NFL kicker's missed field goal leads to lifesaving brain tumor diagnosis

In the strange arithmetic of fate, a professional kicker's missed field goal in December became the unlikely first link in a chain that saved a man's life. Mark Toothaker, a Kentucky horse industry professional, was seized by laughter at the blunder — and then by something far more serious, a hidden brain tumor the size of a tennis ball that had gone undetected until that moment of absurd joy. That the seizure struck him at home beside his nurse wife, rather than alone on one of his many road trips, is the kind of contingency that makes gratitude feel almost cosmically complicated. The tumor w