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Byline: Mark Snyder
EAST LANSING, Mich. _ Michigan State football coach John L. Smith lives in a world of superlatives.
The best tackle, the biggest play and the hardest hit are all part of the coaching language.
Nowhere in the coaching manual, though, does it explain how to describe the perfect sunrise atop the largest mountain.
That's what Smith faced the morning of July 21 as he sat at Uruhu Point (19,340 feet), atop Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania after making the climb of his life.
"The sunrise was so special because you dream and talk about sitting on top of that mountain and watching the sun come up, and when it happened, what a moment, I couldn't stop crying," Smith ...