Dedication to the Extreme

by Tracy Timson sports editor

A love for a sport has many rewards.

Wmning the championship game or the cbeerleading trophy leaves an individual with a sense of accomplishment, a sense that they have achieved a dream. Sometimes this accomlishment is achieved at all too great of a risk.

It is understood that with playing sports comes certain injuries.

A pulled muscle or a bad shoulder are things that are seen everyday in the world of athletics, but death is something we do not hear often during a sports report on the nightly news.

This year, however, the world of sports has experienced a huge loss. His death was blamedon heat exhaustion but it could also be a love gone too far. Kory Stringer of the Minnesota Vikings was pronounced dead at 1:50 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 1, at St. Joseph's-Mayo Health .System in Mankota, Minn.

Imagine a football player or any other athlete stepping out onto the playing field for yet another season. Not just another season but for prac- tice and for the third time that day, giving his all to the game that he had so much love and respect for.

What seems like a game to some of these player's is much more to others. Sports are somtimes these people's lives. It is what they live and breath