THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Kent Waldrep poses for a portrait with a boxing glove signed by Muhammad Ali at his home in McKinney on Thursday, July 7, 2016. Waldrep and Ali were part of a speaking tour together in the 1990's. Waldrep is a former TCU football player who was paralyzed during a college football game in 1974. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News)
Over the last 42 years in a wheelchair, Kent Waldrep has encountered a lot of luminaries while covering the map searching for a cure to spinal cord paralysis. Every president since Gerald Ford, for starters.