Homeless Former UNC Player Balks at Efforts to Help Him
Posted Mar 11, 2015
Ryan Hoffman, the former college football lineman at North Carolina who is now homeless in Florida, is hard to find. I had spent weeks trying to connect with him for a column I wrote last week about his life after football. So when I received an outpouring of offers from people who wanted to help him, I knew it wouldn’t be simple for those people to follow through.
(New York Times)
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