During his tenure running point at UT, Toney Harris was described with many adjectives. Talented. Troubled. Turbulent. And even more colorful ones when he decided to come off the bench to join in a in a fight during a game against Kentucky that he was sitting out because of an "injury."
Frankly, that was my last impression of the guy. A posterchild for the Generation Me athlete. More concerned with tats and stats than being part of a team and playing the game the right way.
And while my impression might have been accurate then, after reading today's feature story in the News-Sentinel, and then hearing Tony interviewed later on Basilo's talk show, I've got a whole new attitude towards the guy. In both platforms, he owned up for his mistakes and pointed to ways he's tried to get his life turned around. One of those is through a company he helped start, Vision Athletics, that ministers to children through sports. He talked a lot about his faith and his family. It was refreshing to hear. And a good reminder why I'm thankful God doesn't give up on us as quickly as we sometimes give up on each other.
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