Overwhelming odds: History says Clarett faces many obstacles in attempt to revive his football career
Sunday, August 29, 2010 03:10 AM
By Rob Oller
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Associated Press
Clarett starred as a freshman tailback for Ohio State in 2002.
Associated Press
Clarett failed to make it after being drafted by the Denver Broncos in 2005.
Associated Press
Clarett pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery and carrying a concealed weapon in 2006.
Tom Dodge | Dispatch
Clarett was granted permission last week to try out for a professional football team in Omaha, Neb.
Charles E. Smith desperately wants to talk to Maurice Clarett. Wants to warn him about the whispers. About the angles. Wants to encourage him to stop listening to the good as well as the bad.
Smith wants Clarett to know, to understand, that everything will be different now. Everything. The former Boston Celtics guard, who spent 21/2 years in prison after being convicted of vehicular homicide in the hit-and-run deaths of two Boston University students in 1991, wants Clarett to realize the what-ifs are unavoidable. The memories are inerasable. That said, life cannot be lived in the past. Keep moving forward.
These are the things Smith wants to tell Clarett, who on Monday was released from the Columbus dormitory-style transitional facility where he had spent the past 41/2 months. Before that, Clarett served 31/2 years of a seven-year sentence in a Toledo prison after pleading guilty in 2006 to aggravated robbery and carrying a concealed weapon.
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