The Sacramento Bee has a well-written and researched article on the fate of Kermit Washington.  For those of you who are too young to remember or who have forgotten because of dead brain cells, Washington was the L.A. Laker who crushed Rudy Tomjanovich's face in 1977 with a blow that has been called "the hardest punch in the history of mankind."

After that momentous right hand, Washington "saw his career start circling the bowl like a deceased goldfish."
(Ya gotta just love that line.)

Washington has suffered as much as anyone from the incident and yet he has put an incredible amount back into his community over the years.  And don't think he's gone soft either. He still works out every day and, at age 50, says there is nobody stronger in the NBA today. He can still bench-press 400 pounds and even won a beer keg-toss at a Scottish Games a couple of years ago.  Anyone need a power forward?