Oregon DBs join boy's fight against cancer.(Sports Columnist)

The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) | December 14, 2008 | Copyright

Byline: George Schroader The Register-Guard

NEWBERG - When it came time to name the pet, there wasn't any doubt, and no hesitation.

The Chinese fighting fish was small, lean and aggressive, and the name just fit, though he isn't sure why. Andrew Meinert called it Walter Thurmond IV.

What does a fish mean? A lot when you're 16 and you're trying to beat this aggressive cancer that came from nowhere. Plenty when you're spending months in a strange city, hundreds of miles from home, getting treatment after surgeons removed an egg-sized tumor from your ...

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