Blogging on Meds

(photo: AP/Ryan McGeeney)

Props to Ryan McGeeney, who this week just proved himself as a better spot news shooter than sports photog, although not with anything photographically, artistically or journalistically significant; give it up to him for the ability and presence of mind to work through physical harm and hopefully grab a great paycheck from it. The (Ogden, Utah) Standard-Examiner PJ was covering the Utah high school track championships, paying attention to a discus event, when he wandered too far and got speared through the leg by a javelin, and he still had the mind to snap his own picture and sell it to AP.

What’s more, this story strikes gold twice with a quote AP got from the Provo High School track team’s Richard Vance. Vance coaches Anthony Miles, the student who speared McGeeney and then in his very next throw went on to win the state title. Talking about the accident, Vance said:

“One of the first things that came to my mind was, ‘Good thing we brought a second javelin.”

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