Calm amid the sports storm
Talk about a busy week in our sports world.
The best game of the young college basketball season took place Tuesday in Norman when Davidson and Stephen Curry squared off against Oklahoma and Blake Griffin. The biggest game of the college football season is Saturday in Norman when OU and Texas Tech lock it up. The NBA team is playing three home games this week, culminating with the Hornets and ESPN coming to town Friday. And there also happen to be all sorts of college basketball and high school football playoff games.
And yet, there is one thing that has made me stop in my tracks all week — Caleb Spady.
Perhaps you remember a couple of columns that I wrote earlier this fall about the Hinton boy. The 10-year-old is battle inoperable brain cancer, and he had a Make-A-Wish trip to Arlington and a Texas Rangers game. He was also befriended by fellow Caddo County native and Angels outfielder Reggie Willits.
While working on that first column about Caleb, I logged onto his website at www.carepages.com. To see the page, though, I had to register. Ever since, I’ve received an e-mail notice every time Caleb’s mother, Kim, posts something on the website.
Last week, I clicked on one of the notices to see that the Spadys had received some terrible news from their specialist in Maryland — Caleb’s tumor is growing.
Ever since receiving that news, I have been quick to click every update that has come about Caleb. His mom wrote a few days later that she had explained to him that he could wait a few weeks to start his new round of chemotherapy. That way he could play in a few basketball games.
“He looked me straight in the face, his eyes so bright and his features and hands so animated, and said ‘You know, I just play these other sports — football and basketball — to fill the time between baseball seasons. I want to get started now so that maybe I’ll be through by baseball season,’” Caleb’s mom wrote. “And my heart broke into a thousand pieces — again.”
This 10-year-old boy and his family have become an inspiration to me, even though I’ve only chatted with Caleb and his mom on the telephone.
All of them have hearts of champions.
So, in this busy sports week, take a moment say a prayer for Caleb and his family. Even with all of these big games, none of them is more important than this.
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