{"id":78060,"date":"2026-08-29T19:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T00:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/william-jewell-running-back-micahjo-barnett-dies-after-medical-emergency-during-game\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T19:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T00:55:28","slug":"william-jewell-running-back-micahjo-barnett-dies-after-medical-emergency-during-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/william-jewell-running-back-micahjo-barnett-dies-after-medical-emergency-during-game\/","title":{"rendered":"William Jewell running back MicahJo Barnett dies after medical emergency during game"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Junior taken to hospital after first-quarter emergency<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Division II season opener suspended and later canceled<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>School plans vigil for Barnett and his family<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>William Jewell College running back MicahJo Barnett had a medical emergency on the sideline during \u2060the school\u2019s season opener on Saturday. and the school later announced his death.<\/p>\n<p>Barnett, a junior, \u2060reportedly experienced seizure-like \u2060symptoms during \u200bthe first quarter of the Division II contest against Fort Lewis College. The game was played \u2060on William Jewell\u2019s campus in Liberty, Missouri, about 20 miles northeast of Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/29\/division-ii-running-back-dies-after-experiencing-medical-emergency-on-the-sideline-shortly-after-scoring-touchdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Junior taken to hospital after first-quarter emergency Division II season opener suspended and later canceled School plans vigil for Barnett and his family William Jewell College running back MicahJo Barnett had a medical emergency on the sideline during \u2060the school\u2019s season opener on Saturday. and the school later announced his death. Barnett, a junior, \u2060reportedly &#8230; <a title=\"William Jewell running back MicahJo Barnett dies after medical emergency during game\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/william-jewell-running-back-micahjo-barnett-dies-after-medical-emergency-during-game\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about William Jewell running back MicahJo Barnett dies after medical emergency during game\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}