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The other day, the Orange County Register’s Mark Whicker decided to write a sports column for recent kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard. Dugard has spent the last 18 years of her life in horrific confinement; Whicker wrote a column “catching her up” with what happened in sports in that time frame. This starts with a “b” and ends with an “ad idea.”
Whicker’s column has earned the tag “worst column ever,” and his attempt to defend the column to FanHouse’s Michael David Smith doesn’t really do him any favors. Everyone makes mistakes, but come on, man: kidnapping really isn’t grist for your weekly 800 words, OK?
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