LaDainian Tomlinson represents all that is good about sports today. On June 18th, 2012, the former NFL MVP and All-Pro Running back signed a one-day contract with his former team the San Diego Chargers and announced his retirement after a brilliant 11-year NFL career.
In 2006, Tomlinson won the NFL's Most Valuable Player and Man of the Year Awards. He became only the second player to win both awards in the same season, joining Walter Payton, for whom the Man of the Year Award is named.
"LT" as he is known by his legion of fans around the world, became the first player since Edgerrin James in 1999 and 2000 to lead the NFL in rushing in back-to-back years. In addition to earning Pro Bowl honors for the fourth-consecutive season and fifth time in his career, Tomlinson was named first-team All-Pro by the Associated Press and Sporting News, All-NFL by Pro Football Weekly and the Professional Football Writers of America and his teammates unanimously voted him Chargers' Most Valuable Player and Offensive Player of the Year.
Passing along values that were instilled at an early age by his mother, Loreane, Tomlinson and his wife, LaTorsha, have teamed up to become community leaders in both San Diego and their native Texas. Together, they oversee the Tomlinson Touching Lives Foundation. The foundation hosts events throughout the year, including youth football camps in San Diego and Texas, a golf tournament, a fishing trip for kids from The Monarch School for homeless and at-risk teens in San Diego, a Thanksgiving program in which they provide more than 2,100 San Diego families with complete holiday dinners and a Christmas program in which they give away more than 1,500 holiday gifts to the patients at San Diego's Children's Hospital and Health Center. At each Chargers' home game, LT hosts "The 21 Club," where he invites 21 kids from San Diego youth groups and nonprofit organizations to attend a game. After the game, LT invites the children down to the field where they get a one-on-one visit with their football hero.
Another important branch of the Touching Lives Foundation is the "School is Cool Scholarship Fund," which awards 30 annual scholarships to college-bound students based on academics, community involvement and volunteerism. Of the 30 students selected by Tomlinson each year, 15 are selected from San Diego and 15 are chosen from LT's alma mater, University High School in Waco, Texas. Proceeds from his annual golf tournament help support the scholarship fund. The Foundation has also sponsored students from MorseHigh School in San Diego to participate in a summer business program at Columbia University, where the students received entrepreneurial training.
Away from football, Tomlinson enjoys quiet time at home with his family as well as traveling and classic cars.
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