This setback filled him with pain, but it could have been overcome. I just wish my friend wouldn't have resorted to drugs and alcohol to try to heal that pain. Drugs and alcohol won't solve your problems, they only create more. They don't solve anything. Look, I'm not here to preach to you, but this stuff ruined my friend's life, and I want to do justice to his memory.
Drugs destroy the athlete's life.
Just ask my favorite football player, Steeler tight end Eric Green, about his recent suspension. Drugs ended Gino's chances to latch on with another basketball program and sent him to rehab instead. The last time I heard about him before his death, he was working in a McDonald's and trying to get his life back in order. That's why the news of the fire hit so hard. Gino died in a fire at a Slippery Rock cabin this January.