“After the Loss of a Son, a Football Coach Confronts a Terrible Truth”

First of all, the header of this article is very helpful in my opinion. Personally, when I first read the title my initial thought was that there ended up being some sort of scandal that went on. The header cleared up my thoughts in stating that the son of this coach had a brain disease & that the father was forced to come to terms with this.

Meiko Locksley, son of Michael Locksley, was a natural born football player and it ended up costing him his life. Back in 2017, Meiko was shot and killed at the age of 25 after his parents believed him to be beginning to slip away from football and starting to run with the wrong crowd.

“I always thought, like, how do you go from a normal 21-year-old Division I football-playing person to, literally six months later, saying you hear people in the basement of an apartment where you lived on the eighth floor and you don’t have a basement?” Michael questioned. I think this article uses great quotes, which are directly from the source. I also believe the timeliness of the quotes that they use are good because they capture you at the right times and make you continue wanting to read.

I think the article does a good job at being informative and story-telling at the same time. A lot of articles have the tendency to sway one way or the other, which can make them seem repetitive at times. So, when reading this article it’s soothing to feel like you’re learning new information and being told a story at the same time.

Lastly, I like how this article uses outside sources and actually sites them along with giving visuals to the reader. This allows the reader to be able to feel comfortable consuming the information being given without feeling like the statistics are being pulled out of nowhere. Every article that is informative should be able to site where their information is coming from.

This morning I, Dayne Davis, had the luxury of having an interview with none other than Omaha native himself, Jack Larchick.

Jack was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska where he was brought up in a family full of background in combat sports and started wrestling at the age of 5. Larchick’s father wrestled at Columbia University in New York, his grandpa was a glove boxer, and his uncle was an MMA fighter as well. Jack gives credit to his upbringing for making him a hard worker as he’s seen a good mix of white collar and blue collar work.

Along with wrestling, Jack began playing football at a young age and Morningside University allowed him the opportunity to continue his football career at the next level. Morningside has been a top program at the NAIA level for years now so getting the opportunity to play at the highest level was a blessing for Jack but he didn’t see it as something he needed to continue focusing on. So, he decided to end his football career and focus on his education.

Jack is now on the way to a degree in Business Administration. He then plans on into sales, more specifically, construction sales. This is a field of work that Larchick feels he holds a lot of experience in being that he’s previously worked in construction for years. Jack believes that his knowledge in this field of study will propel him into a successful career in construction sales.