Anemia

They showed up Tuesday at the Eastern Connecticut Sports Center. There were a hundred of them, students and student-athletes, and they wanted to help one of their own. Then there were 200 of them, faculty, staff and administrators, too, and they stood...

Just wanted to pass along the following video from my friends at the Kidz1stFund. As you know, the Kidz1stFund is a nonprofit organization founded last year by Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher and his wife Candi as they, and the many others involved in...

As we mentioned here on the Chopping Block on Saturday afternoon, the Orlando Sentinel and OrlandoSentinel.com had an intriguing Florida State-related feature coming Sunday morning. In case you haven't seen it, here it is. In the link above, you'll see...

As we hinted in another blog Sunday morning, there was much, much more to our feature on Jimbo and Candi Fisher and the year that has passed since their announcement of son Ethan's diagnosis for the rare genetic blood disorder Fanconi anemia. Again, in...

Ten-year-old Nina Petrosino spent the weeks leading up to Wednesday night’s White Sox game at a local park, tossing the ball 90 feet to her …...

Florida State football coach Jimbo Fisher and his wife Candi will be honored at the Florida State Capitol building on Tuesday afternoon for their work with Kidz1stFund, an organization they established to help raise money for treating the rare blood...

As she spoke to the modest gathering of reporters and onlookers, Candi Fisher turned to her left and gave a public thank you to the man in the dark suit standing behind her. She called him: “my hero.” In 1990, at the age of 8, Christopher Byrd...

Newly surfaced report shows Canadian government was told of deadly salmon virus nearly a decade ago, but did not act on the findings...

Good Wednesday morning, everyone. Now that Nigelgate is behind us and a new week has fully gotten going, we can really start looking toward the next game on Florida State's schedule. The Seminoles themselves already have, or at least they contend they...

As had been previously announced, Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher and Virginia coach Mike London brought their families together ahead of Saturday night's contest between their two teams. Both families share an unfortunate bond; two of their children...

As you've undoubtedly found out from numerous news sources by now, Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher on Friday morning finally revealed to the world what exactly was going on with his 6-year-old son Ethan Fisher. During what could arguably be classified as...

Probably the one question we've all been asking ourselves since the 11 a.m. news conference at Florida State finished has been this: What is Fanconi anemia? After FSU coach Jimbo Fisher and his wife, Candi talked in front of cameras about how they are...