Leifheit stays positive despite disappointing end to UNC football career
Posted Jul 26, 2013
T.J. Leifheit didn’t have to be told that his college football career was over. He could feel it in his bones – or in this case, his chronically sore right ankle and a bad back that finally did him in. “Looking at how much damage I had in my back it just wasn’t smart to go on,” the now-former North Carolina offensive lineman and Wilmington native said Friday.
(Wilmington Star News)
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