{"id":375,"date":"2005-05-14T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-14T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/new-york-times-nittany-lion-overcomes-a-life-altering-injury\/"},"modified":"2005-05-14T09:18:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-14T09:18:00","slug":"new-york-times-nittany-lion-overcomes-a-life-altering-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/pennstatehoops-com-has-ceased-operations\/new-york-times-nittany-lion-overcomes-a-life-altering-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times: Nittany Lion Overcomes a Life-Altering Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nittany Lion Overcomes a Life-Altering Injury – New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – When Adam Taliaferro walks across a stage to receive his undergraduate degree from Penn State on May 14, his slight limp should hardly be noticeable under his navy-blue graduation gown.<\/p>\n

“The limp is one of the few visible signs remaining from a catastrophic injury that left Taliaferro temporarily paralyzed from the neck down. The crown of Taliaferro’s helmet collided with an Ohio State running back’s knee in the waning seconds of a Buckeyes rout in Columbus in September 2000. The blow shattered the fifth cervical vertebra in Taliaferro’s neck ‘like a walnut inside a nutcracker,’ a doctor said later.<\/p>\n

“Doctors gave Taliaferro, a freshman cornerback at the time, a 3 percent chance of walking again. But four and a half years later, Taliaferro has returned to a mostly normal life, his remarkable recovery a testament to his will, his family’s strength and the support of Coach Joe Paterno and a Penn State community that embraced the Taliaferros in the immediate aftermath of the injury and in the following years.<\/p>\n

“‘Sometimes I feel selfish, because all the credit for my recovery comes to me,’ Taliaferro said. ‘But it was more than that that got me through this. I had a tremendous amount of support from a lot of people.’ …”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nittany Lion Overcomes a Life-Altering Injury – New York Times: “STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – When Adam Taliaferro walks across a stage to receive his undergraduate degree from Penn State on May 14, his slight limp should hardly be noticeable under his navy-blue graduation gown. “The limp is one of the few visible signs remaining from … <\/p>\n

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