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Beating The Odds, Beyond 'The Blind Side'

Michael Oher is at the top of his game as a player with the NFL franchise, the Baltimore Ravens. It's a far cry from his childhood experiences that included tough times and homelessness. His rags- to-riches life story was the subject of the award-winning, Hollywood blockbuster "The Blind Side", starring Sandra Bullock as his adoptive mother.

Host Michel Martin speaks with Michael Oher about his life, newly-found fame and his new memoir, I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond

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