Swimming coach gets his Jerry Springer on

Posted on Wed Mar 28, 2007 at 12:19:15 PM EST in Other Sports
More on: swimming, jackass, fathers, video (all tags)

Well folks, here's an early entry into the 2007 Sports Father of the Year contest. While some fathers have tackled other kids or pulled out a gun at a pee-wee football game, this guy actually assaulted his own daughter after she failed to qualify for the 50-meter backstroke semifinals. Oh and he was also her coach.

Mikhail Zubkov was caught on camera battling with his daughter Kateryna Zubkova (video below) and he is now banned from any further contact with his daughter and has had his accreditation stripped for the FINA world championships in Melbourne. On top of that, the police are investigating the incident.

Links:
[Bloomberg]: Swimming Coach Banned After Fighting With Daughter (Update1)
[Sydney Morning Herald]: Family feud: coach detained

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Vote for the 2006 worst father in sports

Posted on Mon Nov 06, 2006 at 02:15:09 PM EST in Other Sports
More on: youth football, jackass (all tags)

Dan Hinkle

We're sorry folks, we have made a mistake by prematurely giving the "Sports Father of the Year" to a guy who pulled out a gun during a pee-wee football game. It's pretty hard to top a moron who pulls out a .357 magnum and threatens a coach but a man in Virginia has managed to at least tie him.

Dan Hinkle is the father of a player on the South County Raptors. He is also the commissioner of the league. The Raptors were supposed to play in the first round of the playoffs but they don't have any coaches because Hinkle fired them. Did they yell at the kids? Were they grossly incompetent? Nope, they simply played his son on offense instead of defense.

In an email sent before the start of the season, Hinkle laid out the rules of "his" league:

[On defense, my son] goes in and stays in. That includes all practices, scrimmages and games. This entire league exists so he can play defense on the best team in his weight class. . . . He is my son, I own the league, and he plays every snap on defense.

Uhhh.. whatever you say jackass. The coaches played his son on offense because they thought it'd give them the best chance of winning the game -- which they did. And for that they both got fired. Meanwhile, Hinkle generously offered to hire another coach but the kids (showing some loyalty) refused to play for any other coach.

So there you have it folks. Who is the worst parent? The guy who pulls out a gun in a rage or the guy who is just a complete asshole. It's a tough call. Vote to your right.

Links:
[Washington Post]: N.Va. Boys' Championship Dream Doomed by a Moment of Vengeance

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Glucose pills today... Shawne Merriman's supplements tomorrow

Posted on Fri Oct 27, 2006 at 11:34:30 AM EST in Other Sports
More on: steroids, kids, jackass (all tags)

Hey kids, snack time!

A Reading, PA pee wee hockey coach has resigned after acknowledging that he gave his players "performance-enhancing pills". The pills in question were over-the-counter glucose tablets that boosts energy. Jeff Kantner, of the Reading Junion Royals, said that he gave the 11 and 12-year-olds the tablets to counteract the effects of too much candy. How do you keep kids from coming down off a sugar high? Give em more sugar! Seems brilliant to us.

"Off camera, the youth players told NBC 10 they had no adverse reaction to the pills and they are upset about losing their coach." Hell, who doesn't like a coach that hands out sugar pills? Next time Kantner, be smart about it and just hand out some kisses. Hershey's that is. The other kind would get you in a whole different kind of trouble.

Links:
[NBC10]: Youth Coach Accused Of Giving Pills To Players

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Sports Father of the Year

Posted on Tue Oct 24, 2006 at 01:14:06 PM EST in Other Sports
More on: crime, jackass, football, kids (all tags)

Don't even bother with more nominations folks, the 2006 Father of the Year is Philadelphia's Wayne Derkotch. Derkotch pulled a gun on the coach of his son's pee-wee football team because his (now psychologically scarred son) wasn't getting enough playing time. According to witnesses, Derkotch started arguing with the coach and the two started fighting before Derkotch pulled out a .357 Magnum. Everyone hit the ground and Derkotch took off in his truck.

