I know several of my friends have asked about my health. I was recently diagnosed with lymphoma. My wife passed away on May 1 and shortly thereafter I lost both of our dogs to illness. It has been a really difficult 10 months for me. Losing my wife, the love of my life and my best friend for 42 and a half years was crushing to me. I would not want anyone to go through what my wife had to endure with 3 operations & treatments over 2 and a half years for cancer. She was so remarkable and faced things so bravely. She set an example that I will always remember. I have always loved sports and especially RU B-Ball and Linden B-Ball. I attend as many games as I can to stay busy and take my mind off of things. I have many family members, friends and former athletes from my track & cross country teams praying for me or sending thoughts my way. I wanted to give an update on my situation. The doctor told me yesterday that I have a low grade lymphoma. Many people do well with watchful waiting with this type. All with this will need chemotherapy eventually but that could be in 2 months or it could be in 4-8 years if I am really lucky. Once a person receives chemotherapy they can usually manage for quite a while too so I consider myself lucky. There are people that have things so much tougher than I do. I think I will be around for many years yet to attend RU and LHS games. I feel bad for my son as it is difficult to hear that your Mom passed away from cancer and 10 months later hear that your Dad now has cancer. He is however 28 and I think is handling things very well. I'm sorry if my rooting for a Linden player bugs some of you but I have followed LHS B-Ball since 1958 and I think I know a good player when I see one. I want to see RU at some time during my lifetime make the NCAA once again. I also hope that I can live long enough to see a practice facility built as well as seeing a little nicer and slightly expanded RAC. Any thoughts and prayers are always appreciated as I know those can only help.