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NEW YORK -- He ignored the question, the one about whether he'd take his new 25-pound companion and hand it to his father. It wasn't the easiest task for Mark Ingram, a 19-year-old who just had won the most prestigious award in college sports, to discuss a dad who soon will start a lengthy prison sentence for bank fraud and money laundering. Most kids who win the Heisman Trophy are asked about parents who are sitting near them in the Nokia Theater, hard by Broadway's blinding neon. But Ingram's dad, Mark Sr., couldn't make the ceremony Saturday night. He is a federal inmate locked up at the Queens Private Correctional Facility, about 15 miles away out by Kennedy Airport, waiting to begin a 92-month sentence that likely will include two extra years after he attempted to flee authorities last winter -- as his boy was preparing to play for Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. The son runs hard as a rugged running back on the football field, but the old man literally tried to run away from his problems, not the kind of thing a kid wants to dwell on after millions have watched his tear-filled, voice-cracking acceptance speech.
"I'm sure he's excited and proud of me," the younger Ingram said in his hour of glory. "But I've got to keep moving ahead to other things -- the national championship game coming up, our season next year. I've always got to get better."
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