What do high school football parents, players and administrators think of gay people? Exhibit No. 692 comes to us from Gateway High School in Aurora, Colo. It seems two players got into a little shoving match at practice recently. As penance, the coach made them run a lap holding hands. Cute, right? They weren’t getting [...]
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Boston Red Sox endorse hazing
There are few stories that come across my inbox that make me more mad than hazing stories. The latest comes from yet another sports franchise that “prides” itself on its hazing tradition: The Boston Red Sox. In the latest round, last Thursday they forced the rookies to dress up like characters from The Wizard Of [...]
A lesbian coach, her firing and sheep feces
A Maine jury will have to decide whether a high school softball coach was fired because she is a lesbian or because she made her team walk through sheep feces as part of a hazing ritual. A Maine court said this week that a jury would have to decide why Kelly Jo Cookson was not [...]
Heads to roll over volleyball hazing?
At Taft High School in Woodland Hills, Calif., near Los Angeles, heads may roll over an alleged hazing incident that reportedly featured the volleyball team holding down a freshman and sodomizing him with a sex toy. Six school staff members are being accused of knowing about the incident and not reporting it, so they have [...]