Football player overdose

dennishoddy · May 19, 2011

As a parent, I feel really bad about the football player from OU dying from a drug overdose.
Its a terrible day for them, and they have my deepest sympathy.

Today, there have been over a dozen of the same incidents among people that are not football players from OU.
Why is this headline news

benjamin-benjamin · May 19, 2011

dennishoddy said:
As a parent, I feel really bad about the football player from OU dying from a drug overdose.
Its a terrible day for them, and they have my deepest sympathy.

Today, there have been over a dozen of the same incidents among people that are not football players from OU.
Why is this headline news

simple it is called supply and demand... the answer to this question is the same for pretty much everything in the media, it is what the public wants, it is not like the media talks/writes about things that no one cares about, if they did then they would go out of business...

bsmith918 · May 19, 2011

It's headline news because he is a celebrity. Painkillers are really dangerous. Austin had seriously considered giving up football due to his back problems this past spring, even though he was going to be the starting MLB for the #1 ranked team in the country. That shows how much pain he was in. Really sad.

Robusto · May 19, 2011

Dennis- A lot of us had high hopes for this young man in his brief time with us. And projected our selves on to him in hopes that we could ... damn it, I got nothing.