Pack Players Start Nonprofit To Fight Rare Diseases

CharlotteObserver.com: Sports, Charlotte Observer: Sports
Tue, 08/09/2011 - 11:31pm

(BY J.P. GIGLIO, Staff Writer) Wayne Crawford graduated from N.C. State in May and could have coasted through his final college football season.The Wolfpack's backup center wanted to do more, though, not less. So Crawford, along with quarterback Mike Glennon and receiver T.J. Graham, started a chapter of Uplifting Athletes, a nonprofit agency that works with college football players to raise money to fight rare diseases.

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