[kingu]

Their championship tour continues, now they get to meet all the bloodsuckers who want to drive all that attention onto themselves. Make sure you’re ready by 4pm, as Jesse Jackson won’t want to wait on you little leaguers to line up behind him as he makes yet another pronouncement on the subject..

[Nifster]

Exactly. The hard bitter truth...more over it is the mentality that says as long as you don’t get caught (another version is it is better to ask forgiveness than permission)then it is all good. WRONG!WRONG!WRONG! Doing the right thing is a sign of character and is not always easy

[muir_redwoods]

It was a good team. It wasn’t legible to compete for the series. A good team, nonetheless but ineligible.

[Lake Living]

Sorry! Too late. Jesse already dun tod’em

“The children in Las Vegas and their coach should not want to accept the championship they did not earn,” Jackson says. #JRW
— Lauren FitzPatrick (@bylaurenfitz) February 11, 2015

[Blood of Tyrants]

Cheating is the Chicago way. They never suspected that anyone would call them on it.

[Proud2BeRight]

Would they have won the title without the players from outside their area?

[Defiant]

Would they have won without the players who were put on the team through illegal boundaries? I doubt they would have made it very far, that’s why the adults did it. The kids have been let down by the adults, but they should not consider themselves champs, any more than the Bronx team that won with a kid who was too old.

[blackdog]

"“knowingly violated Little League International rules and regulations by placing players on their team who did not qualify to play because they lived outside the team’s boundaries.”

Geographically disadvantaged due to race. What is this white man's obsession over where someone lives, were born, age, residency, and such? Just white man rules meant to keep blacks in their place./s

[grania]

I wish they could be embarrassed. What they did was remarkable. The crime is that the coach didn’t have enough confidence in local residents and instead used ringers.

[kenmcg]

One can only imagine the hue and outcry had a white team disobeyed the rules and beat a second place black team. So far this story is not being carried by the predominate main stream media.

[Menehune56]

And of course Jesse Jackson is waving the bloody shirt of "racism." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3256838/posts

[Ingtar]

From other sources, what are they going to do about the rest of the years (over a decade) where this was the practice in Chicago?

[bgill]

the adults that the young players trusted to lead them to a title “knowingly violated Little League International rules and regulations by placing players on their team who did not qualify to play because they lived outside the team’s boundaries.”

The kids also knew and went along with it. They are just as guilty as the adults. Don't sugarcoat that.

[Tupelo]

The theme to most of the stories, I seen about this seems to be;
It is more important to have an all African-American champion than to follow the rules.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

The kids that lived within the boundary limits and were cut from the team/or didn’t make the team due to the out-of-boundary players really got cheated.

[TexasCajun]

"Yeah! ...I Was Robbed!"

[chajin]

Jackie Robinson would not have done it. ‘Nuff said.

[Tenacious 1]

It’s a shame that sportmanship is in such decline. But in Chicago, the land of corruption it is no surprise.

For an uplifting, tear jerking reminder of what sportsmanship (or sportwomanship) can be like, be reminded. A movie could be made out of this story.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=5218228

[RayChuang88]

In short, another Chicago-area sham exposed--one with national implications. And it appeared on the surface such a really nice feel good story, too.

[nikos1121]

Please look at the responses to this posting..

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3256555/posts