College football week 14 thread: The Last Boise Scout

The way things are these days, where people wait weeks and months (if ever) to publish an obit or host a memorial - I never "share" news of someone's passing unless I have two sources. Honestly, the world needs actual journalists now more than ever. Except for the fact that there are so many f-ups big and small, the offenders are comforted knowing their particular f-up will likely be topped (bottomed?) within days if not hours.

 

Mark Twain approves.

 

What in the actual fuck?

 

Been there, done that.
We bring them back to life?

 

Personal pet peeve: "Stable" tells you nothing about the severity of a patient's condition. Stable means their vital signs are within normal limits but that could be the result of being placed on a ventilator or other life-support devices. The athlete might be brain-dead, heaven forbid, but in medical terms, that's stable. My father-in-law once scolded me by saying, "Everyone has a temperature, even dead people. If you're sick, you have a fever."

Without additional information, there's no point of reference. Critical? Serious? Fair? Good? That's the second piece of the puzzle you need to determine the severity.

It's like knowing it's third down in a football game, but do they need inches or 40 yards for the first down? It makes a big difference.

I have a feeling the family is just waiting on the decision to end life-support if the player doesn't improve. Unfortunately, someone close to the situation jumped the gun and the SID took the information at face value. I'm not certain I wouldn't have done the same if I trusted the source but I've been burned enough to be super careful in those types of situations.

In Rocky Mount, I wrote a glowing tribute column about the local sports play-by-play guy who was in the hospital with terminal cancer. His wife called the next day and chewed me a new asshole for an hour because nobody, not even his doctors, had told him he was dying.

While it's a terrible mistake, it's a lesson learned for everyone else to get confirmation before posting anything as serious as a death. Sounds redundant, but contacting the hospital media staff or even calling the ICU or CCU floor to speak with the supervising doctor might have saved the major embarrassment.

 

Any outside chance the AAC still had of getting a team into the playoff is evaporating in New Orleans right now. Memphis is kicking the crap out of Tulane late.
Also, this Memphis receiver turns in a nominee for Juke of the Year right here.

 

Which means the conference title game is at West Point, I believe.

 

I made that mistake once when I checked on a patient's condition at a hospital for a follow-up story on a crash or something. They told me "stable." I wrote, "stable" - turned out they were keeping the person alive awaiting organ harvest, but they couldn't say that.

 

Tulane turns the ball over three times in the second half and twice in the red zone and Memphis really grinded out some nice drives to keep Tulane off the field.

That's back-to-back 10-win seasons for Memphis. Have to think the Tigers coach Ryan Silverfield is going to be getting some interest this offseason.

 

So who needs an Iron Bowl win more, Freeze or DeBoer?

 

This time the coroner agrees.

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