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Pat Tillman's Wife Speaks Out for Military Families
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Nov. 11) -- Before he was killed by friendly fire, Army Ranger Pat Tillman wrote that his love for his wife made him question his decision to serve in Afghanistan. "Sometimes I'm overwhelmed with an injection of intense sorrow that is difficult to control. An intense need to be close to Marie, surrounded by her touch, smell, beauty and ease," he wrote in his journal. "It's as though one week of pain is condensed into 5-7 minutes. ... What have I done?" Tillman, of course, is famous for leaving the NFL, where he played for the Arizona Cardinals, to serve in the military, a decision he said ...
The Crucifixion of Pat Tillman
By John Walters - AOL NewsThere's a heartbreaking scene -- there are plenty, in fact -- in the midst of the recently released documentary "The Tillman Story." The surviving members of Pat Tillman's family -- his parents, two brothers, and widow, Marie -- are assembled along a sideline during a pregame ceremony at Arizona State University's Sun Devil Stadium. Tillman's retired Sun Devil uniform number, 42, has just been unveiled. As the family stands nobly in its grief, two lines of Sun Devil cheerleaders, midriffs bare, gyrate their bodies no more than 10 yards in front of them. It is another line of scrimmage, as ...
How the Real Pat Tillman Story Was Finally Exposed
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 20) -- The documentary film "The Tillman Story," about the life -- and mostly the death, subsequent cover-up of the death and struggle to reveal the truth about the death -- of pro-football star turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman hits theaters across America on Friday. The controversial celluloid investigation of his story is being widely praised by critics for its unflinching honesty, raw emotion and sociopolitical importance. But as revealing as the film may be at exposing the efforts within the ranks of the Army and the U.S. government to hide the true nature of Tillman's death from the ...
Pat Tillman Documentary Stirring Controversy
By Kathryn Yao - AOL News(Aug. 13) -- An R-rated letter from Pat Tillman's father to a general and a battle over an R-rating are among the controversies brewing in anticipation of the Aug. 20 release of "The Tillman Story." The documentary is based on the death of the Arizona Cardinals safety turned Army Ranger, who was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan. Last week, Mary Tillman, Pat Tillman's mother, wrote a commentary for the Los Angeles Times, speaking out about Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, her son's death, fallen soldiers and President Barack Obama. Among other things, she emphasizes that the government ...
Steve McNair: A Year Later, Death Remains Unhealed Wound
By Clay Travis - AOL NewsOne year ago, early on the morning of July 4, 2009, Sahel Kazemi, a 20-year-old restaurant employee, shot Steve McNair and then herself in an apartment on a downtown Nashville hill overlooking the Tennessee Titans football stadium. On that day I wrote about the shock the city of Nashville felt and eulogized McNair: "If ever there was a better connection between a city and a player, I haven't seen it. McNair and Nashville were a perfect pair, the lovers who never could quite get it right, the Super Bowl-losing quarterback with a golden arm who was born on Valentine's Day, and the city that ...
Five-Step Drop: A Canadian Pipeline?
By Matt Snyder - AOL NewsFanHouse's college football staff provides you with a personal quarterback. We do the primary and secondary reads for you so you can properly start your day. FanHouse will do a Five-Step Drop several times a week during the summer and then daily once preseason practice starts. 1. You can find talent anywhere. This is true in any sport, really. If a sport is being played, there's likely to be good athletes playing it. Sure, some areas have a higher concentration of talent in certain sports, but there's no reason to block off looking anywhere when trying to build a football team, so long as the ...
Rolling Stone's McChrystal Article: 7 Overlooked Revelations
By Paul Wachter - Politics DailyFor the past two days, news from Washington has been dominated by a Rolling Stone article on General Stanley McChrystal that has yet to appear on newsstands. But media outlets received it in advance, and they published snippets and understandably focused on McChrystal and his staff's disparagement of President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and other administration officials. The ensuing firestorm led the president to summon McChrystal back to Washington, and he may lose his job. Though the new issue won't hit newsstands until Friday, Rolling Stone has now made "The Runaway General," ...
Sports Need to Step It Up for Troops
By Terence Moore - AOL NewsSince we're in the Memorial Day spirit, I'll defer on something involving patriotism and sports to Bob Feller, now 91 years young, who once threw 100 mph fastballs past hitters for an easy trip to the baseball Hall of Fame. He also was a gun captain on a World War II battleship along the way to eight battle stars and other honors. Anyway, I was just thinking: Given that those who run big-time professional sports in the United States keep trying to make the likes of running, dribbling and tackling synonymous with mom, apple pie and the American flag, why don't they go further? Why don't they ...
Pat Tillman, Desmond Howard Among 14 Elected to College Football Hall of Fame
By FanHouse Newswire - AOL NewsNEW YORK (AP) -- The late Pat Tillman and Heisman Trophy winner Desmond Howard are among the 14 newly elected members of the College Football Hall of Fame. The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame announced its latest class Thursday at a news conference Thursday at the Nasdaq Stock Exchange in Manhattan. Tillman (right) played linebacker for Arizona State from 1994-97 and gave up an NFL career to enlist in the Army in 2002. He was killed while serving in Afghanistan in 2004. Howard was a wide receiver for Michigan and won the Heisman 1991. The newly elected Hall of Fame ...
'Pat's Run,' a Living Tribute to Pat Tillman That Just Keeps Growing
By John Walters - AOL NewsTEMPE, Ariz. -- With each succeeding year since his tragic death, Pat Tillman's army continues to grow. On Saturday morning more than 28,000 people lined up outside Sun Devil Stadium to participate in the sixth annual Pat's Run, a 4.2-mile run (Tillman wore No. 42 while at Arizona State) that is staged in his honor. So popular has the race become since its 2005 inception, when 5,000 runners participated, that a few hundred runners had already crossed the finish line before the last of the bib-clad had even crossed starting line. "I think there has been a new generation that has discovered ...
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