Brickbat: Unsportsmanlike Conduct

New York's Northville Central School District has fired high school basketball coach Jim Zullo after video showed him yanking his star player's ponytail. The incident happened after the Northville girls' team lost the Class D state championship game. Hailey Monroe, Northville's all-time leading scorer, had already fouled out and was crying when Zullo grabbed her hair and yelled at her before a teammate stepped between them. Zullo, an 81-year-old Hall of Fame coach, claimed Monroe had cursed at him earlier.

Comments

[Vernon Depner]

There's no crying in basketball.

[Minadin]

Someone's not a Mizzou fan.

[Fist of Etiquette]

My coach used to pull my pony tail all the time. This was my dressage coach, of course, and it did motivate my pony to do better.

[Chumby]

Why couldn’t Zullo have been more like another inappropriate Methuselah and sniff the ponytail instead?

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Qualified Immunity granted! Bobby Knight never pulled a pony tail.

[Incunabulum]

Do they want to win or not?

[LIBtranslator]

The geezer's a shoo-in for Republican dog-zoner candidate: God's Own Prohibitionist Party, where you qualify if you are man enough to bully a girl!

[Redstick56]

The basketball equivalent of grabbing a football player’s facemask. Uncool.