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Tom Archdeacon: Longtime Bengals trainer comes 'full circle'

May 15—When he went to Mad River Junior High School, he began to draw a realistic bead on his sports future. "I was too small to play football, too short to play basketball and I couldn't hit a curveball," Paul Sparling said. He wasn't a sprinter either, but he still wanted to be involved in sports and that's when Odell Pursifull, the track coach and physical education teacher at Mad River, ...