{"id":23230,"date":"2014-08-22T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T09:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=23230"},"modified":"2014-08-22T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T09:07:00","slug":"kent-state-players-to-wear-54-on-helmets-to-honour-deceased-teammate-bitsko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/22\/kent-state-players-to-wear-54-on-helmets-to-honour-deceased-teammate-bitsko\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent State players to wear \u201854\u2019 on helmets to honour deceased teammate Bitsko"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KSUAthletics\">@KSUAthletics<\/a>, here is the helmet Kent State will wear to honor Jason Bitsko this season. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/sPrQCK4iIR\">http:\/\/t.co\/sPrQCK4iIR<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/ljjhhU8K37\">pic.twitter.com\/ljjhhU8K37<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr. Saturday (@YahooDrSaturday) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YahooDrSaturday\/statuses\/502628370178637826\">August 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>KENT, Ohio\u2014Kent State coach Paul Haynes says players grieving the death of centre Jason Bitsko plan to honour him by wearing his number 54 on their helmets this season.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Bitsko was found unresponsive in the bedroom of his off-campus apartment on Wednesday morning. The school says police believe he passed away from an undetermined medical issue.<\/p>\n<p>Haynes said Thursday that Bitsko\u2019s death is a tragic loss and that his players will get through the situation together.<\/p>\n<p>Bitsko was in his fourth year with the Golden Flashes and was slated to start at centre. He started all 12 games in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The school has said it is providing counselling services and support to student-athletes and athletic staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via @KSUAthletics, here is the helmet Kent State will wear to honor Jason Bitsko this season. http:\/\/t.co\/sPrQCK4iIR pic.twitter.com\/ljjhhU8K37 \u2014 Dr. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":23231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}