Commentary: ‘This microphone is powerful right now.'

 
By JIM LITKE, Associated Press | Published: December 20, 2012   

The game was over, and the postgame interview appeared to be, too, when Winthrop coach Pat Kelsey suddenly decided otherwise.

By then, the sting of his team's 65-55 loss to Ohio State was already an afterthought. Instead, like a lot of us, he was still heartbroken about the school shootings in Newtown, determined to say something about them.

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“The last thing I want to say,” Kelsey began, as reporters scrambled to turn their tape recorders back on Tuesday night, “is I'm really, really lucky, because I'm going to get on an...
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