Youth sports in Newtown, Conn.: a new normal
Posted Aug 18, 2013
Eight months after 20-year-old Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary with a gun and killed 26 defenseless people -- 20 of whom were between the ages of 6 and 7 -- Newtown is trying to transition from its state of shock and grief to normal, or whatever that means for now.
(ESPN.com)
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