Every morning he wakes up, Syracuse Orange point guard Frank Howard looks in the mirror with a sense of purpose and instructs himself on what he needs to do for the day, for both himself and his family.
Each day, he looks down at the permanent blank ink inscribed across his left forearm and is reminded. He reads the date, July 4, 2002. That was the date his brother Jonathan Howard was shot multiple times in the back, and subsequently killed in Suitland, Md. at age 22. Howard was just five years old.