On Ryan Roberts, and the other side of tragedy

Former UFC fighter Ryan Roberts thought he was retired. But after three years of relentless heartache, fighting now means he's still alive. Ryan Roberts didn’t realize how close he flirted with death until the phone call. It came in the night last autumn, a frantic representative of the Douglas County Department of Health wondering how exactly this veteran MMA fighter contracted a bacterial infection that had only been seen four times over the past 15 years in this cozy patch of Nebraska,