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BYU giant Mo Langi retires from football

SALT LAKE CITY — BYU's football team has lost the Big Mo.

That, by the way, has nothing to do with momentum. Rather, it's a reference to the massive man who's as big as a Polynesian island, Motekiai "Mo" Langi. The 6-foot-7, 400-plus-pound defensive lineman announced on Instagram that his football career is over because of a "recurring neck injury."

"My time of playing football has come to an abrupt end. Due to surgery and a recurring neck injury," he wrote on his Instagram account @molangi60. "Discontinuing football is at the best interest of my health, my family, and my future.