
Alabama 14-year-old dies after collapsing at football practice: 'He just had a love for sports'
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New Brockton High School freshman Semaj Wilkins died Tuesday after collapsing during football practice. His mother spoke out about the incident.
"He said, ‘No, I want to go out for football. Mama, I can hit ‘em, I can hit ‘em.' … He just had a love for sports, period," Wilkins' mother, Regena Johnson-Adams, told WDHN-TV, adding her son loved baseball and basketball too. Jackson Thompson is a sports writer for Fox News Digital. He previously worked for ESPN and Business Insider. Jackson has covered the Super Bowl and NBA Finals, and has interviewed iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.
Temperatures in the area Tuesday afternoon reached 96 degrees, according to National Weather Service data.