Okay, this has gone beyond ridiculous. If you haven’t been following the 190-comment-long Nancy Nibarger thread, you can get an update from the San Francisco Chronicle’s latest write-up. As you may remember, parents at Castro Valley High School in California called three different times for the dismissal of girls’ basketball coach Nibarger, who they claim […]
More bad-behaving parents at youth sports. This time, they’ve brought the violence down to the Pee Wee level. Date: this week. Location: Corpus Christi, Texas. The parents didn’t start the fire this time - it appears a coach did - but a few of them certainly didn’t mind getting in a few kicks for good […]
Here’s another light story for y’all. It’s a refreshing break from our usual murder and mayhem, and yet still a sad portrait of parents shitting all over their kids. That’s right - it’s another sports story! This one, from Brevard County, Florida, concerns the rookie team of the Port St. John Rockets, who are forced […]
When someone refers to a story as “an upscale version of Parents Behaving Badly”, you know you’ve arrived. Charlene Prince Birkeland of Crazed Parent rants today about a group of Castro Valley, California parents who are calling for the head of CV High School’s girls basketball coach, Nancy Nibarger. The moms and dads have a […]
This Associated Press piece about parents who go insane during their children’s sports games contains some real doozies. One of them is the story of Cory Petero, a 36-year-old Pop Warner football assistant coach who decided it was a great idea to shove one of the opposing team’s 13-year-old players to the ground. Petero’s winning […]
From the Sports Desk: further proof that many moms and dads out there need to stop living vicariously through their kids. A recent Minnesota study paints a disturbing picture of parents’ behavior at their kids’ sporting events. 73% of parents surveyed said they’d witnessed a verbal altercation, and one in seven indicate that they’ve witnessed […]
There are a lot of differences between American and English football (the English version: much more “foot”, much less steroids), but there’s one sad similarity - the behavior of a few bad fans/parents. The British news site Biggleswade Today (no, I did not pull that name from a Monty Python skit) reports that some locals […]
From the Sports Desk comes this heartwarming story, in the tradition of “Hoosiers”, “Remember The Titans”, “The Mighty Ducks”, and all those wonderful movies about inspiring coaches who teach their athletes that life is about more than winning…ah, who am I kidding. Three Pennsylvania football coaches were arrested for their conduct during a game. All […]
The weekend is upon us, and for many parents out there, it’s time to be athletic supporters. Some parents in Raleigh, North Carolina do merit comparison to smelly jock straps, thanks to their behavior at local youth football games. Unsportsmanlike behavior by rabid Raleigh football moms and dads reached English Soccer Match levels last year. […]
I don’t blame these parents to going for bat for their kid. Okay, it’s a little questionable insisting that a 151-lb. 11-year-old be allowed to play flag football in clear violation of the weight limit. Still, given that the limit is 150 lbs., it’s not unreasonable for Kyle St. Peter’s father, Kevin St. Peter, to […]
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