Someone needs to give an assist to John Stockton
John Stockton attended Gonzaga a long time ago, from 1981-84. So the hope is that the academic culture at the Spokane school has picked up since then, right along with the basketball program.
If it hasn’t, the value of that highly regarded Jesuit-school diploma has taken a dive more dramatic than when Stockton would attempt to draw a charging foul on Gary Payton.
Giving professors the benefit of the doubt, perhaps Stockton was on a Zags road trip and missed the health-sciences class discussion on how the Aztec empire was wiped out by smallpox brought by the European colonialists. And how polio at one time was killing five percent of the children who contracted it, and 30 percent of adults. And how tetanus has a 20 percent fatality rate, and survivors take months to recover.
For more than 100 years, these global virus varmints have been curbed and doused by scientists and epidemiologists whose professional heirs now are trying to distribute free, effective vaccines to fight the latest scourge, covid-19.
This week, Stockton, a basketball Hall of Famer legendary as one of the game’s dirtiest players, metaphorically kneed the groins of all the health-care providers trying trying to save lives while fighting through his screen of ignorance.
After two years of failed negotiations with Spokane’s biggest celebrity, university officials suspended his Zags season tickets for his continuing failure to wear a mask at the games he attends, per school requirements.
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