Marvin Austin Is on the Field at Last

Posted Aug 14, 2012
Football had already been taken away from Marvin Austin once, publicly and shamefully. So when he lost it for another year last August, he was prepared to cope. Austin, a 23-year-old defensive tackle, hasn't played a meaningful down in two years—first due to an NCAA suspension that cost him his last college season, then because he tore a pectoral muscle in a preseason game against the Chicago Bears. (Wall Street Journal)

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