Swanson: Former UCLA lineman Amir Ekbatani living a life he loves
The Swim With Mike Foundation helped Ekbatani find his bearings and purpose as a singer-songwriter after he lost his leg in a 2012 motorcycle crash.
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Mirjam Swanson is a sports columnist for the Southern California News Group. For the previous four years, she covered the Clippers, the NBA and the L.A. Sparks. Before that, she wrote about LeBron James and the rest of the Dream Team at the 2004 Olympics (where, yes, they took bronze), Tiger Woods winning the U.S. Open on one leg, and also had a tour reporting on city government, education and the occasional bear in a backyard