PORT ARTHUR, Texas -- Remember at the beginning of the high school football season I wrote that I was trying to redirect my mind from the tragedy and confusion of the shooting of a TV reporter and cameraman (and one more person) in Virginia? Remember when I said Ricky Williams, Brandon Marshall and Metta World Peace came to mind when it comes to athletes battling mental illness?Here we are 10 weeks later, and what has happened?
Shooting deaths at Delta State University, Umpqua Community College, Northern Arizona University, Texas Southern University, Tennessee State University and Winston-Salem State University. Not to mention Wednesday’s stabbing deaths of four at the University of California, Merced, that led to the police shooting and killing the suspect. Or the homecoming parade incident at Oklahoma State University in which a woman is charged with crashing into and killing four spectators.
That’s eight campuses, coast to coast. All in 10 weeks.
What’s worse: In some cases, it’s been reported students were not properly alerted to the tragedy in a timely manner. That’s a whole other column in itself I could write.
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