DON’T GIVE UP, DON’T EVER GIVE UP

On a somewhat heavier note...

Mike and Mike of ESPN Radio were auctioning off cool stuff to benefit the V Foundation this morning – a trip to the Breeders Cup, a Monday Night Football game, a Notre Dame basketball/football weekend and a chance to have them do their morning radio show from your house.

The V Foundation has always been a T.A.H. favorite and now that the T.A.H. family has been touched by cancer more than once recently, we continue to advocate supporting the cancer research foundation that N.C. State coach Jim Valvano launched with the help of ESPN in 1993.

At the time, AIDS research was receiving ten times more money than cancer research and Valvano wanted to bring the Big C back onto the front burner. He used his platform at the 1993 ESPY Awards show to deliver his now famous speech. Of course, it being Valvano who would die just two months later, the speech is both moving and funny (of course, not at the same time).

Toward the end of the show, Mike and Mike played the speech. If you have never heard it, give it a listen. If you have, listen to it again. No matter where you are today, Jimmy V will remarkably put you in a better place…

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