Archive for the ‘sportsmanship’ Category

An Open Letter ….

…. to the man sitting behind me at my son’s basketball game last night:
Dear Sir,
Shut the hell up.
If you want to coach, and yell at the players, then might I recommend you actually BE a coach.  I can guarantee you that rec leagues and youth leagues all over are constantly in need of parent coaches.  [...]


Oh. My bad.

So, Kellen joined a basketball team two weeks ago … a little late in the season, but he’s filling in for a kid who quit, and having fun, and its a neat little team with nice boys, so that’s all good and fine.   (Don’t worry, there will be plenty of shitty, blurry basketball pictures for [...]


Poor Sports

Amended to add: It’s 3am, and I actually woke up, worried that someone might read this (heaven forbid, someone local who knows a kid on the other team) and think I was bashing the other players or their parents. That wasn’t my intention, although I think it might have come across that way. They are [...]