DISCOURAGING: Catholic youth basketball game parents set a new low bar for conduct

Friday, January 16, 2026

https://nypost.com/2026/01/15/us-news/nyc-parents-erupt-into-massive-brawl-during-catholic-youth-basketball-game-at-staten-island/

Parents erupt into massive brawl during Catholic youth basketball game in Staten Island
By Bonny Chu, Fox News
Published Jan. 15, 2026
Updated Jan. 15, 2026, 7:21 a.m. ET

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Spectators ejected by a referee for disruptive behavior at a CYO basketball game will now face a one-year ban.

“The mission was about the kids,” Fossella, whose children reportedly played CYO basketball, said during a press conference.

“The mission was about teaching them responsibility. The mission was about them having a good time: the kids. The kids are the center of this universe here. And every once in a while some spectators get out of control and ruin it for the kids and ruin it for everybody else.”

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Hard to imagine that could occur.

When my sainted wife was coaching 6-8 grade girls basketball, she had ONE instance where ONE parent was getting “too EXCITED with the refs”.   She immediately called a (valuable) time out, left the team with her assistant and me, stomped across the court, and QUIETLY read the parent the riot act.  That was the last we ever heard him do that at a game. The Old Lady didn’t want any <synonym for excrement> distracting “her” girls.  

Hopefully all involved are properly “instructed in the error of their ways”.   For Catholics to behave like common street thugs is a terrible example to set for their children, other children, and the world in general.

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POLITICAL: The relentless dishonesty of modern Democrats

Sunday, May 24, 2015

https://www.newsmax.com/NewtGingrich/baltimore-riots-freddie-gray/2015/05/17/id/645106/

What’s Behind the Collapse of Baltimore
Sunday, 17 May 2015 10:13 AM
By Newt Gingrich

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As Archbishop of Baltimore William Lori points out, the Catholic schools cost $6,000 a year and have a 99 percent graduation rate. Yet the Democrats are committed to locking poor children out of those schools if it takes a dime away from funds for failing, unionized public schools.

With school choice policies, we could save children’s lives while saving money. Instead the left wing unions and bureaucracies ruthlessly exploit children, ruining their lives while the Democratic leadership in the Maryland House blocks school choice bills that would give children a chance to attend better schools and would force schools to compete for students by actually being good schools.

There is no greater example of the relentless dishonesty of modern Democrats than their willingness to destroy children’s lives while blaming others. President Obama could quit blaming Fox News and simply demand school choice (which of course he opposes) and he would radically improve the lives of millions of trapped poor children.

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I have always liked Newt’s brains. His morals cost him the Presidency.

But read this article and he factually pounds home the immoral, ineffective, and inefficient government by one party.

It’s hard to imagine the lives that have been lost, the possibilities missed, and the trees lost by the terrible Gooferment Skrules.

Further, after ending the Fed, I can’t think of a more important step to improve America than to Separate Education and the State.

We wouldn’t think of the Gooferment running food so why do we let it “ruin” Education and Health Insurance?

Argh!

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