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gervasemyman wrote:

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Horsefeather, you were cool and now you're not. Sad.

tagrippa wrote:

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Actually Coach claimed to have had cancer in an interview with the school newspaper at SBU. This article was in an issue dated the week before his firing which I believe most likely was the real reason he was fired. The University didn't wait two months to fire him for not showing up while he was taping, they fired him for obviously lying about having had cancer in the first place. He goes into great detail about having had cancer, which he has contradicted in other stories by saying "They thought it might be cancer". In this story he goes into details about the size of the tumor and everything.

Two and a half years ago, Wade, who is the University's women's head soccer coach, fell suddenly off the bench while doing a warm-up set in the Meyer Wellness and Sports Center weight room. At that moment he broke down and wept. Wade was diagnosed with a II mm tumor on his posterior fossa, near the brain stem and cerebellum.
"It was just a crystal clear thought in the weight-room that day when I said to myself 'you are not invincible,' and life is probably never going to be the same," said Wade. "Going through that and being here the whole way and stumbling around, losing my balance and walking with a cane was very traumatic. It was the first time in my whole life when I really got discouraged and couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel. I prayed harder than I did in all my life."

I thought it was a 2 mm tumor. Huh. That's about 3 inches in diameter. That's not a bad place for a tumor, very operable, but he should have had MASSIVE headaches prior to falling off a weight lifting bench. Interesting that falling off the bench was his first clue.