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Within a heartbeat of tragedy

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Monday, September 9, 2002

FREEPORT, N.Y. -- Doug Goodwin Jr. is 6-foot and nearly 300 pounds, and 20 years old, but he's not too old to wrestle with his father. They're messing around in the gathering dusk at Holy Trinity High School, where Doug Jr. graduated three years ago and Doug Sr. still helps coach the football team. "He's going to be a player," Doug Sr. says, wincing as his son leans into his chest. "Going to be a player." The father was once a Buffalo Bills fullback, but this is the kind of strenuous horsepla ...

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