Don't worry, Sis, I've got you covered

Twin sisters Chloe and Claire Gruenke might have come in last place in their recent track race, but they deserve a medal anyway for the inspiring way they made it across the finish line.

The 13-year-old girls, both eighth-graders from Trenton, Ill., were competing in the 800-meter race at the Southern Illinois State track meet Saturday when Chloe took a tumble, according to KTVI, a local news affiliate in nearby St. Louis.

"I felt something pull and pop in my thigh, and then around the first curve on the second lap it just hurt too bad and I couldn't go anymore so I just fell to the ground," she said in an interview with the station.

She didn't stay there long. Instead, Claire pulled her sister on to her back and carried the injured twin for the remaining 370 meters all the way to the finish line.

Coree Waltering, one of the twins' coaches at Wesclin Junior High School, calls the good deed a "happy coach moment." Another coach, Ted Crail, is thankful he happened to be wearing sunglasses because there were definitely tears in his eyes.

Making Claire's feat even more impressive, she was already exhausted from running a 5:23 mile that made her the Southern Illinois Junior High School Athletic Association mile state champion in her age group.

"They always look out for one another," said Doug Gruenke, the father of the twins. "So this was just a great example."

Homeless player

Maybe the NCAA does have a heart.

The NCAA said Boise State can immediately assist a homeless football recruit who signed to play with the team in February.

Antoine Turner said in an interview with KTVB-TV in Boise that he recently has been living in a motel, along with a car belonging to his girlfriend, as he finishes up classes at Fullerton College in California.

Boise State received clearance Wednesday from the NCAA to reach out to Turner and offer support.

Turner grew up in New Orleans and told the station his mom died of cancer when he was young, putting a strain on the relationship with his father. He said football helped him and that he "brought a suitcase and a dream" with him to California, but he didn't have any money or help from his family back home. He lived wherever he could find.

"I thought I was going to get away from my problems, but they just had started," Turner told the station. "About a year after I came out here, I actually couldn't take it no more. At one time I had the feeling of suicide. I couldn't fight no more."

Officials for Boise State said they didn't realize how bad things were for Turner until the television report. They were in contact with him, but the football coaches had no idea he was homeless.

His diagnosis

Greg Cote of The Miami Herald, after the Nets' Kevin Garnett -- who turns 38 on Monday -- came down with a sore leg: "I don't think it's a stiff muscle. Based on his age and state of his career, it might be the onset of rigor mortis."

Sports quiz

Kevin Garnett was named the NBA's Most Valuable Player during this season.

Sports answer

Garnett earned the MVP honor in 2004.

TIM COOPER

Sports on 05/15/2014