The referee of the game, Shawn Henwood, tried to write down the license plate number when another upstanding citizen by the name of Paul Derkotch knocked the paper out of his hand and started fighting with the ref. By now, cops were on the scene and they saw Henwood hit Paul Derkotch in the jaw and arrested Henwood. (Ironic that a ref would get arrested for the retaliation and not the initial blow, isn't it?) In any case, police also tracked down Wayne Derkotch and arrested him.

So now the junion Derkotch, in addition to sucking at pee wee football also has a lunatic for a father. We're gonna go ahead and guess that he's not going to grow up to be a Supreme Court judge.

Links:
[Philly.com]: A dad and the ref are charged

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Odds and Ends: Trash Talk Scoreboard - Jeter 1 Ortiz 0

Posted on Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 04:12:19 PM EST in MLB
More on: Yankees, Red Sox, Duke, Islanders, jackass (all tags)

Jeter to Ortiz: Sit down

On Sunday, Big Papi decided to talk a little trash and say that Derek Jeter's MVP candidacy was illegitimate because of the Yankees murderer's row of hitters.

Don't get me wrong, he's a great player but he's got a lot of guys in that lineup. Top to bottom, you've got a guy who can hurt you. Come hit in this lineup, see how good you can be.

Jeter responded by pointing to the division standings.

I'm not thinking about the MVP right now. We're thinking about winning a division. We've still got something to play for.

In other news...

[All Headline News]: New GM Garth Snow and crazy Isles owner Charles Wang gives DiPietro 15 year $67.5M contract

[MSNBC]: Coach K decries 'cloud' of rape case. Basketball coach says it's unfair that all of Duke athletics were tainted

[Footyblog]: Top Wives and Girlfriends in English soccer

[WHDH Boston]: Red Sox fan cursed at Red Sox players, shook his seat loose from bolting and throws seat in the face of a Maine woman nearby

[Superflav]: Off Topic but very cool: best rock video choreography you'll ever see live

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There's your Karma, Cleveland

Posted on Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 03:43:21 PM EST in NFL
More on: Browns, jackass (all tags)

Stay Classy, Cleveland

You ever wonder why Cleveland is the most cursed city in sports? And why the Browns seem to be the most cursed franchise? It's because one of their fans will actually steal a wheelchair from a guy with spina bifoda. The fan leaves his wheelchair at the bottom of the landing before walking up to his seat. At the end of the game, he walked back down and his wheelchair was gone.

Now can you understand why prize free-agent signing LeCharles Bentley blew out his left knee in the first practice of the season and why another free agent Joe Jurevicius suffered a rib injury in the first game. Romeo Crennel should just quit right now and get the hell out of there. It's not ever going to get any better.

Of course, just last week, Cleveland was named the most loyal fans in the NFL.

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Assistant Coach tackles 13 year old

Posted on Tue Sep 05, 2006 at 04:06:45 PM EST in Other Sports
More on: jackass (all tags)

Father of the Year!

An assistant coach on a Pop Warner team has been charged with child abuse after he tackled a 13 year old. Video shows that at the end of a play, a player from the Stockton Bears made a late hit on a player from the Riverback Redskins. That player's father (the Redskins assistant coach) didn't like it so he ran onto the field and hit the Bears player from behind. That triggered a brawl.

The coach, identified as Cory Petero, then tried to hop a fence to escape police. He turned himself in later and was booked on one count of child abuse.

It's good to know that fathers are still taking an interest in the lives of their kids. In a society where all too often boys are raised by single mothers, it's heartwarming that there are fathers out there still showing love to their boys the only way they know how -- attacking a rival 13 year old.

And they say society is falling apart.

Links:
[KCRA3]: Incident Triggers Brawl During Pop Warner Game (with video)

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Kevan Barlow compares Nolan to Hitler

Posted on Wed Aug 23, 2006 at 02:31:49 PM EST in NFL
More on: 49ers, NFL, jackass (all tags)

Kevan's first Photoshop project

In a phone interview with the Contra Costa Times on Tuesday, Kevan Barlow ripped into Niners head coach Mike Nolan.

