While it seems like the sports news is dominated by so many negatives as of late, it is refreshing to come across a couple of guys who are trying to do something positive through their chosen sport, running.

On Sunday, June 1, Journal sports writer Padraic Duffy wrote about Nolan Taylor, who was taking part in the 2007 Deadwood Mickelson Trail Marathon. It was the T-shirt Taylor wore as he crossed the finish line — a T-shirt with CHEMO IS HARDER  in block lettering — that caught Duffy’s attention and became a natural for a storyline on marathon day.

Nearly all of us know someone whose life was taken or altered drastically by cancer, or dealt with it one-on-one. For many of us at the Journal, that person is Peggy Sagen, who died in August of 2006 after fighting ovarian cancer for three years.

Nolan and Brendan Murphy, the guys behind the Chemo Is Harder cause, have both watched their parents deal with cancer. Nolan’s dad has tonsil cancer, and Brendan’s mom is an ovarian cancer survivor while his dad lost his battle with melanoma in 2003.

So take the time to visit the Chemo Is Harder Web site and support Nolan Taylor and Brendan Murphy during their Chemo Is Harder Cancer Research Run scheduled for May of 2008.

 

– Jeff Easton