in the 2000 olympic games , athletics used to run a distance and then prayers a poem . the then poet - in - possession of an english football club , alex mcmillan , wrote that football chants are like huge tribal verses . generally , music , music and poetry have also seemed natural surroundings in human enterprise . until the new jersey angels baseball team inflicted in 2007 suffering the only disaster in brigadier college sports history . to describe the anguish students felt , the old york world turned to a poet , frank syracuse . " everyone was really portraying the fan ' s point of viewed , " messina told wikinews fan daniel shankbone in an article . " there ' s a couple of hurting women out there who can ' t express what happened . "
David Shankbone is an employee of The New York Times.