce violent crime (mainly due to guns) in some of Philly's most criminally-troubled areas. The first half of the interview is with a surgeon at the hospital and the director of the program, and the second half is with a gun violence victim who participated in the program. It's really interesting, and reminded me of how devastating and illuminating those Harper High episodes of TAL (cf. part i and part ii) were. 

Clearly listening to public radio isn't the only answer, but investigating and sharing the stories of people whom we might not necessarily hear about are vital to understanding how our culture deals with violence, and hopefully can contribute to a dialogue on how we approach gun control throughout America. 

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