Hop in. We’re going to take a ride over to ESPN.com real quick because there’s a great story in its college football department.
Alex Scarborough, a college football writer there, traveled to Lexington last fall to profile receiver-turned-quarterback Lynn Bowden while Bowden was running all over opposing defenses. However, as Scarborough notes on Twitter, he found himself absorbed in another story within UK’s football program: the bond between a coach and player, both battling cancer while giving their all to keep the Wildcats moving forward in college football.
It’s the story of how star linebacker Josh Paschal and former player/current offensive line coach John Schlarman each found out they had cancer, within days of each other, right before Kentucky began its fall football camp in 2018.