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RIP Jordan Hankins, Northwestern women's basketball player

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Dick Whitman, Jan 10, 2017.

  1. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    If she wants to send a sympathy card, postage stamps are still relatively cheap. Now if she'd told us something more about the dearly departed than she paid attention during a team talk, we might have something to work with, like you did. Otherwise, it's a waste of bandwidth and print space (assuming it ran in the dead tree edition).
     
  2. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    That's good.
     
  3. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    This is the second time in a couple weeks that Brennan has told us about her Northwestern ties. First was while calling for fellow alum Musberger to resign after his thoughts on Joe Mixon during the Sugar Bowl, and she even said in the same piece that she likes him, she emceed his induction into the school's Hall of Fame, blah blah. Can her column headshot be retaken with a Wildcats hat?
     
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  4. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    "I went to school in Chicago. Well, outside Chicago."
     
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  5. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    Musburger.
     
  6. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Shoulda just gone with Big Game Brent.
     
  7. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    I pretty much agree with the take on Brennan's column. But I would be interested to gauge the reaction of a cross-section of the readership that isn't a bunch of sports journalists commenting on a message board where Christine Brennan has long since become a bit of a punchline.
     
  8. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    If Jeff MacGregor or Charlie Pierce wrote it posters would be threatening to beat up other posters by this point in the thread.
     
  9. JohnHammond

    JohnHammond Well-Known Member

    The SJ.com contingent is the readership that would have any sort of reaction.
     
  10. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    Yeah, that's a good point.
     
  11. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    That thing was utter rubbish.
    Christine, no one gives 2 fucks that you went to Northwestern, and that you sit on the board.
     
  12. Jake_Taylor

    Jake_Taylor Well-Known Member

    Yeah, but how many of us have ever been in the same room as somebody who eventually died?
     
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