Eight Seconds on the Clock of Eternity
On March 4, 1993, Jim Valvano could barely walk to the podium at Madison Square Garden. The former NC State basketball coach, diagnosed with metastatic...
This is a contemporary on hope and perseverance, drawing on James 1:2-4.
On March 4, 1993, Jim Valvano could barely walk to the podium at Madison Square Garden. The former NC State basketball coach, diagnosed with metastatic bone cancer less than a year earlier, needed his friend Dick Vitale to help him to the stage. He was there to receive the inaugural Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPY Awards, and everyone in the room knew he was dying.…
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