Texas A&M-Commerce Football Coach: Stealing student newspapers a “team-building exercise”
Deadspin |
March 3, 2010 4:09 p.m.
"Bad: Texas A&M-Commerce players busted with drugs," Barry Petchesky writes, adding, "Worse: players take every copy on campus of the school newspaper running the story. Worserer: coach is proud of their ‘team-building exercise.’ It started in January, when a high school recruit got sick after smoking marijuana with some Lions players. The next month, an undercover sting led to the arrests of two players for possession. The East Texan, as any good student newspaper would, made it front page news in their February 25 edition. Like many newspapers, it found no readers. This time not because the Internet is destroying advertising, but because members of the football team prowled the campus at dawn, stealing every copy of the paper they could find. About 2,000 in total."
