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Gomes taking steps to save players from cardiac arrest

Originally Published: September 8, 2008
By Anna Katherine Clemmons | ESPN The Magazine

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As a high school sophomore back in December 2000, Greg Moyer walked off the basketball court at halftime of a varsity game in East Stroudsburg, Pa., spotted his family in the bleachers and flashed that look. The same one he'd given his mother, Rachel Moyer, after she'd threatened one evening to make him eat the dirty socks ...

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