
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Before Ohio State football’s Miyan Williams ran angry, he lived angry. His mother, Millie Ray, remembers a child with a hair-trigger temper. Cross words from other children in their Cincinnati neighborhood easily provoked her son to start fights. Williams remains a man of few words, even for his mother. He couldn’t explain where all of that aggression came from and why it erupted so easily. He needed an outlet, and someone suggested to Ray that she put him in football. Four days after her son tied an OSU record with five rushing touchdowns against Rutgers, Ray told cleveland.com that decision changed her family forever. “I would even say probably football saved my son’s life,” Ray said. “In high school he didn’t get involved with certain things. He stayed out of trouble. Even if some of his friends were doing something, he wouldn’t go with them certain places.…
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