Tag: high school football
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Five Deaths in Eight Years: Football’s Heartland Problem Nobody Wants to Name
MicahJo Barnett’s death at William Jewell College is still medically unexplained. But across Kansas and Missouri, a troubling series of young football deaths — many involving extreme heat — demands a larger question: why does the same safety conversation restart every August and disappear every winter?
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Friday Night Lights—or Friday Night Fights?
What was supposed to be a Friday night showcase of high school football turned into something very different at Bishop McNamara. A game riddled with unsportsmanlike penalties, cut short by a fight, and marred by the shocking absence of an ambulance when a Concordia Prep player suffered a serious injury. For nearly an hour, the…
