The Boy Who Wouldn't Die... Amazing piece in SI about Rae Carruth's son

Unless a desker's the one who created the error by adding the word 'and' to the beginning of the quoted sentence in the interest of 'accuracy.'

That happens, too.

 

I wonder, does the kid have a lightning bolt shaped scar on his forehead?

 

The kid looks exactly like his dad.

I was at the same football camps as Rae in high school. He was a strange one, even back then. I never thought he'd kill someone, but I remember he was quite the loner and he was probably the highest-recruited kid there.

 

There was a story shortly after the murder where they talked to a GM about why Carruth fell so far in the draft. He was rated the top receiver by most of the experts, and some projected him in the top 10-15 and he fell to the end of the first. I think the story was about whether teams had an inkling that Carruth was f-d in the head before the draft.

One of the GMs was looking at his notes and said he wrote down, "Good speed, not a killer..."

 

This story was covered three years ago.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2009/11/15/193003/rae-carruths-son-triumphs-over.html

 

Listening to the likes of Jones, Junod, Lake and Laskas at the Mayborn this year was one of the best things a journalist could experience. Lake said he'll wait till everybody's done reporting a story so he can report things they way he wants to. Then he gave one of the best quotes of the weekend. "I'm not trying to be timely. I'm trying to write something people will remember."

 

I love Lake's stuff. He's great.

That being said, as far as that quote ...

Good work if you can get it!

 

So Lake can't put his own spin on something?

 

And absolutely nothing has happened in the boy's life in the last three years.

 

Waaaay too much "I" in that.

 

OK, that was not the story itself.