Football Fatality

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Las Vegas Teen Flag Football Star Collapses and Dies 'Playing the Game She Loves'

16-year-old Ashari Hughes was in the middle of a flag football game when she started experiencing chest problems, a family member said.

people.com

"A high school student in Las Vegas died while playing flag football on Thursday night.

The student – who was later identified by the Clark County Coroner's office as 16-year-old Ashari Hughes – was in the middle of a game when she started experiencing chest problems, a family member told KVVU-TV. She had gone to the sidelines to rest when she collapsed.

Ian Salzman, the principal of Desert Oasis High School where Hughes attended, said in an email to parents obtained by KLAS-TV that "staff immediately began providing medical aid and continued until paramedics arrived," but she did not survive."

To me, the weirdest thing about this story isn't that a 16yo dropped dead of a heart attack. It's that the story has been re-written today.

Basically, I read about this on my phone earlier today, and in the original version, there was a quote from the nurse who gave her CPR and tried to save her life. The nurse literally said "I've never performed CPR on a teenager in my entire life"
But as of this evening, every version of the story that I can find, they've omitted that part, and replaced it with a paragraph about how she had a "pre-existing heart condition."

Pravda would be proud.