RIP Jordan Hankins, Northwestern women's basketball player

[Dick Whitman]

Found in her dorm room. No cause reported.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.chic...n-basketball-spt-0110-20170109-story,amp.html

 

[Dick Whitman]

The quote from her brother sure seems to imply suicide. Ugh.

http://www.indystar.com/story/sport...ence-north-star-jordan-hankins-dies/96375850/

 

[poindexter]

NOT JORDAN HANKINS!!

 

[MisterCreosote]

I denounce this.

 

[Dick Whitman]

I don't know. It seems like eww when a Big Ten basketball player kills herself.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Suicide.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.cbss...r-jordan-hankins-found-dead-in-dorm-room/amp/

 

[HanSenSE]

Christine Brennan (yeah, I know ...)

My moment with Northwestern's Jordan Hankins

 

[SnarkShark]

Christine Brennan (yeah, I know ...)

My moment with Northwestern's Jordan Hankins

What the **** was the point of that?

 

[HanSenSE]

What the **** was the point of that?

I'm wondering too. I read it and thought "there must be more," even past the clickbait ads.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

She didn't speak to her, but her sister did.

Was that more amazing than the time Michael Jackson stopped over at Chunk's house to use the bathroom?

 

[SnarkShark]

Christine Brennan needs to get a ****ing clue.

 

[exmediahack]

Christine Brennan needs to get a ****ing clue.

I don't think so. She is the one who has all the clues in 2017.

Rakes in the cash, working the corner of anything involving a female in athletics.

React.

Get check.

Enjoy no scrutiny so that no one else is labeled as sexist or chauvinistic.

 

[jr/shotglass]

 

[MisterCreosote]

What the **** was the point of that?

"Look at me. I'm important. And, this time, my importance happens to be tangentially related to something newsworthy."

 

[Dick Whitman]

I can see how she might be a bit shaken by it, but the news hole is not your therapist. Some ideas sound better in your head than they turn out on paper/the screen.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Chicago has had some fairly high-profile suicides in the last couple years. The Blackhawks' equipment manager, Sheriff Joe (or whatever the **** his name was), and now this one.

 

[Big Circus]

Chicago has had some fairly high-profile suicides in the last couple years. The Blackhawks' equipment manager, Sheriff Joe (or whatever the **** his name was), and now this one.

And while this wasn't high-profile, it certainly got major (and very thoughtful) coverage in the Sun-Times.

Life on a ledge

 

[Moderator1]

Chicago has had some fairly high-profile suicides in the last couple years. The Blackhawks' equipment manager, Sheriff Joe (or whatever the **** his name was), and now this one.

Any more ever come out about the Blackhawks' equipment guy? They played the Caps in the Winter Classic right after that and EPIX was out there doing their "inside look" at preparations when that went down.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Any more ever come out about the Blackhawks' equipment guy? They played the Caps in the Winter Classic right after that and EPIX was out there doing their "inside look" at preparations when that went down.

Not really, from what I can tell. They had a Christmastime story in the Tribune about how the family is carrying on, but it really didn't go into details. I don't even know if he left a note. It's one that bothers me a little bit, because I think he left four kids behind.

I remember when I was covering preps a coach's wife did it. He talked to me about it for a long time one night, but wouldn't consent to a story - he didn't want his kid some day finding out what happened to his mom through Google.

 

[Moderator1]

Yeah, four kids and nothing seemed amiss.

During my days in Richmond, we had a spate of teen suicides. Five in four weeks or some such. One was a very prominent prep athlete, despondent because his girlfriend dumped him. Shot himself in his parents' bedroom. His dad was a local prep coach (not his) and something of a softball God in the area. Ridiculously good guy. I got assigned the story and talking to him was as hard as anything I'd ever done. Another one turned out to be a kid who lived less than a mile from me. His younger sister was in my daughter's class. "How do I explain this to her?" the dad said, referring to his daughter