Wth? Shaun Ellis OK?

[VOLup2uous]

I did this same exercise in college, it is for practice. The person that allowed it on the web is irresponsible at best.

Yeah, can you imagine the phone calls his family received???

 

[VOLup2uous]

Yeah, can you imagine the phone calls his family recieved???

Sorry, received...

 

[Mullet]

If I were Ellis, I would file suit against the organization that allows slander/libel.

 

[VOLup2uous]

If I were Ellis, I would file suit against the organization that allows slander/libel.

I would check into my options...

 

[Mullet]

I would check into my options...

i'm assuming that's some type of sarcastic comment -- i'm too redneck/stupid to get it.

I guess that makes it a bad joke.

 

[ZZ13]

I did this same exercise in college, it is for practice. The person that allowed it on the web is irresponsible at best.

Why not use fictitious characters or persons already deceased? Agree at a minimum big mistake making that public.

 

[chili dog]

Now that we know this isn't true.....

Is Shaun Ellis' real name "MeShaunda Pizarrur“ .ost-4-1090547912:

 

[OrangeWilly]

Why not use fictitious characters or persons already deceased? Agree at a minimum big mistake making that public.

Not sure, but I remember I wrote about Joe Dimaggio.

 

[SuperVol]

Sorry, but the days of the internet this isn't funny... Even if we didn't have the internet how could you write about someones death???? He even mentioned his wife, kids, and the church(scary):sick:....

Yeah I totally agree.

 

[Ohio Vol]

Wouldn't it be weird if Ellis saw that? I mean, if I saw my own before I died it would kind of freak me out.

Mark Twain had his legendary response to this situation.

On the other hand, W.E.B. DuBois saw his obituary published in the paper and suffered a fatal heart attack.

 

[TennesseePride]

Now that we know this isn't true.....

Is Shaun Ellis' real name "MeShaunda Pizarrur“ .ost-4-1090547912:

Yup

 

[etvolsfan]

What a terrible, sick, and demented thing to write.

 

[Vol Mania 21]

hold on, is Shaun alive or what?

 

[SuperVol]

hold on, is Shaun alive or what?

Shaun is fine. It is a fake obituary that a student wrote. I guess it was to practice their obituary skills.

 

[gainesvol82]

TNJN - Former UT defensive end dies of heart failure

Who got fired for this?

Ummm.....I don't recall Shaun Ellis being 4th on the all-time lists for sacks in the NFL. WTF is this?

 

[gainesvol82]

If I were Ellis, I would file suit against the organization that allows slander/libel.

Is saying a guy's dead slandering him?

 

[4everaVol]

this story isn't real. A student wrote this for a class and I have no idea how it was published. I know because I am the sports editor of the Tennessee Journalist. I would not have let anything that didn't happen for real related to UT be published under my command. And if Ellis died for real, I would have broke the story instead of a staff writer.

 

[kcvols1]

Is saying a guy's dead slandering him?

It is if you can convince a jury that it damages his reputation.

In this case, it would be libel. Slander is spoken, libel is written.

 

[TennesseeFan07]

That's very unprofessional by whoever wrote that.