Fresh Voices

Roy Wenzl passed along the following: "We have a highly motivated young sports reporter here named Jeffrey Martin who I believe you will hear about in coming years. He's got a muscular style, and the daring to bend conventionality. The facts of this story make it compelling, but Jeff made it more so by structuring it not by chronology but by meaning/theme. I don't know why more writers don't attempt that. It's striking, effective...and also visually unusual, a factor that we simple-minded word people seldom consider. This story was, by lightyears, The Wichita Eagle's most clicked-on story on it's Kansas.com web site yesterday."

Here's Jeffrey's piece: This is a story about football, faith and love.

Separately, all three matter. Each is significant on its own.

But all three intertwined?

That's when something special can happen, when a 25-year-old husband and father reaches the NFL by believing in himself, ignoring the temptation to quit, propelled by the support of his understanding wife.

This is Ben Brown's story.