Lott Profiles 2010 (No. 3, June 14)
The Q in Robert Quinn’s name does not stand for quitter.
Quite the contrary.
Quit when double teamed? No way. Quit when the play is on the opposite side of the field? No chance. Quit when they discover a tumor in your brain and tell you sports may be out of the question. Nope, not Robert Quinn.
The Imperial Valley lies deep in Southern California, tucked up against the Mexican border. It is farm land, where they grow tons of lettuce and thousands of pounds of onions. They grow plenty of melons and truckloads of sugar beets.
And one linebacker. One very good linebacker.
Mike Mohamed, the great-grandson of an immigrant farmer who built a thriving farm in Brawley, has grown to be a 240-pound tackling machine for the California Golden Bears.