Archive for February, 2008

Scholastic Sports can they be saved?

// February 13th, 2008 // No Comments » // featured, Sports

“Parents brawl at 9-year old’s soccer game”, Riverdale, NY, December 2, 2007

“Father, Uncle Charged with Beating Coach”, Bellmore, NY, October 18, 2007

“Man Slugs Football Coach over Playing Time”, Colts Neck, NJ, October 2, 2007

“Parent attacks two softball coaches”, Phillipsburg, NJ, May 4, 2006.

“Parent attacks coach after daughter cut from team”, Shaker Heights, OH, November 10, 2005.

“Father charged with threatening life of coach over son’s playing time”. Mills, MA, May 7, 2005.

“Father in custody after football coach/athletic director shot over sports dispute”, Canton, TX, April 8, 2005.

Real headlines … real sad.

What’s happening in high school and youth sports is frightening. It’s not so much the horrific stories of parents attacking coaches. That’s extreme and rare, thankfully.

It’s the parental interference that’s going on every day with virtually every team in the country. It’s enough to make all coaches ask: Is it worth it?

More and more, the answer is no. (more…)

How did we end up here?

// February 13th, 2008 // No Comments » // General Announcement

The short answer to this, is that my previous provider of webspace (iPowerweb), royally screwed me over by deleting files from two separate web sites that I maintain. They offered little support, and over the past two years their uptime was less then optimal.

So I created this domain, and started a new relationship with hostgator.com. They’ve been wonderful hosts so far. They helped move my files, even fixing some sql errors attributed by my former host and it’s been a short but very pleasant relationship.

I’m going to try and post here frequently, about whatever’s on my mind, whether it deals with school, my life, diabetes, whatever. I will make a lot of grammatical errors, probably some misspellings as well, and I love run-on sentences that are filled with commas and ellipses. You can accept that, or not, just don’t bother filling my comment area announcing my inefficiencies to that end, for I really don’t care.