What happened to Tagovailoa is emblematic of the NFL — turning a blind eye to the real impacts of football while continuing to promote the glitz and glam of a violent game. All the rule changes and statements about player safety are just a ruse. A ruse to get people like me to keep watching.

The Washington University men’s basketball team’s senior forward Louis Reinmiller is a proven leader, whose unfortunate circumstances were used in the most constructive way possible to make him the role model that he is to the team today.

Senior guard Camille Keane’s fellow players and her head coach will tell you that she is the epitome of not giving up, of refusing to quit when life knocks her down.

Crazy college stories are a dime a dozen these days, but most tales do not even come close to that of Michael Maley’s encounter with a campus fence on Sunday, Dec. 8. The freshman had just completed the Nearly Naked Run, an event in which students strip down to their underwear and run across the campus.

Normally, a Washington University softball senior’s college career ends with the final out in May, but senior Ally Berenter’s career end came in April. Berenter was hit in the face by a ball while doing defensive drills during practice last Wednesday. The fluke injury required her to fly home for surgery over the weekend.

After snapping his humerus in the first week of the semester, X-ray technicians told Dylan Richter that he wouldn’t be able to play basketball this season. However, the junior co-captain of the Washington University men’s basketball team persevered through an unexpectedly short rehabilitation period and rejoined the Bears’ lineup on Nov. 22 against Augustana College.

A freshman female student walking across the intersection of Forsyth Boulevard and Wallace Drive at 12:45 a.m. this past Sunday morning was struck by an eastbound vehicle traveling on Forsyth through the intersection, according to Washington University Police Department Chief Don Strom.