Star Sportswriter Apparently Sober in Video

BY DAVID MARTIN

One rode with Reynolds, one vlogs for the Star.

Holly Lawton, The Kansas City Star’s sports editor, says reporter Mike DeArmond was not intoxicated when he filmed a strange video blog after the University of Kansas men’s basketball team won the national championship.

In the segment, DeArmond leers into the camera and sounds a little like a drunk person trying to mask his condition by speaking slowly. A phone number for Alcoholics Anonymous appears on screen at the end of a doctored version of the clip recently posed on YouTube.