Wayne Rooney, A-Rod Demonstrate Power of Sports: Scott Soshnick
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The next time someone tries to say that sports is frivolous, that grown-ups playing games is a waste of time and brainpower, tell them about my son’s four-day stint in the hospital.
Tell them about my time in the family lounge at New York’s Weill Cornell Medical Center where, thanks to the likes of Wayne Rooney, Alex Rodriguez and Kobe Bryant, complete strangers started talking and eventually became friends.