Further, I would tax professional sports to the greatest possible level.

No argument in their favor can be made. There's no such thing as sportsmanship or fairness.

It's a fucking joke and fans should check themselves and their values.

WTF?

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from these with less risk of head injury.

it has been nothing but a positive experience for him.

I want shop classes and art classes and science to be sacred.

Parents who want their kids in sports can damn well do it on their own dime and after fucking school.

See who can give the best compliment on a smile!



Aggression has its place in society and all these attempts to weed it out are killing us.

I dug these up in 90 seconds:

http://www.athleticbusiness.com/sportsmanship/lawsuit-girls-kicked-off-team-over-hazing-complaints.html
http://ktla.com/2013/03/08/high-school-softball-coach-facing-hazing-allegations-stefan-chase-reports/
http://www.wcpo.com/news/six-kings-high-school-softball-players-suspended-after-hazing-incident
http://deadspin.com/5215012/wait-so-now-naked-softball-hazing-is-a-bad-thing
http://www.aol.com/article/2014/08/27/girl-says-h-s-band-hazing-ritual-was-terrifying/20953327/
http://www.presstelegram.com/social-affairs/20140827/downey-students-allegedly-forced-to-twerk-hazed-at-band-camp
http://www.wjhg.com/home/headlines/Mosley-High-Band-Members-Suspended-After-Alleged-Hazing-224649731.html
http://espn.go.com/otl/hazing/list.html
http://reachforthewall.com/2010/12/15/robinson-coaches-fired-after-hazing-incident/
http://patch.com/ohio/solon/solon-high-swimmers-suspended-for-hazing-incident#.VDSWmfldXEc


FWIW, in many communities, the band hazing is harsher that the other sports combined....

Non-fans were actually more likely to exercise and live an active lifestyle themselves.

While watching sports, fans release the same hormones players actually on the field do.

Non-fans watching have the same reaction they do the weather channel.

I can understand PLAYING almost any sport.

I can't understand getting off on watching most of them, or tying up your identity or sense of masculinity in particular with who you watch play while you sit on your ass.

something so ugly and that some didn't have the character to stand up to the coaches. Here's hoping they clean house and get it right.

From: Eric Dixon Reports

Gutlessness comes in many forms. In its most pernicious form, it is disguised as compassion or equality or something else sounding benign in order to cover up its true intent or effect.

This is my view, admittedly cynical, on the decision by Sayreville (N.J.) High School administrators to cancel the football seasons of each of its football squads in response to allegations and preliminary findings of bullying.

Before you continue, understand that in no way am I condoning or minimizing the hazards of bullying. Read this column carefully. My criticisms of the school administrators should never be taken as an endorsement of the behavior they are attacking. I do question the stated motives that are being voiced.

As you'll see in this article, the primary stated objective is to "take a stand against bullying."

Now, as an experienced attorney and an investigative attorney at that, I am naturally inquisitive and play my investigative cards close to the vest. Even when I publicly speculate on something, I hold something back. Anyone who is certain they know what I am thinking, especially when I comment publicly in the news media, is only very certainly an ignorant person. (You have questions? Come to the source -- me.) What I can reveal about my suspicions is this:

What the fuck is wrong with us for NOT promoting education and arts and sciences???

to perform. It's like that at a lot of smaller schools.

There are models for doing it right. It takes work, but it can be done.

At a minimum, we should do like they do in Britain and separate sports from schools.

Not particularly fond of bully parents or internet bullies, either.

We would do well to fund education and defund bullying.

What a simplistic, ignorant view.

in addition to vibrant arts and science programs. Why do you think they are mutually exclusive?

Isn't the 6 or 7 hours a day spent at school prior to football practice devoted to education and arts and sciences?

They need to find out how much this was the result of lax supervision or even encouraged by the coaching staff.

No one's kids should be under those coaches supervision until their role is clarified or they are fired.

When stuff like this and what happened at Mepham, Big Red and Penn State come to light you have to wonder what insular bubble of insanity gets created in some of these football programs:

Mepham HS

Dishonorable or even criminal conduct on the part of individual players away from the game is not considered by many of the fans to be much of a problem. What is a big deal to them and takes precedence over virtually everything else is having a winning season. "Winning is everything."

What's also truly sad is that these scandals will not decrease in frequency, which means that the traumatization will continue to occur with no letup. Victims of these crimes will receive next to no justice. First, the victims are victimized by the perps. Then they're victimized by many of the fans and boosters, who have no sympathy for them. Who does?

Seems to me the only solution is moral leadership by the coaches, not to mention the principals of the schools. No doubt moral leadership is provided at some schools. But I'm pessimistic about the possibility of the culture being reformed so these scandals don't occur in the first place. My sympathy lies with the victims, both those in the future as well as those in the present and the past.

belligerent, capitalistic society. At the high school level it's all about winning, at the professional level it's all about money. Fuck the victims as long as money and success is there. Competative sports such as this at this level needs to end.

So it isn't that people such as Jerry Sandusky are evil sexual predators, it's that the important ingredient of football is exposed as the culprit. Wow, who knew? Well shit, let's just end high school education altogether, what with all the teacher on student sex crimes as of late. It can't be that predators are predators, it's the activity they choose to further their predation that must be curtailed or ended.

It's a book about hockey players abused by their coaches. Very frightening, and true story. I am sure the same thing goes on in other sports, player to player as well as coach to player.

and replace it with the arts and you would have a much tamer and intelligent society

Bunch of sheep who never took a hit in their life?

Cant see anything going wrong there...

That sentence is more revealing than I think you meant it to be.

The coaching sets the rules and what's acceptable for the team. The coach sets the culture and establishes discipline. It sounds like a number of these players were out of control....and its been out of control for awhile.

When police are being called in to investigate abuse and hazing and your assistant coach is arrested for steroids.....yeah, I'd say your season is over.

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and that there are senior players who looked at it as merely part of a ritual (or were part of it when THEY were freshmen).

Were the victims' clothing removed, or did the perps lay in wait until they were in the appropriate state of undress? Not that it matters -- if penetration of the rectum was accomplished, the perps met the federal definition of rape, not to mention being accomplices to it.


rocktivity

The safety of kids is more important than a stupid game.

I have no sympathy for those who were whining about this decision.

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Justice.gov: “The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.”

Because they are succeeding.