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Old Mon Jun 26, 2006, 06:28pm
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Wacko parent prize

The last section in this article is pretty hilarious.

http://www.startribune.com/122/story/512522.html
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Old Mon Jun 26, 2006, 06:34pm
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Classic, absolutely classic.
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Old Mon Jun 26, 2006, 06:53pm
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(These are verbatim excerpts, grammatical errors and all, from an e-mail.)

"I trained my kids how to play DI type ball and then enjoyed watching them overachieve and get nothing from you clowns in return! ... Get over your selves and do a better job. Its bad enough we have refs taking away scholarship kids every time they blow a whistle, raise their arm, or throw a flag. ... On the day either my son or daughter signs a professional contract I promise you I will buy billboards in this town and you all will be named and I will go very public and very media savvy on all good folks who so influence the grass roots of sports ... I'm writing a book about how parents like me whose kids are superior athletes but wound up at the wrong school athletically; can get their from here!"

Speaking for all us clowns -- even those of us with striped feet -- let me say this: That e-mail will be hard to beat.

But there's always next year.
Sounds like the FNG guy posting in the mavs/heat thread.
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Old Tue Jun 27, 2006, 01:20am
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I liked this part the best (it's just so.... female!) :

Best formal event

The girls' basketball all-star games at the University of St. Thomas were held on the same Saturday as the Hopkins High School prom. So Hopkins seniors Jillian Schurle and Abby Green arrived at the gym in their prom dresses, changed into uniform and played basketball while their tuxedo-clad dates watched from the stands. They changed back into their gowns after the game to return to the prom festivities.
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Old Tue Jun 27, 2006, 08:36pm
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The camp I worked this weekend had a team of incoming DI freshman (from the host school). It was pretty instructional for some of the regular HS players to match up with them (it was a team camp). I'd love to take a team like that to a future stars tournament or something of the sort to give parents a look at what it really takes to make it at that level.
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