A Reluctant Hero: High School Football Player Rudy Favard Is Big Brother to Disabled Boy

His schedule is jam-packed with classes and homework and football practice. But for one Massachusetts high school senior, there is a special place each night for an 8-year-old little boy named Sam. Rudy Favard, a student at Malden Catholic High School, accepted his school nurse's request to meet with an area family three to four nights a week to carry their severely disabled son up the stairs to his bedroom; a task the family could no longer handle. "I wanted to help," Rudy, 17, said. "I...Full Story