Champions

This article from 2005 (Sports Illustrated, Rick Reilly) has been making the rounds on Facebook.

Rigged up with a computer that allowed him to control the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his head, Rick was finally able to communicate. First words? "Go Bruins!" And after a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the school organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, "Dad, I want to do that." 

Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described "porker" who never ran more than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he tried. "Then it was me who was handicapped," Dick says. "I was sore for two weeks." 

That day changed Rick's life. "Dad," he typed, "when we were running, it felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!"

Boston Marathon, 2002.