BleedGopher
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per Joe, a well-done profile:
The holidays were approaching, and 16-year-old Cameron Botticelli wanted a Christmas tree. He didn’t think that was asking his father for much — just a tree and some stockings, a few decorations to give the bitter home some normalcy.
Botticelli’s parents had divorced when he was 6. He and his baby sister lived with their mother at first, but she was a nurse who fell into addiction. So the kids moved in with their dad on Milwaukee’s blue-collar south side and hoped for the best.
By Botticelli’s sophomore year — three years before he followed his football passion to the University of Minnesota — the friction with his mostly absent father overheated. Botticelli wasn’t on speaking terms with his mother and detested his father’s girlfriend.
http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/284044041.html?page=all&prepage=1&c=y#continue
Go Gophers!!
The holidays were approaching, and 16-year-old Cameron Botticelli wanted a Christmas tree. He didn’t think that was asking his father for much — just a tree and some stockings, a few decorations to give the bitter home some normalcy.
Botticelli’s parents had divorced when he was 6. He and his baby sister lived with their mother at first, but she was a nurse who fell into addiction. So the kids moved in with their dad on Milwaukee’s blue-collar south side and hoped for the best.
By Botticelli’s sophomore year — three years before he followed his football passion to the University of Minnesota — the friction with his mostly absent father overheated. Botticelli wasn’t on speaking terms with his mother and detested his father’s girlfriend.
http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/284044041.html?page=all&prepage=1&c=y#continue
Go Gophers!!
