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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The text message hit Michigan?cornerback Jourdan Lewis cell phone sometime after midnight on Nov. 13, only a couple of hours after Iowa upset the Wolverines 14-13 in Iowa City, a loss that put a serious dent in the their Big Ten title and College Football Playoff hopes.The text message from Lewis friend Tucker Vasher read: Keep your head up. Tough times bring out the best! Shows you how tough you are. No matter what I love you, bro. Go Blue!Lewis, an All-America candidate and potential first-round pick in next springs NFL draft, knows that few people are as tough or inspirational as Tucker and his twin brother, Tyler. The 22-year-old Michigan fans were born with osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic disorder that is commonly known as brittle bone disease and which requires them to use wheelchairs for their entire lives.It is inspiration that Lewis will carry into Saturdays game at No. 2 Ohio State (noon ET, ABC/ESPN App), which might decide whether the Buckeyes or No. 3 Wolverines remain in the playoff hunt.Just the way they live their lives is amazing, Lewis said. They dont fear anything. When I think of them, I realize that Im not really going through too much, and I can come back from anything. Even with everything theyre dealing with, theyre still enjoying their lives. Theyre optimistic no matter what.Between them, the Vasher twins have broken 75 to 100 bones, according to their mother, Lisa Vasher, of Harrison, Michigan.They were born with broken bones, she said. They had to take the boys out by C-section so they wouldnt break anything else.About 20 weeks into her pregnancy in 1994, doctors told Lisa and her husband Jeff that something was wrong with their unborn twins. When doctors completed an ultrasound, they discovered their babies femurs were irregularly short and curved. Doctors feared the boys suffered from brittle bone disease.They didnt expect the boys to survive, Lisa said.According to statistics from the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation, there are a minimum of 20,000 people and maybe as many as 50,000 living with brittle bone disease in the U.S. Its much rarer for twins to both have the condition. Lisa Vasher said she has met only two other sets of twins who have osteogenesis imperfecta.Despite their struggles, Tucker and Tyler have never allowed their condition to prevent them from doing what other people do. When they were younger, they sometimes attended school wearing full-body casts. A nurse was assigned to keep watch over them at school, and their friends made sure other students didnt bump into their wheelchairs. Their bones are that fragile.Each of the Vasher twins has titanium rods in both their shins and their hips to keep them straight and strong. Tucker also has rods in both forearms and biceps; Tyler has a rod in his left bicep. The titanium, TV antenna-like rods in their shins expand as their bones grow.Tucker and Tyler know they can break a bone at any minute, regardless of the precautions they might take. Tucker broke a rib while sneezing and broke his arm while picking up a small Diet Coke at McDonalds. When they were younger, their parents wouldnt allow them to watch horror movies because they feared the boys would break a bone if they were startled.A couple of years ago, Tucker broke his arm while fishing in the lake behind his familys home in the upper peninsula of Michigan. He was using light tackle, only a bobber and worm, but when he opened the bale and flicked a line into the water, his arm snapped in half.Fishing was the one thing you couldnt take away from me, Tucker said. It was the one thing I was allowed to do. Right there, my fishing career was over. I could never fish again.That summer, Tucker broke his arm four times in three weeks. When doctors repaired his left arm, they rolled him over on the operating table and accidentally broke his right arm. Another time, Tucker fell out of his wheelchair and into an old fire pit. He broke both legs and arms and had to spend a couple of months in bed.There are a lot of cases that are worse than us, Tyler said. There are some kids that have to lay in bed up against a pillow all day. Believe it or not, were pretty fortunate.The Vasher brothers spend a lot of their time on social media and playing video games. Tucker is very active on Twitter -- he has tweeted more than 38,000 times and has more than 4,000 followers. Tyler is a little less active but still has tweeted more than 16,000 times to his more than 1,400 followers. Neither one is shy about sending messages to professional athletes and other famous people.The brothers have had online interactions with Los Angeles Angels star Albert Pujols, Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, former Lions running back Barry Sanders and Atlanta Falcons receiver Julio Jones. Angels All-Star outfielder and AL MVP Mike Trout even sent them an autographed bat.A couple of years ago, Detroit Lions defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh invited the Vasher twins to watch a game from