Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

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Nice guys can mess up, but must pay up

I’d expected someone bigger, taller, nastier. This messy-haired, shy kid at the postgame news conference last September couldn’t be Braden Jones. This is the guy who ended up in the neuro-intensive care unit of a Nashville hospital after an altercation with a 6-foot-3, 235-pound meat-head named Doug Wolford? No way.

He came from a nice family. He wanted to be a doctor, just like his dad. He spoke softly, deliberately, thinking about what he wanted to say instead of spewing out athlete clichՀ

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