Ohio State vigil honors football player found dead

Ohio State vigil honors football player found dead APWF This photo taken on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, and provided by Ohio State university shows college football player Kosta Karageorge in Columbus, Ohio. The mother of a missing Ohio State football player has told police he texted her about his prior concussions the morning he disappeared. A missing-person report filed with Columbus police Wednesday evening, Nov. 26, 2014, says Karageorge told his mother he was sorry if he was an embarrassment but concussions had his head messed up. The 6-foot-5 senior missed practice Wednesday and Thursday and has not been heard from. (AP Photo/Ohio State University, Jay LaPrete) December 1, 2014, 6:39 am Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Ohio State football players and wrestlers are among those who attended a campus vigil for a teammate found dead in a trash bin with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. The vigil was held after 22-year-old Kosta Karageorge’s body was found Sunday. He had disappeared four days earlier after sending his parents a text message that said concussions had messed up his head. Karageorge had been a Buckeyes wrestler for three years and joined the football team as a walk-on this season, playing in one game. The football team’s doctor has said he couldn’t comment on the medical care of student-athletes. Wrestling coach Tom Ryan tells The Columbus Dispatch that Karageorge had no documented concussions as a wrestler. Ryan says some teammates are wondering if they could’ve intervened to help Karageorge. …

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