his luxury suite. Detroit Tigers All-Star pitcher Justin Verlander gave them on-field passes to a game against the Angels, and they were able to meet Verlander and Trout.Tucker is amazing, Lisa said. Tucker is Mr. Social Media and is all about it. Theyve been through so much. When I see them happy and doing what they love, it makes me happy.Few things make the Vasher twins happier than watching Michigans football team play. Their uncle, Jim Vasher, was a Michigan season-ticket holder and took the brothers to a few games in the past. Jim, a military veteran, wore the same clothes to every game -- khaki pants and a Michigan shirt. He started the routine long before Wolverines coach Jim Harbaugh made the conservative attire famous.About a year ago, Tucker started an online conversation with Lewis, one of his favorite Michigan players.We started talking to each other on Twitter, and I asked him what he liked to do when he wasnt playing football, Tucker said. He said he liked to play video games, and we started playing Xbox.Eventually, Tucker and Tyler started playing online Xbox with Lewis and his teammates, including tailback DeVeon Smith, defensive end Taco Charlton and safety Delano Hill. The Vasher twins forged a friendship with the Michigan players by playing games like Call of Duty, Madden NFL 17 and NBA 2K, while chatting online with them for hours.We just had conversations with them while we were playing the games, Lewis said. They were Michigan fans and seemed like really good guys.After Tucker had surgery at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor this past spring, Lewis and his girlfriend visited him while he was recovering. Tucker invited Lewis to visit his home in Harrison, which is about 160 miles northwest of Michigans campus.On April 23, Tyler and two of his friends drove to Ann Arbor to pick up Lewis. A native of Detroit, Lewis didnt know what to expect. Harrison has about 2,100 residents and only two stoplights. Theres a seasonal Dairy Queen and not much else. There isnt a lot to do besides hunting and fishing. Harrisons schools are even closed on the opening day of deer season each fall.When Lewis arrived in Harrison, the first thing the Vasher twins asked him to do was dunk a basketball. They had never seen anyone do it in person. Then they spent the rest of the day playing video games and doing other things, like hitting golf balls over the lake with a baseball bat and shooting pellet guns.It was probably one of the best times Ive ever had, Lewis said. Theyre some of the kindest people Ive ever met. They welcomed me into their home and didnt even know me. Theyre just really great people. Im so glad I met them.Sometime Saturday morning, Tucker will send Lewis another text message of encouragement. Its a message Lewis wont take for granted.What I bring from my life to his is to always be appreciative, Tucker said. With all of my tragedies, I try to bring out all the positives. I love my life. I couldnt be more thankful. Anything can happen in one second to where your life is changed. 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Barcelonas entertaining victory ensured the defending Spanish champions retained their share of the league lead with Atletico Madrid two rounds ahead of their meeting in the capital. Real Madrid needed a late goal by substitute Jese Rodriguez to earn a 3-2 victory at Valencia to stay in third place and three points behind its title rivals. Sri Lanka Cricket and Muttiah Muralitharan have traded caustic verbal blows following an altercation between Murali and the Sri Lanka team manager. SLC has made a formal complaint to Cricket Australia over the altercation, and has also contended Murali had conducted centre-wicket training at the Pallekele ground without permission.With consternation about Muralis role as spin-bowling consultant with Australia already high at SLC, a rumour began to circulate that Murali had influenced the preparation of a turning pitch at the P Sara Oval for Australias practice match last week. Having represented Tamil Union Cricket Club for much of his career, the P Sara Oval was effectively Muralis home ground. It is a venue where he commands substantial respect.Sri Lanka would have preferred Australia to play their practice match on a seaming deck at odds with the surfaces that would be prepared for the Tests. Yet, Australia spinners Steve OKeefe and Nathan Lyon shared 12 scalps in that game, on a surface that had begun to take significant turn by day three.Having caught wind of the suggestion that he was responsible for the nature of that pitch, Murali said he confronted Charith Senanayake, whom he believed to be the source of the accusation. Murali denies having had any influence over the preparation of the P Sara pitch. Senanayake denies having sparked the rumour.Charith has accused [me] and told the media that I have cut the grass on the pitch to help Australias spin bowlers to take the wickets in the three-day game. Thats a lie, Murali said. When I met him I asked him: We played together and respected each other, why are you telling lies?, he told me that they have just made an inquiry.The