Ron Jr Copeland

The obvious comparisons keep coming, and Ron Copeland Jr. handles them much as he sails over hurdles. With grace. At times, it seems, there is a parade of people talking about his father, Ron Copeland Sr. The former football player and track star at UCLA, and at Dorsey High School in Los Angeles before that, died suddenly 13 years ago this month at 28. The people want to talk memories, and that's fine with young Ron.

The obvious comparisons keep coming, and Ron Copeland Jr. handles them much as he sails over hurdles. With grace. At times, it seems, there is a parade of people talking about his father, Ron Copeland Sr. The former football player and track star at UCLA, and at Dorsey High School in Los Angeles before that, died suddenly 13 years ago this month at 28. The people want to talk memories, and that's fine with young Ron.