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Salas Strong: How San Antonio Harlan's Head Coach Beat Stage IV Cancer
San Antonio Harlan Hawks head coach Eddie Salas was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma on December 24, 2024. He won his battle long before he entered remission.

It was Christmas Eve 2024, but Eddie Salas had given up on sleeping hours ago. Instead, he stared at his bedroom ceiling, wondering how many more Christmas mornings he’d share with his family.
He’d received a Large B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma diagnosis that afternoon. The doctors had found eight different spots on his bones. It was fast-growing. Aggressive. Stage IV.
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