Watch as morons destroy sport and teach children how not to behave.

EXAMPLE 1.

From the stupid and damp pages of the Lancaster, PA Ignorancer-Urinal: Boy vs. Girl

When Lancaster Catholic sophomore Alex Veronis takes the court for his first-round match in the PIAA State tennis tournament this morning at Hershey Racquet Club, he will be stepping into the record books.

Veronis, who won the Lancaster-Lebanon League Boys' AA singles title and placed third in the District Three tournament, will not be facing someone he is used to seeing on the other side of the court.

He will be playing a girl this time, but not just any girl. He will be playing Annie Houghton, a junior from Quaker Valley High School, who was the 2004 PIAA state girls' singles champion.

Houghton won the District Seven boys' singles championship in April and is the seventh-ranked girls' tennis player in the USTA's Middle States 18-under rankings.

Houghton could not participate in the girls' tennis season in the fall because of a knee injury. However, she petitioned to play in the boys' spring season and was granted permission.

This is where things begin to get a little dicey. While some schools allow girls to play boys' sports, others do not.

School districts in Pennsylvania cannot ban cross-gender participation because of a 1975 Commonwealth Court decision that permits athletes of both genders to participate in high school sports that are offered for one sex but not the other.

This ruling allowed Houghton to petition the PIAA and participate in the spring tennis season because of her injured knee in the girls' tennis season in the fall. It also allows girls to participate in wrestling.

The L-L League has no policy on this issue, but it recommends against gender-crossing in sports.

"The L-L has no policy in place, but we recommend to our schools that boys should not be allowed to play on girls' teams and vice versa," said L-L official Dick Balderston.

"We have boys and girls on the same team in bowling, but that is it."

Two schools in Eastern Pennsylvania have adopted policies on boys and girls playing on each others' teams. Big Spring School District and Wyomissing Area School District adopted policies that prohibit boys from playing girls' sports. Big Spring's policy also prevents girls from playing boys' sports.

In the wake of Houghton's successful petition, other schools are beginning to think about adopting their own policy. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that 22 athletic directors from northern Pittsburgh met recently to discuss the boy-girl sports issue.

Rich Relich, athletic director at West Mifflin and president of the athletic directors' association, told the Post-Gazette "What's going to happen someday when you get a strapping 6-3 or 6-4 boy who can really bring it underhand in fast-pitch softball and he helps that girls' team run the table? You know it's going to happen at some point. We just want to get some dialogue going. That's the key, because right now it seems no one wants to touch this issue."

Manheim Township tennis coach Doug Pennington pointed out that his No. 1 player, L-L League AAA singles champion Jim Stoner, was injured last season and couldn't play. Stoner and teammate Tyler Van Roden are playing doubles at the PIAA championships this weekend.

"Using that logic (allowing cross-gender participation), he should have been able to play in the girls' season,'' Pennington said. "But that wouldn't have been fair."

The L-L League said as long as its schools don't have policies pertaining to boys playing girls who play for other schools in other districts, they don't need to do anything."

If Lancaster Catholic would have a problem with a boy playing a girl, then we would become involved, but if they don't, then things are OK," said Balderston.

Houghton, who has been cruising past all male opponents this season, won the PIAA girls' singles tournament when she was a sophomore.

"Alex is probably the underdog in this match," said George Veronis, Alex's father and Lancaster Catholic coach.

The elder Veronis is not doing either child any favors. One would think he would use better judgement when it comes to his own son.

Veronis, who is 42-1 in his high school career, has been playing tennis for just 2½ years.

"He hasn't been saying a lot, and he is a little nervous, but he has this underlying confidence,'' said his father. "He will be fine."

Alex said he is ready to go but nervous about the ramifications of the match.

"I am excited to play, but it is a lose-lose situation for me. If I win, then people will say I am supposed to beat her because she is a girl. If I lose, that isn't good either because then I lost to a girl.''

Welcome to the real world, Alex. Penis-Americans are constant targets for the ignorant.

"I am just going to try and treat it like any other match," said Alex. "I've been playing other ranked Middle States girls in the area to get prepared for the match."

Of course, this isn't like any other match.

The PIAA added a girls' tournament in 1973 when Hempfield's Claudia Smith Holtry took home the first girls' title.

Thirty-three years later, Alex Veronis will look to stop the first girl seeking to put her name in the record books.

It would be too much to expect Alex to refuse to participate in this nonsense. He just wants to play.

The adult pinheads involved? That's another story.

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UPDATE

Alex Veronis won his match against the little girl who is merely a tool of the Unisex Nazis. He then lost in the next round of the state tournament.



EXAMPLE 2.

WHO-TV: Connecticut threatens high school coaches with suspension for football routs

Connecticut officials say they've had it with high school football coaches who run up the score.

The state's Interscholastic Athletic Conference, which oversees school sports, says high school coaches will be suspended if their teams win by more than 50 points.

A spokesman for the conference says "there's no need" for any coach to allow players to stomp on its rivals that way.

While school officials deny aiming at any one person, some are calling it the "Jack Cochran rule" after a coach in New London, Connecticut, who logged four wins with scores of more than 50 points last year.

Ask any athlete. There is no shame in losing big. There is much shame in being treated like a baby by a superior opponent who will not, or cannot because of insipid rules like this, compete to the best of his ability.