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True All-American

By: Brett Blevins

If you are fed up with negative headlines and stories about athletes that make you cringe, take a moment and check out this must read.

Jason King, of Yahoo! Sports, gives us a story about Kentucky's Patrick Patterson that will leave even non-UK fans with goosebumps and a lump in your throat. Excerpt below...

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Heather had been admitted to the hospital the previous day because of abdominal pain, but that was hardly an issue during her nearly two-hour conversation with Patterson.

Heather asked him how he liked Calipari and questioned whether he was going to grow out his hair. Patterson teased her about boys and told her about what it’s like to be “stalked” on campus. Then they looked at pictures on Heather’s camera.

All the while, nurses and patients crowded around the door to take pictures through the glass window. Eventually Heather pulled a curtain around her bed.

“He’s here to see me,” she said, laughing.

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True Blue Patterson

POSTED: 10-16-2009

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