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(@holy-cow)
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Why NOT to report stories too quickly

Read the rest of the story here - real story about media jumping the gun.

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2012/07/12/wis-coach-arrested-after-scuffle-wont-be-charged/?intcmp=obinsite

 
Posted : July 29, 2012 10:02 am
(@holy-cow)
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Good catch

I'm happy to hear this is just another case of a whiny teenager trying to destroy an adult instead of the adult having actually done something bad.

I found the link to the story at the bottom of another link listed today. It makes you wonder why this story form July 10 was still being promoted when the clarification came out on July 12; more than two weeks ago.

 
Posted : July 29, 2012 12:10 pm
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Well, here is one of the worst incidents that I have heard of and it happened about 25 mile east of here.
It was widely reported here and I do not know if it made national newes.
This is the link to the final sentencing of the Ahole along with a video taken by a parent.
Strange that it wa a between the Yankees and the Red Soxs.

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2010/08/slidell_youth_baseball_coach_w.html

As a Youth coach and administrator, I have seen some veryvbad coaching of youths and abysmal sports parents.We will weed them out pretty quick.
This past spring, I had an 8 yr old team play in a regional soccer tournament organized by a private entity.
In our 3rd place medal game, the opposing coach was a complete Ahole. It was strange because he was a 'professional' coach outof New Orleans with a big name soccer club. I think he was a Jamaican out of London who was an ex-pro player. He treated his kids like dirt. He must have been thrown out of England. He was a PIA all day, I was told. It was the first time that I refused to shake an opposing coaches hand after the game. That is how bad he was. Since it was a tourney that was not under the autjhority of the state soccer association, there was nothing that I could do. If he ever shows up at a state sanctioned tourney, I will do some thing.

We won 5-2 😉

 
Posted : July 29, 2012 1:34 pm
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"We won 5-2"

That was a good start.B-)

 
Posted : July 30, 2012 9:04 am
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Good catch

Bad news travels fast. Good news travels slowly. More so when it fits your agenday.

 
Posted : July 30, 2012 10:31 am