Oct 27, 2015 04:38 AM
www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/sports/youth-sports-again-take-a-hit-this-time-with-real-bullets.html
EXCERPT: . . . [Rick] Albright’s son had already called the police. He told them that he had run over something strange in the parking lot of Hurst Field here, home to the Mount Pleasant Area Junior Football League. There, in the parking space normally reserved for his father, the league president for the past 20 years, were four bullets. Each had the name of a league official on it, written in marker. One said, “Rick.” [...] The game that day was called off. [...] Now Albright, a 62-year-old retired machinist, did the only thing he could think of to keep everyone safe: He canceled the season’s remaining four games. Two days after the bullets were found, he received a threatening letter at home.
[...] Nothing ruins youth sports like adults acting crazy. But, sadly, it’s nothing new: Somebody did not like the league’s rules or the officiating or the fact that his or her child was not a star, and so out came the threats, or the fists, or, in this extreme case, an entirely different level of crazy. And now, in this rural area of rolling hills and farmland about 45 miles southeast of Pittsburgh — a hunting community where camouflage counts as casual wear and a barbershop keeps copies of magazines like Bowhunter and North American Whitetail in the waiting area — you’ve got people running for cover....
EXCERPT: . . . [Rick] Albright’s son had already called the police. He told them that he had run over something strange in the parking lot of Hurst Field here, home to the Mount Pleasant Area Junior Football League. There, in the parking space normally reserved for his father, the league president for the past 20 years, were four bullets. Each had the name of a league official on it, written in marker. One said, “Rick.” [...] The game that day was called off. [...] Now Albright, a 62-year-old retired machinist, did the only thing he could think of to keep everyone safe: He canceled the season’s remaining four games. Two days after the bullets were found, he received a threatening letter at home.
[...] Nothing ruins youth sports like adults acting crazy. But, sadly, it’s nothing new: Somebody did not like the league’s rules or the officiating or the fact that his or her child was not a star, and so out came the threats, or the fists, or, in this extreme case, an entirely different level of crazy. And now, in this rural area of rolling hills and farmland about 45 miles southeast of Pittsburgh — a hunting community where camouflage counts as casual wear and a barbershop keeps copies of magazines like Bowhunter and North American Whitetail in the waiting area — you’ve got people running for cover....