Overheard in the press box

Wouldn't be the first time a 14-year-old dressed and looked like she was 24. What the hell are high school students doing working press box on game day? and at a school like Baylor? That SID should be reported to the campus chaplain for inciting lust.

 

Nice

 

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I know this story and I know who the writer in question is. I also know who the SID was at the time. A buddy of mine was a student assistant at the time.

This happened a long time ago - like back in the Grant Teaff Era at Baylor.

We could start a whole other thread on Southwest Conference Press Box/Press Row/Football Media Tour stories.

 

Man, no way. The percentage of HS football players who can accurately spell a teammate's name is pretty f'ing low. Unless everyone you cover is John Smith and Max Jones, many kids will get it wrong even if they are trying to be honest and helpful.

I covered a prep athlete whose name had been spelled wrong throughout high school by his own coaches, newspapers, etc., according to him and his family. That error continued when he went off to college. He never wanted to make a deal out of it, but eight years and I was the only one who ever spelled it right. So I agree, trusting a roster is a slippery slope, but so is trusting a coach, an SID, a teammate or, in some cases, the kid themselves (if they're a jokester).

 

No car dates. Just hand jobs on the patio.

 

The best girls basketball player we've ever had in our area and her mom didn't agree on the spelling of her first name. The girl said it was one way, but mom said 'no, there's no hyphen' in her name. Or maybe it was the reverse.

 

Leroy Selmon and Lee Roy Selmon don't see the problem with getting a person's name wrong.

 

I've had that come up, so I'd go to the kid. In more than one instance, the kid said, "it doesn't matter. Spell it how you want." Huh? I guess names don't mean what they used to.

 

UCLA's Marcus Patton didn't tell anybody his first name was Marvcus until he was a senior.

 

have a kid named MacKenzie in the area, he goes by MacK. That's right, MacK.

 

I remember a PA announcer who struggled to pronounce a kid's name. It's an easy name, but the kid's parents wanted it read one way and the grandparents wanted it read the other way.