amazing!!! how all athletes SHOULD be...

[elmer fudd]

Boy battling cancer gets call from Tim Tebow
Updated: Monday, 12 Dec 2011, 10:31 AM EST
Published : Thursday, 08 Dec 2011, 11:43 PM EST


By Tracy Jacim
FOX 35 News
LAKE WORTH, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - About the same time we show up to meet 8-year-old Blake Appleton, so does his former kindergarten teacher, with books in hand.

Everyone seems to know just how precious time is for Blake, especially his mother, Miranda.

"Without treatment, he my only have 6 months," said Miranda Appleton.

If you think little Blake doesn't realize mom is talking about how long he has to live, you're wrong. As unbelievable as it may sound, his mom tells us not only does he understand that he is very sick with brain cancer and has a zero chance of recovery, but he also seems to want desperately to help his mother accept his fate.

Miranda tells us of the day Blake told her he no longer wanted to be treated for cancer.

"We're in the restroom of all place, and he starts to cry. I asked him why he was crying, and he told me, 'Mommy, I don't want you to be unhappy with me, but I don't want to do anymore chemo. I can't handle it anymore.'"

Blake acknowledges that his reasons are private, but during our time with him, we learn he is happy to finally be out of bed, playing, laughing, and not in a hospital.

And Miranda tells us, after long talks with his doctors, he told them the same.

Doctors diagnosed Blake with a brain tumor in 2008, and after two incredibly misleading and painfully temporary remissions, years of chemotherapy and surgery, the cancer came back with a vengeance, spreading to his spine.

Doctors told his mother and Blake that it is now untreatable.

Miranda tells us, "I don't have time to cry. It might be a moment I'm missing with him."

And one of those moments has to do with Blake's love of Tim Tebow and football. He proudly showed us a football ball signed by the former Florida Gator and current Denver Broncos quarterback. He then he proudly explained how Tim Tebow called him on December 1st and what the two discussed.

Blake says, "He told me he was going to meet me. That's about it!!"

So will Tebow make a visit? Maybe.

But in the meantime, we asked this young boy, who seems to be wise beyond his eight years, what his Christmas wish might be, bracing ourselves for a wish possibly unattainable.

But instead, we got, "More shoes!"

We're not certain how Tim Tebow heard of Blake, but if you caught Tebow in a post-game interview this past Sunday, you would have seen him tell a reporter his most memorable moment of the week was talking with Blake Appleton.




he is THE MAN!!!! GOD BLESS little Blake!!!

 

[vinnie]

:0003

 

[Zamo]

I am with you on this post and thanks for sharing!!! I watched it this week on NFL Channel's Sound FX! It was a great in game look of Tebow. It was frigin awesome!!! He told all of his teammates to go over and say hi to Blake during pre-game. The fact that the Broncos/Tebow won the game the way they did and Blake was there....is something extremely special.

Thanks for posting this.....:0074 :0074


***For those that haven't watched yet ....go to NFL Network and watch a replay of this weeks Sound FX***

 

[gjn23]

and then there's this guy

By Jeremy Gorner and Vaughn McClure, Tribune reporters

5:31 p.m. CST, December 15, 2011
Chicago Bears receiver Sam Hurd was arrested Wednesday night outside a Rosemont restaurant after he accepted a kilogram of cocaine from a confidential informant and an undercover federal agent posing as a drug supplier, according to federal charges filed Thursday in Dallas.

Hurd was charged with one count of conspiring to possess half a kilogram of cocaine with the intent to distribute it. Hurd appeared in federal court in Chicago in late afternoon and will remain in custody overnight while his attorney arranges bond.

Hurd, dressed in street clothes -- fashionable jeans and a gray T-shirt -- stood ramrod straight in front of the judge and replied, "Yes, sir," to various questions about whether he understood his rights.

At the Wednesday night meeting, authorities allege that Hurd negotiated to buy five to 10 kilograms of cocaine and 1,000 pounds of marijuana a week for distribution in the Chicago area. He agreed to pay $25,000 for each kilogram of cocaine and $450 a pound for the marijuana, according to the charges.

Hurd said at the meeting that he plays for the Bears, gets out of practice at about 5:30 p.m., and would pay them on the next day, authorities said. Bears players are paid on Thursdays.

Hurd told the undercover agent and informant that he and someone else distributed about four kilograms of cocaine each week in the Chicago area but that their supplier wasn't able to meet their needs, according to the criminal complaint.

The Bears issued the following statement: "We are aware of Sam's arrest and are continuing to gather details surrounding it. We are disappointed whenever these circumstances arise. We will deal with them appropriately once we have all the information."

Bears coach Lovie Smith said after practice Thursday that Hurd remains a member of the team.

"I am in shock over it," Smith said. "Never saw it coming. My dealings with Sam here as most of you would probably say the same has all been good. He's a guy that showed up every day to go to work."

Hurd, who played at Northern Illinois, signed a three-year contract with the Bears this offseason after playing the previous five seasons with the Dallas Cowboys. The veteran receiver has been primarily a special teams contributor for the Bears.

Bears receiver Roy Williams, who played with Hurd for three seasons with the Cowboys, said he was "shocked" by the news.

"It's a situation I don't want anyone to be in, especially a close friend, a teammate that I have been playing with now for four or five years now, especially a guy from Texas with a wife and daughter," Williams said Thursday at Halas Hall. "So, it's tough for me just because I am not into drugs or anything like that. I know it has to be tough for him because he has his family. It's a choice he made and there are consequences with choices that you make."

Asked for his thoughts about Hurd, Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher said, "It's sad for him. I'm not sure what's going on, but you never want to hear about one of your teammates, something like this happening to them.

"He's a good teammate. That's what I know of him. He comes to work every day and works hard. Outside of here, I don't know him very well. But he comes to work every day and practices hard and plays hard. That's all I know of him. He's a friendly guy."

Hurd was inactive for the season opener against the Atlanta Falcons because of a sprained ankle, and has eight receptions for 109 yards on the season.

The complaint alleged that Hurd first came to the attention of federal authorities in July when the confidential informant tipped off agents that a man -- later learned to be a Hurd associate -- was attempting to coordinate the purchase of about four kilograms of cocaine in the Dallas area. The associate wanted to complete the deal that day so the buyer could transport the cocaine to a northern destination that same day, authorities charged.

At the direction of authorities, the informant met with the Hurd associate. After the meeting, Dallas County police conducted a traffic stop of the Hurd associate and recovered $88,000 in cash and a marijuana plant.

Hurd, who owned the vehicle pulled over by police, later reached out to federal agents and claimed that he had placed the $88,000 into the vehicle and then turned over the vehicle to the associate -- who worked at a car repair shop -- for maintenance and detailing work, according to the charges.

Hurd produced a bank statement that he said showed he had withdrawn the $88,000 from his account, but authorities said the statement did not reflect that size of a withdrawal.

Hurd's three-year contract with the Bears had a maximum value of $5.15 million ($4.15 million base total), and Hurd received a $1.35 million signing bonus. His base pay this season was $685,000. The Bears could pursue trying to recover some of the signing bonus.

The investigation is being handled by the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Dallas.

 

[THE KOD]

Hurd needs to be Tebowed

 

[baby johnson]

Hurd needs to be Tebowed

now thats funny