Gonzaga University suspended Stockton’s season tickets because he will not wear a mask to games. Next to Bing Crosby, Stockton is the most famous graduate of the Jesuit school in Spokane, Washington. Here is ESPN:
Gonzaga has suspended John Stockton’s men’s basketball season tickets because of the Hall of Famer’s failure to follow the school’s mask mandate, he confirmed to The Spokesman-Review.
Stockton, whose No. 12 jersey is retired by the school, told the newspaper that he was informed of the decision by Gonzaga athletic director Chris Standiford. Stockton described the conversation as “congenial” but “not pleasant.”
“Basically, it came down to, they were asking me to wear a mask to the games and being a public figure, someone a little bit more visible, I stuck out in the crowd a little bit,” Stockton told the newspaper. “And therefore they received complaints and felt like from whatever the higher-ups — those weren’t discussed, but from whatever it was higher up — they were going to have to either ask me to wear a mask or they were going to suspend my tickets.”
Stockton made public his views on the COVID-19 vaccine in a film that was released in June.
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Here is CNN:
Stockton is Roman Catholic. Two of Stockton’s sons played college basketball at evangelical Christian colleges–Whitworth and Seattle Pacific.
Stockton is not the only former Utah Jazz superstar to get confused about the science behind disease. Remember Karl Malone’s remarks about Magic Johnson?
I live in Spokane surrounded by Gonzaga hoops fans. Most of us consider him an embarrassment to our city.
Also as an alum I don’t consider Whitworth an evangelical college. It’s a Christian Liberal arts university.
Fair enough, Barbara. I realize that there are some schools in the CCCU that do not identity as “evangelical.”