Avonte Maddox smiled as he sat down to a cafeteria lunch of chicken, cookies and a carton of kiwi-strawberry juice on Tuesday. The 2014 athlete never had a chance to finish it.
His baseball coach strolled up to his lunch table to tell him Penn State assistant Ron Vanderlinden was sitting inside his office there at Detroit (Mich.) Martin Luther King. Maddox shot the coach a confused look, slowly rising because he wasn't sure whether it was a joke.
It wasn't.
His baseball coach strolled up to his lunch table to tell him Penn State assistant Ron Vanderlinden was sitting inside his office there at Detroit (Mich.) Martin Luther King. Maddox shot the coach a confused look, slowly rising because he wasn't sure whether it was a joke.
It wasn't.
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