Who could resist the heroic - or at least principled, if possibly misguided - story of the Yale quarterback who sacrificed his Rhodes Scholarship interview to play in the big game against Harvard? And ...

Thalles DeSouza overcame a rough childhood and worked at Wendy's as a teen. His bosses gave him a scholarship that helped him get into Yale.

Thalles DeSouza, whose family left dangerous conditions in Brazil when he was just 13 years old, worked at Wendy’s through high school. His bosses there created a scholarship fund for him, helping him ...