Nolan just doesn't know what he's doing. He's a first-time head coach with too much power. He has too much power as a first-time head coach. He walks around with a chip on his shoulder, like he's a dictator, like he's Hitler. People are scared of him. If it ain't Nolan's way, it's the highway.

Barlow accused Nolan of lying to him because a week before he was traded to the Jets, Nolan assured him that he would not be traded.

It was dirty. He had no respect for me or the organization. He doesn't know about the 49ers way, and that's too bad because even his dad (Dick) was coach of the 49ers. Bill Walsh set the standard there, and he ain't living up to it.

Barlow said that about half the team feels the way he does. Ouch. It doesn't sound like Nolan will be getting a Christmas card from Barlow this year.

Links:
[Contra Costa Times]: Barlow lashes out at Nolan
[Sportsline]: Jets' Barlow apologizes to former coach Nolan for 'Hitler' remarks

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July 25 in Sports History: Roseanne Barr wrecks the National Anthem

Posted on Tue Jul 25, 2006 at 02:13:27 PM EST in MLB
More on: cycling, sports history, jackass (all tags)

In 1990: Before the start of the Reds-Padres game in San Diego, somebody for some reason let Roseanne Barr “sing” the National Anthem. While not quite up to Whitney Houston’s version at the Super Bowl that year, it wasn’t even Carl Lewis-sad-funny or that little-girl-who-forgot-the-words cute. After screeching through an off-key rendition, Roseanne showed her patriotism by grabbing her crotch and spitting. The crowd booed, and many people were upset, including President Bush, who called it “disgusting,” and a “disgrace.” She later apologized.

In 1999: Nearly dead from cancer just three years earlier, cyclist Lance Armstrong comes all the way back to win the Tour de France for the first time. Armstrong was only the second American to win the Tour (Greg Lemond did it three times in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s). Given just a 40 percent chance to live after testicular cancer had spread to his lungs and brain, Armstrong’s feat was considered one of the greatest comebacks in sports history. Although this 1999 victory would’ve have been enough, he went out and won the event seven straight times, including this day in 2004.

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Congratulations to Shea Hillenbrand on adopting a little girl!

Posted on Thu Jul 20, 2006 at 11:59:17 AM EST in MLB
More on: Blue Jays, jackass (all tags)

Shea Hillenbrand was designated for assignment (i.e. released) yesterday after he criticized the Blue Jays for not having him in the starting lineup for the second day in a row and for failing to congratulate him on adopting a baby girl. Hillenbrand was particulatly upset with manager John Gibbons for criticizing him in front of the whole team.

According to the Toronto Star, the final straw in a strained relationship between Hillenbrand and Gibbons came when Hillenbrand wrote "This is a sinking ship" on a clubhouse chalkboard. Gibbons confronted Hillenbrand in a team meeting, called him a cancer and a coward and challenged him to a fight.

Gibby called a team meeting and then he stood up and reamed me out in front of my teammates. I'm very disappointed about what he did and I find it very unprofessional.

From the beginning of the season, there were times when I wasn't playing and there would be no justifiable excuse. He said that if I had a problem with the team or what was going on, I should come into the manager's office and talk to him.

But then, he would get mad at me when I did that and accuse me of being a selfish player.

The Blue Jays organization has said their version of events differ considerably but won't elaborate on what happened.

Meanwhile, speaking about the adoption of his baby girl, Hillenbrand somehow managed to insult the reporters out of the blue.

Not one person from the front office has even come up to congratulate me. It's all the little people like you guys. But nobody from higher up. That's a disgrace.

Gee, Hillenbrand, I'm sure the beat reporters like to be reminded that they make no money and are just "little people" to you.

[Toronto Star]: Fired Jay blames manager
[ESPN ]: Hillenbrand cut after criticizing Jays front office

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