Bad Acts - 2004
Tucson, AZ. 2004 - High School Senior Joe Kay suffers stroke after fans charge court to celebrate big win in February, 2004. Kay wins big settlement in 2006: Stanford Recruit Gets Settlement San Francisco Chronicle April 14, 2006 page C6 by Sam Whiting.
Albany, CA. 2004 - Youth Soccer Coach beats soccer referee in a game involving 8 and 9 year old players. The coach was convicted in July, 2005.
Pittsburgh, PA 2004 - Ref body slammed at high school basketball game.
Bad Acts - 2002
Click here for coach convicted for wire fraud for illegal payments to basketball players. U.S.v. Piggie, (8th Cir. 2002).
Bad Acts - 2001
Atlanta, GA - Feb. 13, 2001 - Oliver Lewis Wood, A Baptist Minister Refs Youth Basketball Game and Knifes the Coach - A Man Bites Dog Story So To Speak. Click here for more. Also see Baptist Minister Charged In Knife Attack On Coach, The Alabama Baptist - Feb. 22, 2001. Follow this link for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Archives on the story: http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_hidethis=no&p_product=AT&p_theme=at&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring="oliver%20lewis%20wood"&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=("oliver%20lewis%20wood")&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no (this link exceeds the maximum length for a link, necessitating insertion onto the page).
Click here for Youth Game Ends With Adult Knifing by Sonja Lewis, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 15, 2001.
Bad Acts - 2000
Florida, September 22, 2000 - Youth Coach Accused of Breaking Boy's Arms, ABC News.
South Brunswick, NJ - September 14, 2000 - Tournament Ends In Fight: A Growing National Problem Hits Home by Matthew Armstrong, Princeton Packet Online, September 14, 2000 and Tournament Ends In Fight: South Brunswick Soccer Tournament Ends On An Ugly Note by Matthew Armstrong, Princeton Packet Online, September 14, 2000. Fight between parents ruins soccer game for 8 and 9 year-olds.
Reading, MA - July, 2000 - Hockey Dad Kills Coach In Youth Hockey Attack - For Information on The Legal Resolution, See 'Hockey Dad' Gets 6 to 10 Years For Fatal Beating, January 25, 2002, cnn.com.
Bad Acts - 1995
Compton, CA - Ref Attacked: Player Alleges Ref Used the "N" Word. See Racial Furor In Compton, CA Over High School Gridder Who Punched Referee For Allegedly Calling Him "Nigger.", Jet Magazine, December 11, 1995; Incident In Black and White by Bill Topp, Referee Magazine, February 1996; and Player, Referee At Odds Over Punch by Deborah Hastings, Associated Press published in South Coast (Massachusetts) Today, November 18, 1995.
Bad Acts - 1994
Renton, WA - August 1, 1994 - Little League Father Dies After Fight At Championship Game by Wayne Wurzer, Dee Norton, Seattle Times, August 1, 1994.
Bad Acts - 1987
Absecon, N.J. - December 28, 1987 - 5 Injured In A Fight At Basketball Game, New York Times, December 28, 1987.
Bad Acts - 1984
Oklahoma, June 8, 1984 - Tulsa Oklahoma Parent Attacks Umpire. See Sports People, New York Times, June 8, 1984.