Over his four-year Maryland career, Juan Dixon went from a Baltimore legend to a national figure, his likeness splashed on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
Now the heartwarming story of his reunion with his biological father is taking a similar trajectory.
Nearly four months after The Baltimore Sun's Don Markus reported on Dixon's unlikely relationship with the man he didn't know existed, a retired Baltimore County correctional officer named Bruce Flanigan, a former boyfriend of Dixon's mother, HBO is featuring the Calvert Hall graduate's latest storybook tale in Tuesday night's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.