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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.
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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."
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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
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To: wastedyears
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posted on
05/09/2011 8:30:31 PM PDT
by
Impy
(Don't call me red.)
To: GOPsterinMA; fieldmarshaldj
Teen girls don’t like seeing boys without their shirts on? That’s odd.
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posted on
05/09/2011 8:36:04 PM PDT
by
Impy
(Don't call me red.)
To: Impy; fieldmarshaldj
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posted on
05/09/2011 8:37:33 PM PDT
by
GOPsterinMA
(Some men DO just want to watch the world burn.)
To: jimtorr
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.
Note to girls: that feeling is your libido. If it feels "uncomfortable," maybe that's a sign to join field hockey.
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posted on
05/09/2011 8:51:40 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: Impy
That was over 10 years ago for me, I can’t remember.
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posted on
05/09/2011 9:29:13 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(SEAL SIX makes me proud to have been playing SOCOM since 2003.)
To: Gondring
No..I’m guessing they are just infected with the “it’s not fair...if we can’t take ours off, then they shouldn’t” attitude. Bingo. I live scant miles from this town and have been involved in many a sporting event at Westwood High.
Your take is the most accurate so far.
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posted on
05/31/2011 8:22:19 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(A "Moderate Muslim"? Nothing more than a Muslim Extremist who has run out of ammo.)
To: onedoug
Seems to me the boys have a uniform for their sport, practice and meets, and should not be out of it while on the field. Perhaps. But it seems to me the AD is a swaggering tin-plated dictator with delusions of godhood and a control freak to boot.
He could have given the student in question a detention or suspended him from the next meet. But fire the coach? The AD had it in for the coach from the get go. Some bad blood there.
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posted on
05/31/2011 8:33:13 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(A "Moderate Muslim"? Nothing more than a Muslim Extremist who has run out of ammo.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
I live scant miles from this town and have been involved in many a sporting event at Westwood High. I appreciate you adding your first-hand perspective.
What a sad situation.
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posted on
06/01/2011 4:29:47 AM PDT
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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