ESPN begins a week of promoting the Jimmy V Foundation for Cancer Research Wednesday night. One of my favorite parts comes at 55 seconds on this clip, where coach V reacts to the teleprompter. That screen is flashing up there thirty seconds like I care about that screen right now, huh? I got tumors all over my body. I'm worried about some guy in the back going thirty seconds? You got a lot,...
When college basketball is starting up every year, my mind always starts reflecting on this speech by Jimmy Valvano. He won the ESPY award for courage in '93. He passed away from cancer 2 months after the award. The V Foundation was created right before his death. The speech is awesome. Enjoy:
... Management and EastWest Bank. The golf tournament is a fundraiser with proceeds benefiting Jimmy V Foundation for Cancer Research (www.jimmyv.org).
... in between the Alleluia and the Gospel at Mass. The 1570 Tridentine Missal of Saint Pius V (the foundation of the Tridentine Latin Mass) suppressed all of these for various reasons, except for four which the council fathers believed were the most beautiful and worthy of retaining: the Dies Irae, the Veni Sancte Spiritus, the Victimae Paschali Laudes, and the Lauda Sion. Laetabundus got the...