Posted on 04/26/2006 1:15:48 PM PDT by Gil4
Sounds like a suicide. Or accidental asphyxiation.
Unfortunate incident? And the kid is dead? Sounds like much more than an unfortunate incident.
Hazing maybe? Or serious team drinking stunts?
I hope not, but since he was a freshman pitcher, this sounds like hazing. If so, some kids are in bigtime trouble, as they should be.
Incident? I imagine the nature of the "incident" will come out a little later.
Strange and sad but I thought deaths were public records, I don't think they can keep a lid on it very long.
Yeah, sports radio reported the initial injuries a few days ago...
This is some of the most surreal secrecy I've ever seen about anything like this.
Perhaps a dogpile. It's popular in HS to do that now to 'noobs' on a team.
I didn't think of those possibilities. Thanks for pointing them out. I shouldn't have been so quick to come to a conclusion.
"Perhaps a dogpile."
Please explain for those of us who don't have a clue.
From this site:
http://media.www.nevadasagebrush.com/media/storage/paper553/news/2006/04/25/BreakingNews/Sheriffs.Investigate.Unr.Baseball.Players.Death-1876988.shtml?sourcedomain=www.nevadasagebrush.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com
University of Nevada, Reno freshman pitcher Steve Masten died Tuesday after suffering an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 18.
Officials haven't released a cause of death and the Washoe County Sheriff's office is still investigating the case.
He was in the Washoe Medical Center's intensive care unit until he died.
Becka Higgs, a Nye Hall resident assistant, said Monday that an Argenta Hall resident suffered an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound off campus.
a dogpile is when your child, generally a son, ends up on the bottom of a large pile of other students. Think of piling on in football.
My middle son got dogpiled and was scared of suffocating, and had really sore ribs. But he took it for the team -- no words or problems. BUT the coach has since (not because of him alone) halted the behavior.
Facts end speculation. thanks.
Game of Russian Roulette? Or of course it could be suicide, young men sometimes have problems at that age. Either way, my sympathies go out to the parents.
I though the same thing as you, but I didn't want to use the "s" word.
I thought the mother's comments were weird: "It's an unfortunate thing that happened and we have to move on."
I imagine having a microphone shoved in your face for the first time while you're going through an extremely difficult time can make the words come out strange, but I don't even remember the kid's name and I'm not ready to "move on" yet.
I had to dig for that one. Poor kid. I have the utmost sympathy for his parents and for all who called him a friend.
Suicide is a sad thing, whenever it happens.
I hope the silly speculations will end.
Unless a crime was committed I would hope the media respects the family's privacy during this tragedy.
The problem was suicide. Enough already!
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