Isaiah Austin's Career Over After Marfan Diagnosis... A Team Should Draft Him Anyway

((HT: ESPN))

Isaiah Austin has overcome a lot to be a tremendous college basketball player- losing the sight out of an eye at the age of 8 and having to deal with all the stigma that comes with it. But keeping the loss of sight out of the public discussion until only recently has reinforced the public opinion that the Baylor player really is someone that is to be admired.

After his red-shirt sophomore season, he declared for the NBA Draft. But a diagnosis of Marfan's Syndrome has taken his dream and stopped it four days before the draft.

Here's Holly Rowe's interview with Austin after his mother broke the news to him


The HQ hopes that a franchise will draft Austin in the second round and make him an ambassador of the sport for their franchise.

San Antonio would make a great example of it...

Just thinking out loud...

Chris Draft's Story Of Love, Loss, And Challenge

((HT: 11Alive.com))

Full disclosure, the HQ has known and covered Chris Draft as a Falcon and an NFL'er for a while... stand-up guy, cool guy, great soundbite, 6th-rounder who has made a living hunting people down...

A year-and-a-half ago, Chris' wife Keasha was diagnosed with lung cancer- and, no, she wasn't a smoker...

They were married just after Thanksgiving and she passed after Christmas...

But Chris wants to make sure everyone remembers Keasha and their fight...

FOSG Randy Waters sat down with Chris...


Here's Team Draft's website... and our thoughts and prayers go out to the Draft family in this hard time...