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Crum follows dream, changes minds, inspires the country

By Kyle Whelliston
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Five summers ago, the head coach at Arizona Western junior college received a tape from a New Mexico high school. "The tape was from the state championship in Albuquerque," Kelly Green recalled. "I don't know if you've been to 'The Pit,' but it's a big place. The film was taken from the very top of the arena, so the players looked like ants." One of those ants was Dax Crum, a three-year starter at Kirtland Central High who averaged 15 points and 4.6 rebounds in his senior year. Even as Green s ...

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