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Article: Stranger helping Sutton's recovery.(SPORTS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- April 12, 2009
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Byline: Paul Jarvey
COLUMN: PAUL JARVEY
Lorenzo Sutton and the Sign Man - it's an unlikely pair, the one-time sweet-shooting guard whose life has taken such terrible downward turns and the guy doing everything he can to rescue someone he has never met.
Sutton was about the best thing there was about UMass basketball in the 1980s. He was a three-year captain and a three-time all-A-10 second-teamer who once hit eight 3-pointers in a game and shot threes at a 45 percent clip as a junior. He left in 1988 - the year before John Calipari showed up to turn everything around - as the leading scorer in school history.
Life held so much promise ...