The Chris Carrino Foundation for FSHD

01 Jun

STORY: NBA Announcer Chris Carrino: My Battle Against FSHD Muscular Dystrophy

Yahoo! Sports | The Post Game.

Friday, May 27, 2011 4:11 pm

One of my earliest broadcasting memories is calling the World Series in 1980. It wasn't for any network, just my tape recorder, while watching it on the TV in my parents' bedroom. I was 10 years old. No one ever heard it but me.

17:52 / Foundation News / News

10 May

AUDIO: Chris Carrino Brings Awareness on the Boomer & Carton Morning Show

Chris Carrino appeared on the Boomer and Carton morning show on WFAN, Tuesday, May 3. Listen to the full interview: [audio mp3="https://chriscarrinofoundation.org/newsite2015/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/bc_carrino_interview.mp3"][/audio]...

12:05 / Foundation News / News

10 May

AUDIO: Bob Salter Interviews Chris Carrino on WFAN

An in depth interview with Chris conducted by Bob Salter, which aired on WFAN on Sunday morning, April 17th. Listen to the full interview: [audio mp3="https://chriscarrinofoundation.org/newsite2015/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/bobsalter_carrino_interview.mp3"][/audio]...

12:03 / Foundation News / News

15 Apr

ESPN.com: Chris Carrino talks about life with MD

Updated: April 13, 2011 Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. -- New Jersey Nets radio voice Chris Carrino has been living with a secret for almost two decades. The 40-year-old, who has spent the past decade describing the franchise's run at NBA titles early in the decade to the misery of recent losing seasons, has done it with his body being gradually attacked by a form of muscular dystrophy.

04:04 / Foundation News / News

12 Apr

Star-Ledger Article: D’Alessandro: Battling muscular dystrophy, Nets radio voice Chris Carrino makes the biggest call of his life

By Dave D'Alessandro/Star-Ledger Columnist Published: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 The first time he was aware that something was wrong was when he was in his late teens, and being someone who doesn't complain about anything — that should be on his business card, by the way — Chris Carrino decided to keep it to himself.

14:58 / Foundation News / News

09 Apr

Press Release: "Voice of the NETS" Chris Carrino Reveals Struggle with FSHD

April 8, 2011 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Chris Carrino, the radio voice of Nets Basketball for the last decade, has revealed publicly for the first time that he suffers from Facioscapulohumeral Dystrophy (FSHD), a form of muscular dystrophy. In an effort to raise money for this underfunded...

04:01 / Foundation News / News

22 Mar

NYT Article: "Reanimated ‘Junk’ DNA Is Found to Cause Disease"

By GINA KOLATA Published: August 19, 2010

The human genome is riddled with dead genes, fossils of a sort, dating back hundreds of thousands of years the genome's equivalent of an attic full of broken and useless junk.

Some of those genes, surprised geneticists reported Thursday, can rise from the dead like zombies, waking up to cause one of the most common forms of muscular dystrophy. This is the first time, geneticists say, that they have seen a dead gene come back to life and cause a disease.

04:10 / FSHD News / News

21 Mar

Neurology Today Article: New Report Identifies Pathogen for Fascioscapulohumeral Dystrophy

By: Tom Valeo Published: September 16, 2010 - Volume 10 - Issue 18 - p 15

Nearly 20 years after the discovery of the mutation, scientists have finally determined how it contributes to a common form of muscular dystrophy known as facioscapulohumeral dystrophy, or FSHD, which occurs in about 1 in 20,000 births.

11:45 / FSHD News / News

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