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WIR: New challenges for Nader

By Henry Gola
Scouts Inc.

Friday, September 22, 2006

Last Friday, during a game against A&M Consolidated, offensive tackle Matt Nader of Westlake High School in Austin, Texas, sat on the bench recuperating after a long drive. Then, everything changed. "I can remember feeling hot in my chest, and then I started feeling light-headed, and I can even remember whiting out then waking up in the hospital," recalls Nader. Nader, 6-foot-6 and nearly 300 pounds, collapsed on the sideline from what was later diagnosed as a lethal arrhythmia. His moth ...

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