Phenix City native Larry Florence played college basketball at the University of Nebraska. Courtesy of the University of Nebraska Now 47, Florence was 37 when he was diagnosed. The five-year ...

Larry Florence will become the first central basketball player to have this ... he signed a scholarship to play at the University of Nebraska. Florence would continue to shine as a Cornhusker.

“I know if I can go through four years of college basketball, I can fight this battle,” he said. Florence was a standout player at Central High (1991-95). He went on to Nebraska and then the ...