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...also have to believe in God." To free himself for football trips, Al Testaverde has given up his 17-year foreman's job to go back to the cruel toil of grading and finishing cement. "It's worth it," he says. "I want Vinny to * win the Heisman more than he wants to win it; I admit that. If he wins it today, and I drop dead tomorrow, I'm happy...
...heart, the Heisman Trophy winner, the No. 1 pick of the N.F.L., was never a football player at all. "Really, I got into football from peer pressure. My mom never wanted me to play," says Jackson, who declined millions in Tampa Bay to accept hundreds of thousands in Kansas City. " 'I'm not having you all broke up and limping and sore,' she'd say. When I'd come home that way, she'd lock me out. I'd stay the night with friends...
Olympic volleyball star Flo Hyman's death last year from Marfan's syndrome was kinder. No recriminations followed. In strictly athletic terms, the loss of Bias to the N.B.A. recalls the poignant professional football career of Syracuse Running Back Ernie Davis, the first black Heisman Trophy winner, who during the early '60s learned the Cleveland playbook while fighting leukemia and died at 23 before the first down...
Jernigan has also won three intercollegiate individual championships. Perhaps most impressive, he's won the Ivy League Player of the Year award--the squash equivalent of football's Heisman Trophy--no less than four times...
...Fusco. That's Scott Fusco. That's Harvard's all-time leading scorer (100 goals, 119 assists). He's a leading candidate to win the Hobey Baker Award, college hockey's Heisman Trophy. His brother Mark won it three years...