Whicker Defends Controversial Column

Mark Whicker is in hot water for a recent column that makes reference to Jaycee Dugard’s 18-year-long abduction and sexual assault for comic effect. Sports writer Michael David Smith emailed Whicker to ask “if he came up with the idea for the column or if an editor assigned it, whether he thinks his words run the risk of trivializing the kidnapping of Dugard, and what he thinks about the response.”