He s not so little by the way, is doing it again. remember this video of seven-year-old jack hoffman who ran for a 69-yard touchdown in the nebraska spring game there he is celebrating. jack got his own upper deck trading card to commemorate that day. he signed a few of the cards and auctioned one off on ebay with plans to donate the money to pediatric brain cancer research. the winning big was $6,100. get this twist, the person who placed the bid had no intention of paying, and so what do you do next? we have some news on this. joining us now is jack, his father andy hoffman and james denton, one of the buyers in all of this. and we ll get to how the story came about. jack a, this is the first time we ve been able to speak on tv i m glad you re here with us in that awesome uniform that you have on. before we get into the business side of it, jack, can you just
Describe to me what it felt like to run all those yards to a touchdown? yeah, it felt like being a real husker almost. a real husker almost. was it just so loud in there? what were people quelling yelling to you? i see the players yelling at you on the field there. uh-huh. jenna: it was pretty loud, huh. uh-huh. jenna: why do you like the huskers so much? because rex is on that team. jenna: rex burke head is one of your favorite players ever. uh-huh. jenna: maybe in the entire world. yeah. jenna: i bet so. so, dad, after that run you and i spoke a little bit on the air u said one of the big points of talking about the video is that jack has brain cancer and you want to make sure that attention goes to what effects many children in this country. and so we saw this story just last week about auctioning off these cards, but the bidder, you
Favorite position in football? running back. jenna: running back. what i the other one? probably the quarterback. jenna: you like both. i think you ve got a big future, big future ahead of you, jack, thank you both all three of you for coming in. jack it s finally meet you. we ve talked a lot about you behind your back. i m glad to fine finally see your face. thank you both so much and we will continue to follow jack s story. hope to talk to you very soon. thanks, jenna. jon: had the potential to be kind of an ugly story, had a happy ending. jenna: right, who backs out of that, you know? it s nice that james and the others stepped forward. jon: an amazing rescue caught on tape, a newborn baby stuck in a sewer pipe. we will he ll tell you about the extraordinary lengths that rescuers took to free that little boy.
At the age of 70 from complications due to multiple sclerosis. she was chosen by walt disney himself to be a member of the mouseketeers show. hundreds turned out to remember the long-time film critic roger ebert in chicago today. his wife said he would have loved the service. he died last week after a long battle with cancer. rutgers former athletic director, tim pernetti isn t going away empty-handed. the university will pay him more than $1.1 million. he will also receive health and pension benefits through october 2015. pernetti has said he regrets not firing basketball coach mike rice last year when he saw a video showing rice verbally and physically abusing players. a 69-yard touchdown at nebraska s spring game, anderson, that is 7-year-old
Pension benefits through october 2015. pernetti has said he regrets not firing basketball coach mike rice last year when he saw a video showing rice verbally and physically abusing players. a 69-yard touchdown at nebraska s spring game, anderson, that is 7-year-old jack hoffman carrying the ball. he took the handoff from quarterback taylor martinez. jack is battling brain cancer. he s on a break from chemotherapy and the huskers thought he might like to join them on the field. amazing. let s look up some taco places. i like the left side. yeah? okay, do we need to find out what the waves are like down at the beach? what side do you like better? i like the results on the right. i m gonna go with the one on the left. oh! bing won! people prefer bing over google for the web s top searches.