MIAMI — I am watching a man paralyzed from the neck down lift an artificial arm by merely thinking about do so. I am watching another quadriplegic play drums thanks to similar microchip in his brain.

I am listening to doctors talk of hypothermia protocol, brain-computer interface and how artificial intelligence will help change the wheelchair world.

“What do you think?” a scientist asks.

“This is the greatest sports story of my lifetime,” I say.

Dalton Dietrich looks around as people in wheelchairs talk with doctors and doesn’t see sports. But the scientific director of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis understands.

“Look at all the good since that awful day 40 years ago,” he says.

*Forty years ago Sunday, Marc Buoniconti made a tackle as a Citadel linebacker took the final step o

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