Touching high school football story

Wow. That's like it's ripped out of a Hollywood script.

 

Did they cancel the dinner or have it in his memory?

 

Sidebar was a nice way to deal with it. lacking that, I think I'd have found a way to work it into the gamer. Probably no impact on the outcome, but it is part of the atmosphere of the game, and more notworthy than your average crowning. it's at least as importrant to mention it as fights in the stands would be.

 

The dinner is going on as a memorial. Actually, I didn't write the sidebar. I phoned in the details I could gather, a news side guy wrote it and put my byline on it. (I did rewrite the lead.) I had arranged for the kid's mom to call the news side guy through a family friend but she never did. What's funny is the news side was trying to get in touch with the family today when I called to tell them he died.

 

A touching story with a tragic ending. Life does suck at times. At least those high school kids will know they did something good for another human being.

 

Exactly, there's a lot of coverage on a lot of terrible shit that minors due these days. Even though it's a silly thing like homecoming, it's nice to read about kids doing some good, thoughtful things.

 

Link:
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/highschool/news/story?id=3063610