1,000 Words: Saying goodbye to my favorite mentor

Professor Jake Highton reads poetry on the day he retired from the Reynolds School of Journalism in 2011.Deidre Pike

(Photo: David Calvert/Reynolds School of Journalism)Reno Gazette-Journal columnist Chris Murray has been known to be a bit wordy, so we're giving him 1,000 words (no more than that) to share his thoughts from the week that was in the world of sports.

* THEY WERE MORE SCREAMS than whispers as you climbed the ladder at the University of Nevada’s Reynolds School of Journalism. “Don’t take a class from Jake Highton,” the upperclassmen would tell the underclassmen in hushed tones but with a deadly seriousness. You see, Jake Highton did not give out As – or it seemed that way, at…