An ESPN special airing tonight looks back at some of the best sports stories of the past ten years, and one of those stories is about former UNC mascot Jason Ray, killed in a tragic accident while traveling with the men’s basketball team in 2007.
[Jason Ray, UNC mascot and organ donor, left behind a legacy of life]
Ray had been with the team in New Jersey for an NCAA tournament game against Southern California. On the night of March 23, he walked from the team’s hotel to a gas station to buy a coke and burrito and was hit by a car.