Terps' beat writer Don Markus on Maryland's football coach DJ Durkin being placed on administrative leave, along with several members of his staff. (Kevin Richardson / Baltimore Sun video)
In the University of Maryland Medical Center hospital wing where he had lain five years earlier, battling for his life, Gavin Class leaned over the bed of Jordan McNair, grasped his hand and whispered to him.
“Be strong, Jordan,” Class recalled saying in his early-June visit. “Fight every day. Be positive.”
McNair, 19, an offensive lineman for the the University of Maryland football team, had by then been hospitalized at Baltimore’s Maryland Shock Trauma Center for a week.