Tamil Union wicket was made at the time by Janaka Sampath, who is the SLC board curator. They should clarify from him what actually happened, rather than going on rumour.Tempers are understood to have spilled over during the exchange. SLC was eventually notified, and on Monday, its president Thilanga Sumathipala said the board was deeply disappointed by Muralis actions and had lodged a complaint with CA.There are two problems here, Sumathipala said. The first is that Charith Senanayake has made a complaint that he had been berated. The second is that a certain training session for the Australia players at Pallekele had been carried out without permission.Were very disappointed because Murali is a player the board spent a lot of effort saving. We saved him three times. From a professional standpoint, there is no problem with him working with the Australian team. But the issue here is an ethical one. Weve named the trophy the Murali-Warne Trophy.And I remember once when we went to Kandy with Murali, he was on a truck and there was so much support for him that it took four hours for him to get home. Kandy is his hometown, and hes now had to coach an opposition team at Pallekele. Regardless of professionalism, were very hurt by this.SLC vice-president Mohan de Silva attempted to calm tensions, stating the board had not lost respect for Murali, but others within the cricket establishment had continued to express their dismay. When Sri Lankas sports minister also expressed disappointment over him taking the Australia job, Murali reacted by admonishing the board for casting aspersions upon his ethics, and drew attention to his substantial body of humanitarian work.About two years ago, the board headed by Nishantha Ranatunga asked me to do some work with the spinneers and I said yes, and I went and worked with the Sri Lankan spinners for 10 or 15 days, Murali said.dddddddddddd Since then no Sri Lankan board has asked me to do any job. If they had asked me before the [Australia] series to be a consultant, I would have said yes. They didnt want me, and someone else wanted me. How could I be a traitor to this country? Australia asked me to coach for the entire series, but I told them I can only do 10 days because I dont want to be in the opposition dressing room during the match in Sri Lanka, thats not ethical.Sri Lankan people have done a lot for me, and I think I have done a lot for them as well. Along with a friend Ive opened the Foundation of Goodness, where every year we help 50,000 families. We built 1000 houses after the tsunami. Cricket-wise, through the foundation, we made about 30-40 wickets in the Northern and Eastern provinces. We hold an annual reconciliation tournament. We do more than what Sri Lanka Cricket does, with our own funds.Murali said Sri Lankans pursuing coaching opportunities with other countries was a result of their being unfairly treated by the SLC.These people who are accusing me should go and look in the mirror [and compare] what they are doing to the country and what I am doing. The other fundamental wrong is that when our players become brilliant coaches, the board chases them off. Im talking about Chandika Hathurusingha, Chaminda Vaas, Marvan Atapattu, Mario Villavarayan, and Thilan Samaraweera, who went to Australia. These people are all working in different countries where they are valued more than they are here.What we do is bring all the top coaches from abroad when we already have the talent. We are not using it. Am I the traitor or are they the traitors? When they pay also - the foreign coaches are paid so much more than the Sri Lankan coaches.Murali was also incensed by how much had been made of his association with Australia in particular, a role which he felt offered personal vindication given his travails in Australia during his career. He had initially worked with the Australia spinners during a series in the UAE in 2014, before being approached again ahead of this series.I know in 95 and 96 I had problems against Australia, and the whole of Sri Lanka backed me. I thought that when Australia asked me to coach, thats them saying that I dont do anything wrong - that I am correct and they were wrong at the time. Thats their proving it by asking me to train their spinners.Does SLC think that just because I coach Australia for 10 days, Australia will win? If thats the case I am the best coach in the world, and Sri Lanka should hire me every time, and we will win every time.Former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara tweeted in support of Murali on Monday evening. Murali is a great son of Sri Lanka and he doesnt have to defend himself. He loves his country, Sangakkara wrote. He is free to consult or coach anyone. If SLC had ever asked him to coach Sri Lanka, he always will. His consultancy with anyone is a way he can give back to the game.He has given his best to his country on the field and off. He is always available for his country, all they have to do is ask. We [should be] proud of him. If any Sri Lankan spinner walks up to [Murali] and asks him about bowling, he will be the first to spend as much time as needed to help. Free. ' ' '