Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible.

I am Bruce Feldman.

I am pleased to be joined.

We have a really special guest today whose story I think is as good a story as we have going in sports and certainly in college sports,

and that is Pitt Star James Connor. We're going to get into his battle of the last year,

first with injury and then with something much more serious. James, thanks for joining us on

the Audible today. Thank you, Bruce, for having me. James, thanks for joining us on the Audible today.

Thank you, Bruce, for having me.

James, I'm sure a lot of people have gotten familiar with your story. I think it was back

in early December, right, when you learned of the diagnosis of Hodgkin's lymphoma?

Yes.

So what is, when you hear this, how much familiarity do you have with it?

I mean, what's going through your mind when you get this diagnosis?

Oh, man, this is a scary time.

But, yeah, I wasn't familiar with it at all.

You know, I was on the phone, and then the doctors, you know, said, I think it could be lymphoma.

And I actually didn't know what lymphoma was. You know, I knew it didn't sound good. But then I asked him, if it was a formal cancer, and he said, yeah. and so yeah it's just you know a tough time you know because obviously first my knee you know so things

weren't going good for a while um yeah's just, you know, a tough time, you know, because obviously first my knee, you know, so things weren't going good for a while. Yeah, so, but, you know, I was blessed and fortunate to get through it. And, but, yeah, it's just a real, real dark time when they first tell you. So he's, this is the doctor. Now, you had already had knee injury that basically cost you. I mean, you were the ACC player of the year the knee injury

cost you all of basically all of last

season and then a couple

of months later I mean what was the

process of how they even found

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