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Former Mizzou Tiger and current Denver Broncos player Damien Nash has died at the age of 24 in St. Louis . Damien Nash had just come home from a charity basketball game he'd organized in his brother's honor when he collapsed in front of his wife and 7-month-old girl. The Denver Broncos running back died Saturday and the cause remained unclear Sunday, but his grieving mother knows what she must do. After one son's death and a heart ailment that caused another son to require a transplant last year, Kim Nash is taking her daughter to a cardiologist next week. "My son," she told The Associated Press amid sobs, "is giving me the strength right now to talk." Damien Nash collapsed in his suburban St. Louis home after returning by limousine with his wife, Judy Nash, and their daughter from a game at his high school to benefit The Darris Nash Find a Heart Foundation. The organization raises money for heart transplant research. The 24-year-old player was taken by ...

If you can tear yourself away from Super Bowl hype (anybody else expecting a yawner?), there is a nice stary in the PD about Roger Wehrli , and some encouraging words about the Mizzou Tigers recruiting class for next year. From the story on Wehrli: Wehrli was considered flawless in his technique. He never wasted steps or motion, and could read a receiver's routes with uncanny prescience. Some of the top quarterbacks of the era — including Hall of Famers Roger Staubach, Fran Tarkenton and Sonny Jurgensen — have said they avoided throwing to Wehrli's side. He was too smart to be fooled, too swift to be outrun. "After a while," Staubach said, "you just stopped challenging him. There was no point to it. He was the best cornerback I played against. The term 'Shutdown Corner' originated with Roger Wehrli." I have to say, I grew up hating Roger Staubach (he ripped my young heart out too many Sundays for me to like the man), but he has shown nothing but cl...