Great news from the banks of the Raritan River.
Injured Rutgers University football player Eric LeGrand has sensation throughout his body giving hope to LeGrand's pledge to walk again.
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Over the past several years, the Rutgers football program has experienced its finest days with winning seasons and bowl victories becoming almost commonplace.
But all those good vibes came to a screeching halt on October 16th, when LeGrand made a tackle on a kickoff return in a game against Army at the New Meadowlands Stadium. The 20-year-old ducked his head when making contact on the play and was left paralyzed from the neck down.
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The play devastated the Rutgers campus, according to people I know at the New Brunswick, N.J., campus, and Rutgers alumni (Cook College '85) like me felt like it happened to a family member.
It was easy to understand why the team was dispirited for the rest of the season, losing all six games they played after LeGrand's injury. I would have had trouble even taking the field, after watching a teammate be carted off the field unable to walk hurt playing a child's game.
But now, we all have a reason for hope.
After being originally diagnosed as completely paralyzed, physicians later upgraded LeGrand's condition to "incomplete paralysis." He is also now off a ventilator and can breathe on his own.
It's going to take a lot of hard work, but we have seen other athletes who were believed to have been crippled on the sporting field make full recoveries.
Just look at Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin Everett and Penn State University's corner back Adam Taliaferro - both of whom are walking today after being seriously hurt on the field and thought to be paralyzed.
Walk, Eric LeGrand, walk.
Watch LeGrand's story here: