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John Stockton’s defiance of COVID-19 mask mandate forces Gonzaga to suspend Hall of Famer’s season tickets
Seattle Times ^ | Theo Lawson

Posted on 01/23/2022 2:16:35 PM PST by DallasBiff

On any night, John Stockton’s name and No. 12 jersey can be seen hanging from a banner in the south-facing rafters at McCarthey Athletic Center. But Gonzaga and its most prominent alumnus are at odds over the school’s mask mandate, leading Gonzaga to suspend Stockton’s season tickets at home basketball games.

In an interview with The Spokesman-Review on Saturday at The Warehouse — the Spokane-based gym Stockton has owned since 2002 — the NBA’s all-time assists and steals leader, and one of only two players who’s had his number retired by Gonzaga, confirmed the university’s decision to suspend his season tickets for failing to comply with the mask mandate.

Stockton said Gonzaga Athletic Director Chris Standiford notified him of the university’s decision in a conversation the Naismith Basketball Memorial Hall of Fame point guard described as “congenial” but also “not pleasant.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: covid19; covmaskid19; mask
The mask virus is getting some pushback.
1 posted on 01/23/2022 2:16:35 PM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

I doubt if mask mandates were part of the season ticket when he purchased them. Legal battle?


2 posted on 01/23/2022 2:23:10 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 33:12))
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From Brussels to Washington DC to Gonzaga...it’s a wonderful day for the #Resistance.


3 posted on 01/23/2022 2:26:55 PM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Good basis for a breach of contract suit.


4 posted on 01/23/2022 2:34:36 PM PST by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Make those MFr’s pay. That’s the only way this BS ends.


5 posted on 01/23/2022 2:38:00 PM PST by technically right
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To: DallasBiff

Apparently, Gonzaga hasn’t received the memo that midterms are approaching, and it’s time for Covid to end.


6 posted on 01/23/2022 2:42:06 PM PST by AUTiger83 ( )
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To: DallasBiff

Gonzaga University is a liberal cesspool. The law school refused to recognize a pro-life student organization several years ago. I haven’t given them a penny since my last tuition check.


7 posted on 01/23/2022 2:43:05 PM PST by Spok (Who is Ray Epps?)
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To: DallasBiff

Gonzaga wasn’t “forced” to do anything. The Times pretends their decision was something other than an arbitrary bureaucratic fiat.


8 posted on 01/23/2022 2:45:18 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Spok

My dad went to Gonzaga. I wondered what he’d think now?


9 posted on 01/23/2022 2:46:08 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: DallasBiff

Cut off the big donations, they’ll come around.


10 posted on 01/23/2022 2:51:59 PM PST by Old Yeller (1776 em all. Let God sort it out.)
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To: Spok

Our local liberal college requires masks & 3 VAXXes to see a basketball games.
(Lafayette College)


11 posted on 01/23/2022 2:59:18 PM PST by Dr. Scarpetta ( )
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To: DallasBiff

Well SHEET...Falsi was photographed at a sporting event...and no one cancelled his ass.


12 posted on 01/23/2022 2:59:40 PM PST by Osage Orange (1961 VW Two Door Truck)
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To: DallasBiff

Exhibiting the mind that was Stockton/Malone.


13 posted on 01/23/2022 3:01:41 PM PST by lurk (u)
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To: DallasBiff

——they cancelled his TICKETS? That takes a special kind of stupid to even think that up. I can see that really, really, helping enrollment. Do they offer a degree in “thinking up really stupid stuff”? No doubt call it a Bee eeS? They are up US 95 so I guess they’ve been infiltrated by Kalifornicators?


14 posted on 01/23/2022 4:14:45 PM PST by OldWarBaby
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To: DallasBiff

They were “forced” to suspend his season tickets .... really, they were forced? They chose.


15 posted on 01/23/2022 4:52:03 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (When Satan craps another demon possessed Progressive is born.)
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To: OldWarBaby

They didn’t cancel his tickets; they suspended them. This is because Governor Inslee’s unconstitutional edicts. He’s more mentally challenged than even Biden.


16 posted on 01/23/2022 8:55:16 PM PST by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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