‘Glad To Be Alive’: Walt Wells Is Still Here, Loving Life And Football
A little over a month ago, on August 28th, it seemed like a normal morning at the headquarters of Eastern Kentucky football. The season opener was five days away. A team staffer was restocking the coach’s refrigerator. And inside his office, that coach — Walt Wells — was dropping to the floor, having a heart attack. Today, Richard Johnson from Sports Illustrated tells the story of how Wells almost died that morning in August, the staffers who rushed to the scene to keep him alive, and the fight the coach faced even after he was in the hospital.
Read Richard Johnson’s full story about Walt Wells: https://www.si.com/college/2022/09/21/eastern-kentucky-coach-walt-wells-football-survives-daily-cover
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