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    Wade Lees will be a 31-year-old punter for UCLA this season

    by Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times Aug 17, 2019 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - He wouldn't be here now if just one thing didn't go so terribly wrong.

    His single mother's back troubles that required five surgeries and forced him to drop out of high school to get a job installing utility pipes.

    His suspension from Australian rules football for ordering a fat-burning product that contained traces of a banned substance.

    His college teammate dying from heatstroke and his coach getting placed on indefinite leave only to be reinstated and dismissed the following day.

    All of it led Wade Lees to UCLA, and that's the only thing that mattered as the 31-year-old punter stood on the edge of a practice field and contemplated his unlikely final college season.

    "There's a bit of a story behind

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