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Cross-Country Girl Breaks Leg, and Finishes Race

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Chef, Nov 16, 2007.

  1. Chef

    Chef Active Member

    Did anyone see this?

    All advanced apologies if this is a db.

    Brace yourself if you watch the video.

    http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/highschool/news/story?id=3111847&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab8pos1
     
  2. EStoess

    EStoess Member

    Wow. That's amazing.

    Did the News Herald do anything more than the gamer I found via google?
     
  3. Big Buckin' agate_monkey

    Big Buckin' agate_monkey Active Member

    She should meet this girl: http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/49386/
     
  4. EStreetJoe

    EStreetJoe Well-Known Member

    Wow. Amazing story.
    Unbelievable courage and determination
     
  5. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    If the first girl was named Buck, is this one named Hopper?

    Sorry.
     
  6. Big Buckin' agate_monkey

    Big Buckin' agate_monkey Active Member

    Don't apologize.
     
  7. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    Honestly... if she isn't SI sportsperson of the year, retire the fucking honor.

    Incredible.

    I've never seen such an effort on such a tiny stage.
     
  8. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Haha, what a fuck up by both them and the PD. In one of the most hilarious cases of burying the lead, here are the last two paragraphs of the PD story on this race. Granted, Berkshire is about as fringe a school as the PD covers, but c'mon!

    http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/stories/index.ssf?/base/sports/119416933284390.xml&coll=2
     
  9. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    I will revise -- not a fuckup by the N-H b/c they did have the story the day after it happened. PD, tho, should have had muuuuuuuuuch more.
     
  10. BBJones

    BBJones Guest

    TheSportsPredictor, is that in their coverage area? If so, that is indeed a major gaffe by the writer, no?
     
  11. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    PD, it is more of a fringe school, but you would think they would do a follow-up. They did name a couple Berkshire kids as players of the week in September.

    NH covers 'em, they got the story.
     
  12. BBJones

    BBJones Guest

    Since it appears the Plain Dealer left very little space at all for the entire meet, if you focus on that girl, what would happen to the people that won the meet? A follow-up was certainly warranted. I suppose they had to get in their 12 pages of professional and major college coverage that day, though, because that stuff certainly isn't available anywhere else.
     
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