Sportswriter Christine Brennan puts her foot in her mouth up to her knee

Veteran sportswriter Christine Brennan has intrepidly claimed that the Big Ten’s decision to reverse course and play football this fall represents “the darkest day in Big Ten sports history.”

In other apparently not-as-dark days, Ohio State’s Woody Hayes was once fired for punching an opposing player in the throat during a game. Oh, and I guess this is hardly worth mentioning, but Penn State’s Jerry Sandusky systematically sexually abused dozens of young boys for at least 15 years, to the indifference-to-ignorance of the university.

I invited her to comment on Twitter as follows:

Have you issued any retraction of this being the ‘darkest day in Big Ten sports history’? If so, where may I read it?

This is the only reply I received:

Hey, Christine? You screwed up writing the piece. Any reasonable person finds it inaccurate, and the anti-South contempt makes a nice frosting for it too.

But you’re screwing up worse defiantly going down with it. Be a grown-up and admit you made a mistake. We need more of that.

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