Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:24:17 -0400
From: Howard
Subject: Lacrosse in Chatham Schools?
Don’t see anything bad about having lacrosse come to Chatham Schools. Don’t know if it is possible to go all-county with a new sport immediately? Is it easier to start with one school and let it spread? Or is it easier to start on a county wide level? Where do we get lacrosse coaches from? Considering the quickness of the game can you shoot someone’s eye out with a lacrosse ball?
Howard
Interesting take on lacrosse by sports pontificator Bob Lee Swagger at
http://www.bobleesays.com/RunScript.asp?page=45&Article_ID=512&AR=AR&p=ASP\~Pg45.asp
I don’t normally pay attention to Lacrosse unless it involves DNA, two ho’s, and a dim-witted DA, but apparently the ACC is among the best again this year. UNC recently whipped superpower Hopkins and Duke, UVa, and Maryland are among the elite again.
I had a long chat with a notable Ram’s Club mover/shaker this week about Lacrosse. Lacrosse is a sport on the rise especially among non-African Americans who enjoy a contact sport but don’t have a place at the high school football table any longer. Lacrosse has become “White Boy Football”.
In a liberated post-Jeremiah World it is now politically chic (!) to “go with your cultural flow”. For a
Caucasian-American kid, unless you are a QB, center or place-kicker those Friday Night Lights don’t shine on you any longer.
That’s not good or bad. It is just the way it is.
When will Volleyball become “White Boy Basketball” .. the alternative for sports-minded Cauc kids in the winter? How many Cauc kids do you see in public school basketball?
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