After reading the good news about Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones' win over cancer, it led to some thinking.

This week Nate Allen sent in a column to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

He started covering the Arkansas Razorbacks in 1973 after graduating from Missouri and he's been doing it ever since despite obstacles.

He's written tens of thousands of words about the toughness of the Hogs, but he may be the toughest journalist in history.

A few years ago Nate missed several weeks of work after throat cancer surgery, but he bounced back.

Then he became a caregiver for his beloved bride, Nancy, and he had to have at least thought about stepping away from writing when she passed.

Nope. After a respectable mourning period, Nate was back his computer.

Then the throat cancer came

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