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Former ESPN host, Kenny Mayne, turned his personal experience with an injury into an opportunity to help veterans with their recovery.

I sat down with Mayne at the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival, and he told us about how he partnered with a local prosthetics expert to launch his foundation called Run Freely.

Well, I wrecked my ankle my junior year at UNLV.

We were playing at Oregon.

I was in at the end of the game.

We were getting killed.

I threw one long pass.

Some idiot stuck his helmet on my ankle.

So I had a fracture.

Dislocation.

Really fun.

But then you got surgeries and arthritis and old age.

So I wasn't moving around so great.

But I found this guy down in Gig Harbor named Ryan Blanck at Hanger Clinic.

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And he makes insane devices for every kind of disability.

But basically you wear it.

It goes way up here above your knee, and it displaces the pressure off your joint so I can play golf.

I played flag football at the Super Bowl.

I could run, not very far, not very fast.

So Gretchen, my wife, we wanted to do something good about it.

And they had made these for veterans in the first place, right?

So we immediately started this thing called "Run Freely."

Runfreely.org.

Tell your rich friends.

And we just basically raised the money, and then buy the next device.

We've had amazing support.

Jamaal, Gary Payton, Steve Largent, Jerry Rice, Lenny Wilkins.

Dale Earnhardt's helped us.

Steve Kerr, Joe Montana, Mike Penix.

- Wow.

I'm leaving out some names.

They've all either given their time or their name or their money and helped us raise the next dollar to give to the next vet.

So basically, Ryan keeps a list.

Here's the ones who've been waiting the longest.

Here's the one with the most need.

All this week we'll bring you segments from our conversation with former ESPN host Kenny Mayne.

I'm Paris Jackson.

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