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The Buffalo News has posted an update on veteran sportswriter and National Lacrosse League Hall of Famer Tom Borrelli. Citing reports from family members, the newspaper reports that Tom is breathing with a respirator and unable to move his arms or legs. Doctors and family members are holding out hope that his condition will improve once his extensive swelling lets up.

The unthinkable occurred on the stairs leading up to the press box at All High Stadium behind Bennett High School this past weekend. Tom was covering a high school football game and reportedly hit his head and fell down a set of iron stairs on his way up to get first-half statistics. In order to get to the All High press box, reporters have to climb what is described as a ship’s ladder with two handrails, go through a trap door and then across a catwalk on the stadium roof. Some reporters have flat-out refused to use the press box because of it, while others have called it an accident waiting to happen.

All the best goes out to Mr. Tom Borrelli, who in 1992 took a chance on a little team called the Buffalo Bandits and has been unwavering in his support and coverage of the Bandits and National Lacrosse League ever since. In 2005 the league created the Tom Borrelli Award in his honour, and in 2007 Tom become the first writer to be inducted into the National Lacrosse League Hall of Fame.

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