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Joanne C. Gerstner

United States

Freelance Sports Journalist at Freelance

Writer at Open Court

💻 Author, speaker, sports journalist, word architect 👩🏼‍🏫 prof @michstsportsJRN 👩‍🎓@medillschool, @oaklandu https://t.co/LbgdVgUtEg Rage and grace

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  • Yes, I am alive! Time to get rolling again in all the trouble in sports and life

    2 weeks ago | joannecgerstner.substack.com | Joanne C. Gerstner

    Happy end of school flowers for me, thanks to some nice students. Open Court is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Hi kids. Yes, I am alive. No, I have not flaked out on the Open Court Fam. Honesty time, April kicked my butt.

  • Why a photo of Pope Francis always makes me smile

    1 month ago | joannecgerstner.substack.com | Joanne C. Gerstner

    Open Court is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I have a metal bulletin board in my office at Michigan State, containing things that make me smile.

  • Sometimes the best way to be sad is to giggle, because remembering the past is all that's left

    1 month ago | joannecgerstner.substack.com | Joanne C. Gerstner

    Open Court is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. There are idiotic inside jokes that you share with family and friends, totally rooted in a “you had to be there” vibe. If you weren’t there, even if we tried to explain it to you, it would never make you giggle in the same way. I shared a few of those kind of jokes with sports journalist/columnist/editor Bryce Miller, who last worked for the San Diego Union-Tribune.

  • A conversation 4 months in the making: "idiot" versus Open Court reader

    2 months ago | joannecgerstner.substack.com | Joanne C. Gerstner

    Open Court is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. (photo of blue skies, taken by me, because…vibes.)I’ve become pretty numb to most caustic comments reacting to my work as a journalist. Most comments are amazing, humbling and too kind. (THANK YOU!!) But the out-of-pocket fools are something else.

  • The need to remember: Michigan State's shooting two years later and continuing struggle in the aftermath

    Feb 13, 2025 | joannecgerstner.substack.com | Joanne C. Gerstner

    Open Court is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Here’s the truth about being at a place that is recovering from school shooting: time is running away from what happened here at Michigan State on Feb. 13, 2023. Two classes of undergrad students have graduated, leaving today’s juniors and seniors as the keepers of the first-person canon. The rest of the students hear about what happened on Feb.

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Joanne C. Gerstner
Joanne C. Gerstner @joannecgerstner
18 May 25

RT @caitlinrease: SPURS ARE HIRING💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼 Come join our team as the Manger of Content! https://t.co/DQtBVNHAzE ***based in San Antonio, T…

Joanne C. Gerstner
Joanne C. Gerstner @joannecgerstner
8 May 25

RT @MarchMadnessMBB: Villanova officially has representation in Vatican City 🇻🇦⛪️ https://t.co/w9VAuAPMBS

Joanne C. Gerstner
Joanne C. Gerstner @joannecgerstner
8 May 25

Villanova now locked at a No. 1 seed in the Papal basketball tourney. #PopeLeoXIV