Philagape
11-10-2006, 03:51 PM
Reports: Bill Walsh battling leukemia
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Hall of Fame football coach Bill Walsh, who built an NFL dynasty with the San Francisco 49ers and revolutionized the sport with his West Coast offense, disclosed Friday that he has leukemia.
"I'm positive, but not evangelistic," the 74-year-old Walsh told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat and The Sports Xchange Web sites. "I'm pragmatically doing everything my physicians recommend, and I'm working my way through it."
Walsh said the cancer first was diagnosed in 2004, but he feels better since a series of blood transfusions in the past month.
"The worst phase was three or four weeks ago. I've come back dramatically since, and I'm better," he said.
:pray:
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Hall of Fame football coach Bill Walsh, who built an NFL dynasty with the San Francisco 49ers and revolutionized the sport with his West Coast offense, disclosed Friday that he has leukemia.
"I'm positive, but not evangelistic," the 74-year-old Walsh told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat and The Sports Xchange Web sites. "I'm pragmatically doing everything my physicians recommend, and I'm working my way through it."
Walsh said the cancer first was diagnosed in 2004, but he feels better since a series of blood transfusions in the past month.
"The worst phase was three or four weeks ago. I've come back dramatically since, and I'm better," he said.
:pray: