Keith Appling made his first and only shot to put Michigan State up by nine points with 13:17 to go, but the team's leading scorer left for good five minutes later when his rightshoulder took the brunt of Johnson's drive into the lane.
He remembered one cut day with the Cowboys when the personnel guys walked around practice as the players were stretching and tapped guys on theshoulderforthe ride to the airport, right in front of the (terrified) other players on the team.
On the personal level, I was hoping to find some relief for my ailing rightshoulder, which I bashed badly decades ago as a seaman, second class, in the U.S. Navy.
She shook hands with Rivera, posed for a picture with his valuable right arm around her shoulder and accepted a baseball with the signature of the future Hall of Famer.