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Wins taking a back seat at Tennessee Tech

By Jeff Shelman
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Long road back Tennessee Tech associate head coach Steve Payne admits he thought things would be back to normal by now. He didn't think mid-July would arrive and Golden Eagles head coach Mike Sutton would still be hospitalized. Sutton, after all, is all about working hard and bringing energy. How could anything keep him down? Neither Payne nor many others knew much about Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a rare illness in the immune system that attacks the peripheral nervous system and causes paralys ...

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