NORMAN — I wrote about former Oklahoma All-American defensive back Rickey Dixon’s battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) for Friday’s newspaper. You can read that article here.
Dixon was a Jim Thorpe Award winning defensive back as a senior in 1987 and played six NFL seasons.
Rickey now weighs about 130 pounds as the disease has progressively deteriorated his muscles over the past few years. He also has trouble talking because of the ALS, so I asked him questions and he answered them through email.
Here are a few more things I learned in my reporting for the article.