Joplin and Kansas Newspaper Coverage Starts Bringing the Heat to Coach Jeff Sims, Garden City Community College, Missouri Southern State University in Braeden Bradforth Death - Concussion Inc. - Author Irvin Muchnick<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=13459\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Joplin and Kansas Newspaper Coverage Starts Bringing the Heat to Coach Jeff Sims, Garden City Community College, Missouri Southern State University in Braeden Bradforth Death - Concussion Inc. - Author Irvin Muchnick\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"by Irvin Muchnick All politics being local, the prospects for accountability in the negligent football conditioning death of Braeden Bradforth have ticked sharply upward with [\u2026]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=13459\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Concussion Inc. - Author Irvin Muchnick\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-12-08T14:50:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-30T01:03:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=13459\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=13459\",\"name\":\"Joplin and Kansas Newspaper Coverage Starts Bringing the Heat to Coach Jeff Sims, Garden City Community College, Missouri Southern State University in Braeden Bradforth Death - Concussion Inc. - Author Irvin Muchnick\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-12-08T14:50:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-05-30T01:03:22+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/#\/schema\/person\/c99852d8e46ceec0a886198b0541b98b\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=13459#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=13459\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=13459#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Joplin and Kansas Newspaper Coverage Starts Bringing the Heat to Coach Jeff Sims, Garden City Community College, Missouri Southern State University in Braeden Bradforth Death\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/\",\"name\":\"Concussion Inc. - Author Irvin Muchnick\",\"description\":\"Author Irvin Muchnick\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/#\/schema\/person\/c99852d8e46ceec0a886198b0541b98b\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f9c7fc042ac88763761770071501502e9f1011de77f3e768256d506e1f446c57?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f9c7fc042ac88763761770071501502e9f1011de77f3e768256d506e1f446c57?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Joplin and Kansas Newspaper Coverage Starts Bringing the Heat to Coach Jeff Sims, Garden City Community College, Missouri Southern State University in Braeden Bradforth Death - Concussion Inc. - Author Irvin Muchnick","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=13459","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Joplin and Kansas Newspaper Coverage Starts Bringing the Heat to Coach Jeff Sims, Garden City Community College, Missouri Southern State University in Braeden Bradforth Death - Concussion Inc. - Author Irvin Muchnick","og_description":"by Irvin Muchnick All politics being local, the prospects for accountability in the negligent football conditioning death of Braeden Bradforth have ticked sharply upward with [\u2026]","og_url":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=13459","og_site_name":"Concussion Inc. - Author Irvin Muchnick","article_published_time":"2018-12-08T14:50:08+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-05-30T01:03:22+00:00","author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=13459","url":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=13459","name":"Joplin and Kansas Newspaper Coverage Starts Bringing the Heat to Coach Jeff Sims, Garden City Community College, Missouri Southern State University in Braeden Bradforth Death - Concussion Inc. - Author Irvin Muchnick","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-12-08T14:50:08+00:00","dateModified":"2024-05-30T01:03:22+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/#\/schema\/person\/c99852d8e46ceec0a886198b0541b98b"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=13459#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=13459"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=13459#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Joplin and Kansas Newspaper Coverage Starts Bringing the Heat to Coach Jeff Sims, Garden City Community College, Missouri Southern State University in Braeden Bradforth Death"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/#website","url":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/","name":"Concussion Inc. - Author Irvin Muchnick","description":"Author Irvin Muchnick","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/#\/schema\/person\/c99852d8e46ceec0a886198b0541b98b","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f9c7fc042ac88763761770071501502e9f1011de77f3e768256d506e1f446c57?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f9c7fc042ac88763761770071501502e9f1011de77f3e768256d506e1f446c57?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"url":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?author=1"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13460,"href":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13459\/revisions\/13460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

{"id":13459,"date":"2018-12-08T06:50:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T14:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=13459"},"modified":"2024-05-29T17:03:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T01:03:22","slug":"joplin-and-kansas-newspaper-coverage-starts-bringing-the-heat-to-coach-jeff-sims-garden-city-community-college-missouri-southern-state-university-in-braeden-bradforth-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=13459","title":{"rendered":"Joplin and Kansas Newspaper Coverage Starts Bringing the Heat to Coach Jeff Sims, Garden City Community College, Missouri Southern State University in Braeden Bradforth Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nby Irvin Muchnick<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

All politics being local, the prospects for accountability in the negligent football conditioning death of Braeden Bradforth have ticked sharply upward with welcome, if overdue, media attention in the scandal’s dual backyards.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today the <\/span>Joplin Globe<\/span><\/i> in southwestern Missouri weighs in for the first time on how Missouri Southern State University intends to explain its hire of new football coach Jeff Sims on the rebound from Garden City Community College, where he presided over the program that killed Bradforth from what the coroner found to be exertional heat stroke — not, as Sims misleadingly said from the outset, as a result of a blood clot and an act of God.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’ve been advised not to make any comments by both schools,” Sims tells the <\/span>Globe<\/span><\/i>‘s Jared Porter over the headline “UPDATED: MSSU aware of death of Garden City football player.” See <\/span>https:\/\/www.joplinglobe.com\/news\/updated-mssu-aware-of-death-of-garden-city-football-player\/article_cea5c040-fa7d-11e8-9d33-1b358fcaf416.html<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The “UPDATED” refers to a quick-hit item late yesterday in which the <\/span>Globe <\/span><\/i>belatedly published MSSU’s bland and heartless statement that it considered the reckoning for the Bradforth death “a matter for Garden City Community College and the Bradforth family to resolve.” Unconscionably, the university also echoed Coach Sims’s first-day hearsay about a blood clot, purportedly from an unnamed “attending physician,” and ignored last week’s autopsy report emphatically rebutting that theory.<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>Globe <\/span><\/i>was likely catalyzed into action by Concussion Inc.’s calling out of reporter Porter and sports editor Jim Henry for dragging their feet (see yesterday’s story<\/a>). But that is less important now than the fact that they are now in the game.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, over the headline “Physician: Bradforth death preventable,” J. Levi Burnfin of the <\/span>Garden City Telegram <\/span><\/i>offers the first real presentation of the Bradforth family’s side of the story, which in my view aligns with the public interest in the pandemic of deaths in football. See <\/span>http:\/\/www.gctelegram.com\/sports\/20181207\/physician-bradforth-death-preventable<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sports medicine and football conditioning death expert Dr. Randy Eichner knows what he’s talking about when he says an exertional heat stroke fatality “should never occur in college football,” and repeats his earlier statement that the Bradforth scenario “raises serious questions about GCCC football, and maybe even raises the question of reckless endangerment, led by head coach Jeff Sims.”<\/p>\n

Reporter Burnfin also interviews Jill Greene, the attorney for Bradforth’s mother, Joanne Atkins-Ingram, on the stonewalled current status of the investigation into the timeline of the events and other elements.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

DEATH OF BRAEDEN BRADFORTH — CHRONOLOGICAL HEADLINE LINKS<\/b><\/p>\n

https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=13441<\/b><\/a><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"