April 4, 2011
No Miracle for Mandi, Except the Gift of Her Short Life
The following article appeared April 4 on the Sporting News Web site.
By David Whitley
AOL FanHouse Columnist
Everybody knew this day was coming. We’d get up and read “Mandi Schwartz, 1988-2011.”
So there was no shock when she passed away Sunday, not after what she’d been through. There is just the standard struggle to make some sense of it all.
If ever a story deserved a happy ending, it was this one. By now millions of people are at least vaguely familiar with Mandi’s tale.
Complete article can be accessed via the Sporting News Web site by
clicking here.












