heartwarming story...

DeJuan Smith-Whittaker is a senior linebacker,at Livonia-Clarenceville(Michigan) high school,which is somewhat of a miracle... six years ago,doctors told him that he had lymphoma,and would not give him clearance to play on his high school football team,even though he competed in basketball,and ran for a season on the track team... he desperately wanted to play high school football,and so,in July,doctors at Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital gave him the much-coveted thumbs-up to play high school football... in September, Smith-Whittaker led the Trojans with twelve tackles,in his first high school game... going into tonight's game,the Trojans were 3-4,this year...