I know from the Ashland Daily Independent, Aaron Snyder and Mark Maynard have written some great articles over the years that not only reflect on football, but some are reflected on the lives of the athletes. Are there articles from other parts of the state that you have read that just stand out in your mind? Not just articles about football, but articles that ties football into their life.

Here is recent article by the Independent telling a story of a High School Football Player and his battle with Cancer, brings sports and life into perspective.

 

Cancer can't tackle LCHS senior athlete

 

By Zack Klemme The Independent

LOUISA Cancer has taken most of Warren Price’s senior football season away. And the 17-year-old Lawrence County student wasn’t real happy about it, grinning ruefully, “I hate that more than anything.”

 

But in the grand scheme of things, life’s looking pretty good.

 

“If football was the main purpose of your life, this would be pretty bad,” Chuck Price, Price’s dad, said as the son nodded his assent. “But since football’s not the main purpose of your life — glorifying God is our purpose — this makes it easier.

 

“It’d be a lot easier for his senior year to go out there and have fun, but things happen, and you just gotta take those things that happen in life.”

 

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Elkins has firm grip - The Independent Online: Local Sports

 

Aaron Snyder

The Independent

Just shy of 4,500 passing yards. Fifty-nine touchdowns (and only 24 interceptions). One-thousand-plus rushing yards, with 13 scores tagged along.

 

Oh, don't forget the school-record 27 wins he's earned as a starting quarterback.

 

Get this: Adam Elkins would trade all of it away.

 

Even so, Elkins remarkably spun a tragic event into a turn of events. It's a turn, though, that he wished he wouldn't have been forced to take.

This one really hits me hard. It is about Raceland, but it is an amazing story.

Here is recent article by the Independent telling a story of a High School Football Player and his battle with Cancer, brings sports and life into perspective.

 

Cancer can't tackle LCHS senior athlete

 

By Zack Klemme The Independent

LOUISA Cancer has taken most of Warren Price’s senior football season away. And the 17-year-old Lawrence County student wasn’t real happy about it, grinning ruefully, “I hate that more than anything.”

 

But in the grand scheme of things, life’s looking pretty good.

 

“If football was the main purpose of your life, this would be pretty bad,” Chuck Price, Price’s dad, said as the son nodded his assent. “But since football’s not the main purpose of your life — glorifying God is our purpose — this makes it easier.

 

“It’d be a lot easier for his senior year to go out there and have fun, but things happen, and you just gotta take those things that happen in life.”

 

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Great article. That is one of the best articles of the year, if not the best.