Cooper Manning was a rising football star whose career was cut short by a diagnosis of spinal stenosis at age 18. Before that ...

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As is the case at every Texas game, Arch Manning's father Cooper and his mother Ellen Heidingsfelder are at the game, along with Arch's younger brother Heid, a University of Texas student. Arch ...