LaRon Cephas was a basketball player at Maryland when I was there. This morning, there was a story in the Washington Post about how he collapsed yesterday in his Annapolis home and died at the age of 29.
While he didn't play a lot at Maryland, he definitely had a huge impact on the 2001 National Championship team as a role player and overall good person. After college, LaRon worked for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County, helping to shape the youth of tomorrow.
After we graduated, I never forgot LaRon Cephas...not because of his playing days, or not because of what he did for the Boys & Girls Club - I never knew about that until today - but because everytime I told my wife that something was facetious - humorous or amusing or not meant to be taken seriously or literally - I instead said it was "LaRon Cephas."
Today, there is nothing funny about a 29-year-old person dying. And since I'm 29 and knew of LaRon, I'm extremely upset after hearing this sad news today.
Equally upsetting was the shooting at VA Tech yesterday. What a horrible, atrocious and vile act by a madman. What in the world would possess someone to do something like that is beyond me. My thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of those killed and injured.
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