“State College, Pa. – January 15, 2005 – Penn State Nittany Lion basketball player Marlon Smith (Bronx, N.Y.) met with the media after Penn State’s game with Michigan this afternoon to announce that he will not play for the remainder of the season.
“Smith, who got ill at practice on Friday, Jan. 7, underwent extensive testing to determine the cause for some weakness in his extremities. Penn State Director of Athletic Medicine Dr. Wayne Sebastianelli, announced that Smith had a small, transient, partial blockage of an artery in his brain related to a small blood clot. …”