wnyc.org / 93.9fm / am 820

Coincidentally, just last night on one of the sports channels (I think it was MSG), they ran a half-hour story about a graduating senior at USC who was writing a story about the USC football team for the student newspaper and decided, as an angle, to try out for the team -- and made it (as a scrawny wide receiver)! He gave up a job offer to play the following fall, but suffered a dislocated shoulder in spring practice. He then had to choose between going on with his life or rehab in the hope of making the team and getting into a game. He decided to come back, and became a campus cause celebre. He came back in November, and the coach put him in for one play in the final game of the year (when they were so far ahead that he wouldn't affect the outcome).

I don't know much about sports, but every time I hear this guy on the radio I listen and learn - this sounds like a great story. Glad to hear you survived.