The disease, which Smith has a 50-50 chance of inheriting, is the cause behind the couple’s HelpCureHD foundation, which collects donations and hosts events to raise awareness and help find a cure. More than a homecoming, the trade brought the couple within a few hours of Smith’s mother, Lee, who has Huntington’s disease. “I just screamed at the top of my lungs and started running around like crazy,” says LaForce. LaForce was in a Whole Foods in New York when she got the call. Then earlier this summer, Smith rejoined the Tribe after being traded from the Toronto Blue Jays.
But by the time they married in 2015, she was at CBS and he was pitching for the Los Angeles Angels. She met Cleveland Indians sidearm relief pitcher Joe Smith back in 2011 when she was working at Fox 8. Most weeks, the former Vermilion High School basketball star makes a stop in Cleveland. “Everything I’ve ever done, there’s been someone ahead of me who inspired me to do it.” “It’s important for young women to not just be told they can do it but to see other women come before them and break the stereotype,” she says. 1 college football game of the week and serves the same role during the network’s coverage of NCAA basketball. Now, the Ohio University alum, who wrote her undergrad thesis on the objectification of women in sports, has a chance to serve as a similar role model. “She’s this strong, independent woman who’s poised, elegant and beautiful but was also a fierce competitive athlete.” The all-star cast of 12 contributors includes LaForce’s lifelong role model and basketball hall of famer Lisa Leslie. When LaForce arrives in New York, she’ll switch gears to host CBS’ We Need To Talk, network TV’s first all-female sports talk show. But if there is a con in covering sports, it’s the travel. “I really do think I have the greatest job in the world. “It comes with the territory,” says the former host of Fox 8’s high school football wrap-up show Friday Night Touchdown. She’s hoping to catch a flight out of Orlando, two hours away.
The day before, the sideline reporter for SEC on CBS Sports covered the Georgia Bulldogs-Florida Gators football game, but her flight to New York City from Jacksonville has been canceled. The former Fox 8 reporter covers the sidelines of college football and basketball across the country, but still makes time for home.Īllie LaForce is in a rental car somewhere in Florida.
Rostad then put the capper on West's 34th win in the series. That broke the Shrine Game record of 85 yards by Fairfield's Lynn Schenk in 1969. In the fourth quarter Laurel's Beau Dantic snared a deflected Kaden Huot pass and returned it 101 yards for the East's third touchdown. State champions Sentinel (AA), Hamilton (A) and Florence (B) fortified the West roster with 14 players. Statistics were not available, though reported that Dowler had 203 receiving yards. That made it 23-14.Īfter Rohrbach hit a 34-yard field goal in the third quarter, an interception by Florence's Luke Maki set up another Rostad TD run for a 33-14 lead.įlorence's contingent of players - running back Tristan Pyette and receivers Blake Shoupe and Caden Zaluski - made hay in the second half. The East then tried an unsuccessful onside kick, and capitalized with a 12-yard scoring strike from Rostad to Missoula Hellgate's Ian Finch just before halftime. Sullivan scooped and scored from 63 yards out to make it 16-7.Įast got two touchdown passes from Claunch, including an 80-yarder to Billings West teammate Taco Dowler to cut West's lead to 16-14 with 2:38 left in the first half. In the second quarter East drove down for a field goal attempt, which was blocked by Sentinel's Tanner Klumph and Helena Capital's Forrest Suero.
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