CFL GM charged

The original headline (since changed) had the word shocker in it.

 

Gotcha. Completely unintentional. And yes, Gomer, it was a bad joke

 

Eric and his family are longtime friends of my mom and dad, and our extended family.
As director of the Senior Bowl, Eric offered me guidance and job leads when I was trying to break into media work.
His accomplishments in and committment to the CFL are many.
I hope this isn't true and I wish the best for my friend.

 

The story I have heard is that the girl in question is his baby sitter.

 

Makes a slight ripple in the water back in Mississippi, as there are folks in Oxford – or so I've heard – who were interested in him as the next Ole Miss A.D.

 

Honestly, I don't find this funny. The charges are serious and can ruin a person's life, even if acquitted. I like Tillman and hope and pray there is nothing to these allegations.

 

You know what else isn't funny? Miscegenation.

Right, Mark?

 

Obviously, I hope the truth comes out here. Yikes.

The Sask RoughRiders have been a major help to me in some previous research.

 

http://www.leaderpost.com/VANSTONE+Familiar+setting+different+emotions/1249847/story.html

Turning the discussion a little bit, how would you have approached the above column? For anyone not in the know, it's the obligatory local-paper-comments-on-hometown-pro-sports-GM-facing-serious-charges column. For the most part I think it was done fairly well. I also wonder what that column might have looked like if there were two papers or other serious print/online competition in Regina.

 

This is where the nickname of his team is unfortunate.

 

Definitely a WTF moment ... the CFL world is quite unsettled today.

 

Good column. Given the circumstances, I don't know how anyone could write anything overly profound. Better not to rush to judgment in matters such as these.