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espola

This could at least get a mention there if we had one --

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Coronado School Board Fires Basketball Coach Following Tortilla-Throwing Incident

The Coronado Unified School District Governing Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to fire Coronado High School boys' basketball coach JD Laaperi, three days after fans threw tortillas at the opposing team following a championship game.
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Coronado School Board has acted; CIF San Diego Section has not yet decided if they will have any action.
 
Several news reports are confused about the details. The preceding game between the two teams was the San Diego Section Division II Final Playoff game that was played June 11 at St Augustine High School. In the SDS Bracket, Orange Glen had been seeded #1 and Coronado #2. Coronado won that game 51-48.

The tortilla incident occurred after the State SoCal Regional CIF Division 4-A Bracket Final, wherein Coronado had been seeded #1 and Orange Glen #2. That game occurred June 19, and Coronado won on their home court 60-57.
 
espola said:
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CIF Vacates Coronado High's Championship Title Over Postgame Tortilla-Throwing Incident

The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) has vacated Coronado High School’s championship title following its investigation of the postgame tortilla-throwing incident that largely overshadowed the matchup with Orange Glen High School of Escondido two weekends ago.
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I was not at all surprised when a Coronado HS team displayed racist behavior. Racist comments by the soccer team were common.
 
outside! said:
Of course the racists are defending the racists.
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I never really thought of Coronado as a hotbed of racism, but perhaps my opinion was colored by the fact that my biggest exposure to things Coronadan was when my kids played Coronado teams in club soccer. I should have realized that most of those kids didn't actually live in Coronado.
 
espola said:
I never really thought of Coronado as a hotbed of racism, but perhaps my opinion was colored by the fact that my biggest exposure to things Coronadan was when my kids played Coronado teams in club soccer. I should have realized that most of those kids didn't actually live in Coronado.
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There were multiple games were Coronado HS boys teams said racist things to my son's team.
 
Another other sport --

At UC Davis, the soccer and baseball fields are side-by-side and share some of the facilities, such as ticket booth, snack bar, restrooms, etc. If you stand at the top of the soccer stands and turn around, you would be looking down from the top of the third-base-side side baseball stands. When there are Spring soccer games, they won't start the soccer game as long as a baseball game is being played, supposedly due to the possibility of foul balls landing in the middle of a soccer game, So I have actually watched a few innings of UC Davis baseball while waiting.

And now this --

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California University Suspends Entire Varsity Baseball Team Over Misconduct Allegations

A Northern California state university has suspended its entire varsity baseball team and put the team’s coaching staff on administrative leave while it investigates unspecified allegations of misconduct.
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Enough bad news about other sports. Here is some cheerful stuff.

My sister and her husband are teachers in the Richford, Vt school system. In those little rural towns, the common behavior (driven even more so now by state education funding laws) is for several small towns to keep their own little elementary schools but send all the kids to a common Jr-Sr High School. Such is the case at Richford, where students from Richford, Montgomery, Enosburg, and Berkshire all study at Richford High. About a decade ago, one young farm girl (milking and cleaning up after 30-40 cows every day) from Montgomery named Elinor Purrier (she prefers Elle, pronounced like Ellie) tried out for the girls' soccer team. One of the elements of the tryout was a fitness test run, 800 meters, two laps around the track. Elle scorched the whole field, including the Senior boys, by about half a lap. "Maybe you should try out for the cross-country team". She ended up winning the state cross-country meet three times as well as several of the state meet distance events multiple times.

She got relief from the farm chores by going away to college at the University of New Hampshire, where she was a triple-sport All-American (cross-country, indoor track, outdoor track) and ended up the most-decorated athlete in UNH sports history. Then she got a job as a member of the New Balance running team (a nice little New England company) but didn't really give up farm life. She married her high school sweetheart and moved onto his family's dairy farm. (His engagement present to her was a heifer).

The one-year delay in the Tokyo Olympics was perfect for her maturation as a runner, so she won the top spot in the womens' 1500 meters for the USA. You can't take the farm out of the girl -- in her post-race interview, while she was still getting her breath back, she answered a question with "I'm just so fucking excited" (now bleeped out of all rerun of the video).

The guy in the orange shirt is her husband --

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=885858811998771
 
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