A Great Story From Outside the Lines

[Dirk Legume]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=willows&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab3pos1

I thought it was anyway. This is my neck of the woods, I knew about these kids and still didn't know all of it.

'Bout halfway through, I started to cry. My daughter was in the class of '07. It just really hit home.

 

[Matt1735]

I too enjoyed the read. Stories like this make up for some of the other crap that appears on espn.com

 

[imjustagirl]

I finished it about 10 minutes ago. I'm still crying.

Fantastic story I had known nothing about until that link. Thank you for sharing, Dirk.

 

[slappy4428]

outstanding....sadly...

 

[Dirk Legume]

One of the things that got to me is that my daughter played at least one sport at Willows high every year. They weren't in the same league, but they would play preseason games against each other. Her first travelball team was full of kids from Willows. I could have passed any one of these kids on the way into the gym, or getting back on the bus...it's just scary.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

A well-written story. Took me a long time to finish reading it. I kept having to take breaks to calm myself down.

 

[Shaggy]

ESPN gets a lot of crap, mainly because they are on top, but the OTL series is almost always must-read material. Everyone involves deserves major props.

 

[joe]

A very well-reported story. I thought the reporting was better than the writing, but the writing was pretty good, too. Amazing that so much could hit such a small town.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

I've got one more section to finish.

Had to stop because the gamut of emotions I felt became almost unbearable.

Anyone know if the guy who stabbed those two kids has been sentenced?

 

[Dirk Legume]

KY,

He has not yet been sentenced. the last I knew, after being found by police in a shirt that had the victims blood on it and admitting that he had seen them that morning, he has since said he blacked out sometime the night before and remembers nothing from that day.

 

[I Digress]

heartbreaking

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Dirk, that's forked up. I hope he gets what's coming to him.