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His was a feel-good story, a young man who worked through a parentless, hard-luck upbringing to become a football star. He earned a college scholarship in the process, always staying on the right side of the law— and it all threatened to unravel when he drank too much on the eve of his high school graduation. The inebriated player walked into a corner store, stole some junk food, and the manager caught him in the act. First came slurred words, then punches, then the police: the manager went to the hospital, and the football player was charged with aggravated assault, the scaffolding of his future collapsing under the weight of one very
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