In fall 2018, Only a Game, NPR's sports radio show, hired me to travel to Sauk Rapids, Minn. to record reporter Tal Pinchevsky's interview with Austin Howard and his parents. Austin, born in Haiti, was adopted by the Howard family in 2010 after the devastating earthquake there. Once in Sauk Rapids, Austin almost immediately took to snow, ice, skates and hockey. Click on "read more" to listen to his story.