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How one MSU football great aided Jon Reschke's path to atonement

Former Michigan State linebacker Jon Reschke discusses his second chance at playing at MSU and auditioning at pro day for NFL scouts. Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press

The weight room became Jon Reschke’s solace, his fortress, his refuge.

To rehabilitate the injuries, both to his body and his psyche. To forget the self-inflicted damage to his reputation.

To think. A lot.

About his words. THAT word in particular, the unthinkable one. The one no white person should use. The one none of his black friends had heard him use before.

About those days afterward.