Sports Illustrated features quadriplegic on cover

The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis is one of the biggest players in the spinal cord injury research arena (not counting the Reeve Foundation, of course). The catalyst for the Miami Project was the injury in a college football game of Marc Bouniconti who has lived with quadriplegia since 1985. His dad, Nick Bouniconti, is an NFL hall of famer and former Miami Dolphin.

This week Sports Illustrated has Marc in his wheelchair on the cover! The story of his injury intertwined his life with the lives of two other men is remarkable.

Read Three Lives, Two Hits, One Happy Ending.