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The Media Must Handle the McNair Tragedy with a Soft Touch
On July - 4 - 2009
When celebrities or well-known sports figures pass on, the media is quick to hop on the story and get as many details as possible.
First, they attempt to gain information from the police and do some investigative digging to try and find out the scoop on what happened. Then, they turn to friends and family, looking for something they can put in quotations on the front page.
Watching the recent media circus around Michael Jackson's unfortunate death left me appalled and ashamed of every person holding a microphone or pen and pad.
His body was recorded being transported from the hospital to the ...
Miracle on 22: The Story of the 2007 Northern Lebanon Vikings
On May - 25 - 2009
Northern Lebanon is a small AAA high school in the rural village of Fredericksburg in Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, built along Route 22. An out-of-the-way school surrounded on three sides by cornfields, and surrounded on all four sides until only about 10 years ago.
Northern Lebanon, or "NL", is your typical high school. School dances and football games are all the rage. There was nothing better than a weekend with a game on Friday and a dance on Saturday. Football games and getting into trouble, that's high school.
Unfortunately for this school, the football team had a history of, let's say, sub-par seasons. ...
Miracle on 22: The Story of the 2007 Northern Lebanon Vikings
On May - 25 - 2009
Northern Lebanon is a small AAA high school in the rural village of Fredericksburg in Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, built along Route 22. An out-of-the-way school surrounded on three sides by cornfields, and surrounded on all four sides until only about 10 years ago.
Northern Lebanon, or "NL", is your typical high school. School dances and football games are all the rage. There was nothing better than a weekend with a game on Friday and a dance on Saturday. Football games and getting into trouble, that's high school.
Unfortunately for this school, the football team had a history of, let's say, sub-par seasons. ...