What is wrong with the world?

[daniels116]

First let me say that I found this and did not come up with it but felt like it needed to talked about. So thank you fox sports.

You play ball like a girl.

That used to be an insult. In Beaverton, Oregon, it's becoming more like a fantasy.

Jaime Nared, a 12-year-old girl who stands 6-foot-1, has been told she can no longer play on the boys team of which she has been a member since the second grade, according to a report on the Web site of The Oregonian. Curiously, the timing of her ban came in the wake of a 30-point effort against an all-boys team.

"She scored 30 points," Jaime's mom, Reiko Williams, told The Oregonian. "I remember one play. She stole the ball, dribbled up court and made a behind-the-back pass to a teammate. He missed the lay-in, and she grabbed the rebound and put it in. I think it was just too much for some of those parents.

"The next day, she came home and said they wouldn't let her play with the boys anymore."

Last month, a group of parents from an opposing team told management at The Hoop, a private Beaverton basketball facility that runs the league in which Nared's team competes, that they didn't like Nared playing against their sons. Hoop officials then told Nared's coach, Michael Abraham, that she could no longer play, citing a league rule that prohibits mixed-gender teams, the newspaper reported.

"I never saw the rule," said Abraham, who has coached basketball for 32 years.

"If I'd known about it, I wouldn't have put any of my teams in the league. Besides, she's been playing on this team since second grade, and she plays on our team when we travel around the region. There's never been any problem in any event, not one word of complaint."

Neal Franzer, The Hoop's director of operations, told the paper that parents were "adamant" their complaints had nothing to do with Jaime's skills.

"They said the problem was the boys were playing differently against her because she was a girl," Franzer said, according to the paper. "They'd been taught to not push a girl, so they weren't fouling her hard, and the focus had shifted from playing basketball to noticing a girl was on the floor with them.

"The rule may not have been enforced in past years," Franzer said. "We have new management this year. It's policy, and we enforce policy."

Nared, however, had a different take.

"I think the boys on a specific team don't like me," she said. "It doesn't seem fair."

Abraham was also skeptical about the ruling.

"I can't think of one boy that we've played against that's had a problem with her," he said. "Maybe their dads do. Teach the boys how to handle her. Front her, deny her the ball. You sure as hell don't complain. Listen, she's a girl's girl, but she plays tough. She's no cupcake. She gets knocked down and takes a charge."


Now as if there needed to be anything else in this world right now that needs to be regulated it has to be how kids play together. I mean really what is the world coming to where if there is a girl who may happen to be better than you boy you have her tossed from the league. What kind of example are these parents teaching? did they even bother to try to teach their kids to try and over come adversity or did they just learn if things are not going your way find a leagle hole and exploit it? I really wish that natural selection would be allowed to follow its natural course, because then we would not have these problems. just keep in mind when you were young, you parents said don't touch then you burnt your self then you mom or dad would pop you in the back of the head and say "told you not to touch that, you should listyen to me" all smug like. now we coddle the kids and look where we are, there is a girl who has the talent and abilty to play with the boys and win and we have her kicked out for it. God bless the american leagle system.
Sorry I rantede there a bit but it does hold to what I am trying to get to. We as a nation need to look hard at what we are saying and teaching to our kids and then make a decison as to weather or not it is for their good or not.

[Paladine030]

Dude, this has been going on for so long now....Even as we were kids, our parents started losing their parenting rights,...don't spank, slap, paddle, belt, hand, foot, kick, or whatever.... your kid. Now it is understandable thet you do not beat a kid senseless, but I have to say, some kids do need a good slap, or a real honest critique,.....something to straighten their butts out. Having had many foster kids come through my house (crazy parents) I've seen some winners and losers. Many. Some just needed a nudge to excel on their own, or do better for themselves, or to steer clear of idiocy. Some needed a huge thwack. For those thwack-needers, about 90% of them had parents who needed the backlash of said thwack. But the other 10% or so, were really afraid to do the right thing for fear of the law.....which is really a shame. Now that I have gone WAY off subject, I'd say the parents who complained need some serious backlashing......

[daniels116]

dude stay on target. you got it right though

[Paladine030]

oops