Nice article. I'm glad the Gophers have D.L. on their squad -- he sounds like a true leader.
(Nitpicking on the writing though...)
I would have liked to see Chip fill out his reporting with maybe following D.L. to class (once the fall semester starts) or follow him around one day to get more of the sights and sounds of how he treats people. It's great to hear it from Chip's words how good of a person D.L. is, but it would be great to see examples of it in the column. What I enjoyed so much about Phil Miller's piece of Jerry Kill was the actual reporting of it, of the first-person stuff he got. Chip kind of just listed D.L.'s resume at points, which yeah, D.L.'s accomplishments are varied enough to be listed, but it would have been nice to have some other background in the story. Again, I'm nitpicking, but I'm just saying.