How a basketball coach overcame a near-death experience to return to the sidelines

Tasked with leading one of The Basketball League’s expansion franchises this past spring, all coach Ed Corporal did was guide the Frederick Flying Cows to a 20-6 record and the Atlantic Northeast Division championship. That might have been one of the easier feats he accomplished. Corporal, a former high school basketball coach at Meade, overcame a pair of strokes in 2013 that left him paralyzed on the left side of his body and required more than a year of physical therapy to regain the ability to walk. That ordeal has provided him with a fresh perspective.