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LaPorte heavyweight Blackburn making every moment last


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anuary 14, 2014 6:00 pm  •  Jim Peters james.peters@nwi.com, (219) 548-4363

There's an urgency for LaPorte wrestler Landon Blackburn this season, and being a senior is only a part of the reason.

 

Personal experience has taught him to take nothing for granted.

 

His dad Jay, whose childhood athletic pursuits were limited by polio, is his biggest inspiration. Then there's his uncle Dave. A hall-of-fame fast-pitch softball hurler, he won several gold medals in the Maccabiah Games before losing a leg and nearly dying in a horrific car accident in 2010. He returned to Israel last summer as a paralympian

 

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