Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

No Shirt No Service: High School Coach Jobless After His Boys Track Team Goes Topless
Yahoo Sports / The Post Game / The Daily Take ^ | Sunday, May 8 2011 | Eric Adelson

Posted on 05/08/2011 2:59:21 PM PDT by jimtorr

We've all wanted to tell a jogger to put his shirt back on, but what happened recently in suburban Boston is a little different.

Westwood High track coach Tom Davis was fired last week because one of his runners decided to take his shirt off during training on a 75-degree day. This wasn't a girl, by the way. It was a boy.

-snip-

That wasn't the end of it. Davis was let go on the spot, in front of his team, and eventually escorted off school property.

"The kids on my team, it was terrible," Davis told the TV station. "Their faces, just pure disgust, pure fear."

-snip-

But there was an undercurrent of tension at the school as Fogel told Davis that some members of the girls team felt uncomfortable when the boys ran without shirts. Davis even warned his team about possible punishment for not wearing a shirt.

(Excerpt) Read more at thepostgame.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: johnantonucci; karlfogel; schools; shirtless; tomdavis; westwoodhigh
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-68 next last
To: jimtorr

Just another battle won by women’s liberation in The War Against Boys.


21 posted on 05/08/2011 3:31:22 PM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jimtorr

What does the men’s boxing team do, put pasties on their nipples?


22 posted on 05/08/2011 3:31:29 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Le Parti du The'. Ne marchez pas sur moi!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jimtorr

I read the article and it’s my opinion that the guy who fired the coach is either a closet case or he’s wound up waaaaay too tight.


23 posted on 05/08/2011 3:36:53 PM PDT by GadareneDemoniac
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jimtorr
After all, this was John F’in Kerry's state of Pussychewsatts.
24 posted on 05/08/2011 3:38:06 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: onedoug

Ping


25 posted on 05/08/2011 3:39:01 PM PDT by windcliff
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jimtorr

What kind of f**king morons do y’all grow up there???


26 posted on 05/08/2011 3:45:25 PM PDT by RightOnline
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jimtorr

Seriously?! Back when I was in school, it was very common in a lot of the sports to play “shirts vs. skins.”


27 posted on 05/08/2011 3:50:10 PM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jimtorr

Ok, wait. Everyday I see the local HS track running without shirts (the guys anyway). There has to be more to the story. And the part about the girls feeling uncomfortable - BS.


28 posted on 05/08/2011 3:55:07 PM PDT by svcw (Non forgiveness is like holding a hot coal thinking the other person will be blistered)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Gondring
Westwood High Athletic Director, Karl Fogel: kfogel@westwood.k12.ma.us

29 posted on 05/08/2011 3:56:10 PM PDT by Shannon
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: jimtorr
How's that egalitarianism working out for us?
I assume the zero tolerance is the result of the unfairness of the women's track team being unable to do the same.

I believe in Oregon and/or Washington, that is officially no longer an issue.

30 posted on 05/08/2011 3:56:26 PM PDT by Publius6961 (There has Never been a "Tax On The Rich" that has not reached the middle class)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: FrdmLvr

I guess the girls are uncomfortable with the feelings they are having when seeing a teenager without his shirt.


31 posted on 05/08/2011 3:58:07 PM PDT by DallasDeb
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Snake65

Swimming? Where they wear speedos?


32 posted on 05/08/2011 3:58:40 PM PDT by DallasDeb
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: DallasDeb

Good point. It reminds me of the cop who said girls shouldn’t dress like sluts if they don’t want to get raped, or something like that.


33 posted on 05/08/2011 4:02:59 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (Death to tyrants)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: jimtorr

The students could straighten this out by resigning from the track team.


34 posted on 05/08/2011 4:05:23 PM PDT by chainsaw ("The government cannot give to anyone anything that it does not first take from someone else.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jimtorr

an easy solution was at MSNBC?

“Boy bras are a best-seller in Japan
An online lingerie retailer is helping cross-dressing men find lift and support “

but interest must have waned...

“Text: We’re sorry. The text content of this page is no longer available.”

NWO types must have found them uncomfortable?


35 posted on 05/08/2011 4:08:28 PM PDT by all_mighty_dollar
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jimtorr
Apparently, paranoid psychosis is a prerequisite for being hired by the educrats out east.
36 posted on 05/08/2011 4:10:42 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Will88

I wonder if these same girls feel uncomfortable when watching a boxing match on TV.


37 posted on 05/08/2011 4:11:28 PM PDT by chainsaw ("The government cannot give to anyone anything that it does not first take from someone else.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: Will88
Wonder what these girls do during the condom/cucumber demonstrations in sex ed class?
Cucumbers? Bananas are ok, but doesn't a big cucumber provide rather large expectations (and feed inadequacies)?
38 posted on 05/08/2011 4:34:37 PM PDT by conservaterian (Sarah/DeMint '12)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: texmexis best
It is possible that the suits they wear are full body suits to cut down on resistance.

Not likely since those FB suits cost hundreds of dollars each........High schools are still using the skimpy speedos........

39 posted on 05/08/2011 4:34:42 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (It's a beautiful day and I'm glad I can see it in color.......)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: FrdmLvr

These are the SAME girls who are “sexting” with the boys.


40 posted on 05/08/2011 4:35:55 PM PDT by madprof98 ("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-68 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson