DMN: Wheelchair-bound former TCU football player: Ali was ‘the most amazing and Godly man I ever met’
By Kevin Sherrington, Staff Columnist Contact Kevin Sherringtonon Twitter:@KSherringtonDMN
Over the last 42 years in a wheelchair, Kent Waldrep has encountered a lot of luminaries while covering the map searching for a cure to spinal cord paralysis. Every president since Gerald Ford, for starters.
Even so, a six-city tour in the fall of 1997 probably merits its own category.
From Dallas to Houston, Austin, Kansas City, Detroit and Washington D.C., Waldrep spent the better part of a month with Muhammad Ali.
They’d met in 1994 when Ali came to town to serve as honorary co-chair of Fight Night, benefiting Waldrep’s National Paralysis Foundation. When Waldrep, injured in a 1974 college football game, asked Ali if he felt like a road trip, the champ didn’t think twice.
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