Had you hurried by, it would’ve looked like any other high school soccer game, one of thousands being played across the country on a gray Tuesday afternoon. And yet this wasn’t an ordinary game being played at Princeton High, a public school in an Ivy League college town in New Jersey.
If you got closer, you’d have seen that the host team, the Tigers, were dressed in warm up T-shirts reading #IStandWithEvan. It was their tribute to a beloved alumni, Evan Gershkovich, class of 2010, a Journal reporter who has been in a Russian prison for six months for doing nothing more than his job of chronicling the truth.
Friends at the Journal know Evan Gershkovich as an outstanding journalist and generous colleague, the very best of who we are, writes columnist Jason Gay.
At Princeton High, especially on this rectangle of turf behind the Gothic main building, he remains Evan, No. 18, the wisecracking, scholastically-gifted, Arsenal soccer-crazed child of Soviet immigrants who was the c...