On the fourth page of the b section of the sports page I read in the morning, I found some very sad news. This news may only be sad to me though, which is what kind of disappoints me. Barbaro dies, and two seconds later there are 50 articles on the blogosphere we call foxsports, bemoaning the death of a legend. On the television news they have that cheesy music, and fade to silence with a picture of a horse. Oh so dramatic and tragic. Anna Nicole dies and we have sickos on this site talking about what they'd do to her dead body. You can't flip on the cable news without still hearing about this lady who left a trail of kids, and lovers, and money, and drugs, and countless other things. Then she recieves our utmost attention, even after her death. Maybe a suicide, considering the similarties to Marilyn Monroe; Anna wanted to secure her stardom, in a true life Shakespearean tragedy of love and deceit, and ultimate death.
Back to 4b of the paper this morning....Player dead, broken neck, dead on impact, helmet to helmet block, 25 years old, a delay, a completed game, a family left behind.
It saddens me that our society has its priorities so #### up.
It begs me to ask the question, "where are your priorities today?"
Love one another, be kind, respect those around you, forgive and forget, say a prayer, and value every second of your life.
Very true Sport. Often times we can go through life rushing through our hectic days and getting upset at those who make us stumble. I'm guilty myself on occassions. Unfortunately, many times it's only when tragedy comes home that we realize what's really important.
I didn't even hear about that. Do you have a link to the story?
Unfortunately, we live in a "star driven" world. Real stories get 1/100000000th of the publicity they should! Sad statement on today's media! But, it's what people want to hear!
Great words of advice at the end, sport. We should cherish every moment we have on this earth.
I cannot believe the level of disrespect being shown to Anna Nicole Smith. She was, and still is, a human being. It seems to me that some have taken her larger-than-life character and morphed it to the point where they don't even see her as human anymore, and that is wrong.
Some may say that finishing the football game after a player's death is a show of respect, but I disagree. Continuing the game devalues Javan Camon the human being, while placing too much value of Javan Camon the football player. Again, the world needs to wake up and realize that this is a HUMAN LIFE that was lost, not just a replaceable cog on a football team.
The death of Barbaro was a sad event, but he should not be granted treatment above that of humans.
Realizing how ####ked up our values are as a society makes me want to puke.
I don't even know how the coaches and players could've continued playing after something like that. How do the coaches continue coaching, knowing one of their young players just died on the field in front of them? How do the players continue playing, knowing that their teammate and competitor just died on the field? Having experienced that, how did they go on playing?
The Barbaro thing was driven into the ground so much by the media, its ridiculous. The horse even as great as it was, only won 6 races, yet this horse got more airtime than Sean Salisbury bashing Terrel Owens on ESPN..
Anna Nicole, its all about money. in her life and now in her death.
and Javan Caman???/ who is Javan Caman? you'd never hear of this guy until he dies.
all three of these stories just prove the fact that ESPN and most of the sports media care more about negativity and ratings than inspirational or possitive stories.
ESPN has become nothing more than another crappy #### episode on MTV.
Whats really sad is that most Americans are so ignorant to be sucked up into what the media says and morals and heroism have become boring in their eyes.
I guess we learned Absolutely nothing from 9/11 !!!
I am Javan's girlfriend. We were together for 3 1/2 years when he died. I googled his name and came across this article, I was reading thru comments and read that people thought it was disrespectful to Javan to finish the game that night. The truth is, Javan wouldn't have had it any other way. He would've wanted them to finish the game...because football meant that much to him. His life was lost but he wouldn't have wanted to go any other way. He always told me if he had to go, he wanted to be playing football.
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