Daniel Miller's Shameless Self-Promotion

A Big Game

This past Saturday, Toledo hosted the Pitt Panthers in the biggest non-conference game in the school's history. Pittsburgh came in ranked #9 in the country and AP assigned the game to me.
After Toledo did the improbable and won, (and moved to #26 in the rankings) I went home to find that they actually used my photos on some Web sites!

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Pittsburgh Tight End Kris Wilson (83) leaps for a pass in the end zone late in the first quarter in the Glass Bowl Saturday, Sept. 20, 2003, in Toledo, Ohio. Wilson's catch put Pittsburgh ahead of the Toledo Rockets 6-0.

Toledo defender Keon Jackson (6) dives for an interception against Pittsburgh during the first quarter in the Glass Bowl Saturday, Sept. 20, 2003, in Toledo, Ohio.

Sad but true

Walking into assignments with wild preconceptions, while sometimes unavoidable, is never a good thing. You usually end up discovering just how ordinary extraordinay things can be.

The latest court case involves a funeral director who, through gross abuse of his duties, left bodies laying about for an extended period of time. My first thought was, "What a sick and twisted bastard!" But as I heard the evidence I came to realize the man wasn't a psycho, he was just a horrible businessman with a big heart who criminally abused his responsibilities. He couldn't afford to take care of the bodies because he gave away services to people who couldn't afford them.
Sometimes truth *isn't* stranger than fiction, it's just more sad.

Photo by DANIEL MILLER
A tear runs down the cheek of Funeral home owner Henry Harden during his hearing in the Lucas County courthouse in Toledo, Ohio, Friday, Sept. 12, 2003. Harden plead no contest to 8 counts of abuse of a corpse and one count of theft.