Free-lance combat ...After years of witnessing confrontations between athletes and officials and between parents and officials, we are now processing the third round of free-lance combat--the one between parents and coaches. How bad can such a confrontation really be? Much worse than you may suspect. Allow us to present the beauty that occurred on May 17th at the classic Sacred Heart Academy (high school) in Hamden, CT. Two outstanding events had been scheduled for May 18th--a softball championship game at Sacred Heart and a prom (Programmable ROM) A permanent memory chip in which the content is created (programmed) by the customer rather than by the chip manufacturer. It differs from a ROM chip, which is created at the time of manufacture. PROMs are used for storage when their content is not expected to change, but in many applications, they have given way to EPROMs and EEPROMs, which can be reprogrammed. See PROM programmer, memory types and EEPROM. at a nearby high school. The third baseman at Sacred Heart created a hassle. She chose to attend the prom with her boy friend. Her coach immediately suspended her for three days. The day before the game/prom, the girl showed up at school with her father. They pleaded with the coach to let her go to the prom without suspending her from the team. He rejected their request. As the coach turned and started off the field, the father produced a baseball bat. (The newspaper never explained where the bat came from, but it was pretty clear about what Dad did with it.) He delivered six blows to the coach's head. The cops were called. The hospital was called. The town went into shock. The coach was released the next day to file a civil suit against the father, and to announce his resignation from the school. We're certain that all kinds of other wonderful things happened in the ensuing days and weeks. We lost track. But an incredible souvenir of the ball game was left on the field. It was a poster that had been put up on the field eight years before. It was a poster that read: Southern Connecticut Conference SPECTATOR EXPECTATIONS * Respect decisions made by contest officials. * Refrain from taunting, booing, heckling, and the use of profanity in any manner. * Sit in the designated areas assigned to each school. * Leaving a contest prior to its conclusion, with expectations of returning is not permitted. * Attendance at this contest is not a license to verbally assault others or be generally obnoxious. * Respect athletes, coaches, officials, and fans. |
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