I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

I read my books aloud before they were published.

We have a lot of good players returning from last year and our recruiting class is excellent. I will have to take my game to another level this season.

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

I'll have to read a few more of those articles to see exactly what was said, but I still feel the same way I did back then, it was a slap in the face to the NFL,