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November 29, 2007

A subdued Ray Lewis

Hey all --

Baltimore linebacker Ray Lewis just held his conference call with the New England media, but it was not the energetic, talkative Ray Lewis most of us expected to talk with. Lewis is mourning the death of Sean Taylor, whom he called one of his best friends, and didn't want to blow off his commitment to the conference call but didn't want to talk about football either.

Lewis said Taylor's death is bringing make old wounds, those that came when his roommate at Miami, Marlin Barnes, was killed in their apartment before Lewis' junior year with the Hurricanes. And it has made him realize, again, that football is a game and life is precious, and that you only get but one.

Posted by Shalise Manza Young  at 2:19 PM | Permalink