Florida A&M drum major Robert Champion was beaten and killed in a band hazing ritual aboard a team bus in November. The family has acknowledged he was gay, and some students claim the excessive beating was because Champion was gay. According to CNN: One band member, who spoke on condition of anonymity, previously explained that [...]
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‘Ookie cookie’ hazing incident grips Andover Massachusetts high school basketball
The Andover High School basketball team has been torn apart by a hazing incident that has left two students expelled from the school and seven more suspended. The incident took place at Hoop Mountain basketball camp last summer and involved a “game” called “ookie cookie” or “wet biscuit.” From the North Andover Eagle-Tribune: Hoop Mountain [...]
Boise State player in rape hazing allegations
Three college football players, including a freshman walk-on at Boise State, have been charged with sexual assault in conjunction with hazing allegations from their high school senior year on the boys basketball team. From Reuters: Police say the five athletes forcibly penetrated fellow members of the high school basketball team and battered and restrained the [...]
Is holding hands ‘hazing’ in football?
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 [...]
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 [...]