He had job offers on the table in Boston and nearby Raleigh. And he had begun dating Madison Withrow. He'd told his parents he thought she might be "the one." "One thing that shocked me more than anything in all the years I knew Jason was when he would talk about Madison," Oakes...
In invitational meets like these, colleges allow open or unattached athletes, usually people who train individually, to pay an entry fee and compete against scholarship athletes. Roman, then a high school sophomore at Southeast Raleigh also playing quarterback, had done just that. He also threw hi...