Robert Quinn offered hope in player's time of need

Posted May 2, 2011
Soon after an operation to shrink the tumor and reduce the swelling to his brain, Robert Quinn was back playing sports and on his way to becoming a scholarship athlete and a future NFL first-round draft pick. And now here he was at the hospital trying to provide some inspiration for another young football player named Lavelle Sloan, who had recently learned that he too had a tumor lodged on his brain. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

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