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A Final Return to the Huddle - LA Times
"I could reach out to my teammates," former USC football player Howard McCowan said recently, "but if I did, I know some of them would reach back, and it would hurt them to be associated with a felon. I don't want to put any of them in that position."...

On Saturday, his former teammates reached out to him. They came forward — among them police and parole officers, coaches and former professional football players — to carry the former defensive back to his final resting place.

McCowan, 34, was found dead in his cell Feb. 22, while serving a life sentence as a three-strikes felon at High Desert State Prison in Susanville, Calif...