Granderson: The accusations against Brett Favre are not just another NFL scandal (via latimesopinion)
“The more I learned, we wanted to get into the business of giving people the potential to break their cycle of poverty,” Dunn told CNN last year.
It is the antithesis of the Walter Payton award which so many players aspire to win. An award, by the way, that is named after someone born in Columbia, Miss., which currently has a poverty rate of 35.5%.
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