Inspirational Stanford athlete Tyrone McGraw dies at 29

T YRONE McGRAW made me see the world differently. While working on a feature story on McGraw, a two-sport athlete in track and football at Stanford, I described him as a rare success story out of San Francisco's tough Bayview-Hunters Point. McGraw corrected me. "How can you say that a single mother who raises three kids and works two jobs is not successful?" he said. "She puts food on the table. She keeps her children safe." - Don't condemn those whom you don't understand, was his point. And don't condemn those who commit crimes without understanding the dysfunctional foundation that creates that environment.