Tennis Coach Caught in Online Sex Sting - No, this isn't a duplicate story from the one we brought you earlier this week. This time it's a tennis coach from North Rowan High School who thought he was talking to a 15-year-old girl about having sex at her house. Not! (The Dispatch)

Cal Baseball Team Disciplined for Hazing Freshmen During Initiation Event Coaches Knew About - Listen to this one: it's 11 pm last January 15 and campus cops at the University of California drive past the school's baseball diamond. What do they see? Six freshman baseball players wearing only G-string underwear and shoes, and two of them are blindfolded. What explanation was given this unusual choice of wardrobe in the middle of winter? According to the upperclassmen present, the frosh are going to run an obstacle course although, according to the cops, nothing resembling an obstacle course was visible. Eight Cal baseball players were cited by UC police for participating in hazing and, although the athletic department says they were disciplined, none were suspended or missed any games for the Golden Bears this season. But the most interesting part of the story is that the players had permission from their coaches to be on the field . . . at 11 o'clock at night . . . for what the coaches believed was a "legitimate team-building activity." Say what? Either the coaching staff there at Cal is not very bright, didn't really want to know what was going on, or they are shoveling us a load of manure . . . in our opinion. Anyone who says coaches at the college level don't know about the hazing that goes on with their teams is either trying to fool you or themselves. (Daily Californian)

And It Happens Again: Longtime Coach/Teacher Arrested in Online Sex Sting - Once again, a grown man everyone liked and trusted was allegedly online trying to solicit sex from a 14-year-old girl . . . who turned out to be a 40-year-old cop. John Walker, who was the Athletics Director at Grand Junction High School, is suspected of Internet luring of a child and enticement of a child, both class four felonies. (Daily Sentinel) 

Mom Sues School Board for $3 Million After Football Playing Son's Sodomy Hazing - Are week-long, overnight football camps really necessary for high school football teams? Several years ago we had the infamous Mepham High School football hazing, where several younger players were sodomized with a variety of objects including broom handles, golf balls and pine cones. Now comes word that more "shoving of objects where they don't belong" was going on at a Willingboro High School (PA) summer football camp last year. The mother of a sophomore player claims her son was physically and sexually assaulted by fellow players during an apparent hazing incident. According to John Borbi, an attorney representing the alleged victim, “(He) was ripped out of his bed, held down, punched, kicked and sodomized with an object, all in the presence of several older students. (He) was only a sophomore. He's a very quiet, small, thin young man.” The resulting damage to his behind--and brain--have resulted in $3 million in medical bills and other costs and mom has now sued the school board claiming that it was "negligent in its duty to assure the football players were properly supervised." (Philly Burbs)

Stranger Takes Naked Pics of Princeton Athletes - It's one of the problems with having an open campus and an unsecured locker room: people will just walk into places they don't belong . . . like the bathroom stalls in the Caldwell Fieldhouse on the campus of Princeton Univerisyt where members of the track and lacrosse teams were showering and changing clothes . . . and getting their pictures taken without their permission. According to several victims, the amateur photographer who was sporting a "well-done mullet and . . . a handlebar moustache," was taking pictures while reaching underneath the shower stalls! After being spotted he took off and--not surprisingly--no one on the track team could catch him. It likely will NOT be a banner year for Princeton track and field this year. (Daily Princetonian)

Promising College Baseball Star Sues University After Career-Ending Injury Suffered During . . . Hazing? - It's been almost a year since we brought you the infamous Northwestern women's soccer team and Dirty Dozen initiation pictures. At that time we stated that the turning point on this issue for the universities (which seem to be ignoring their own hazing policies) would be a lawsuit brought by a jock who was injured during one of these rituals. Has that day finally come? Should university presidents and athletic directors be shaking in their boots? We're not legal experts, but in doing this site for seven years we can't remember a college athlete suing because of injuries suffered during an "off field" activity. Sure, some college frats have been sued for going overboard with the butt paddlings and we have seen the parents of HS athletes file lawsuits when junior gets a painful wedgie . . . but nothing from a college jock. Until now. Jason Vecchio was drafted out of HS by the Cincinnati Reds in 2005 and decided to play his college baseball at the University of Texas at San Antonio. According to a lawsuit filed recently by Vecchio, he and a couple of other players missed curfew last season and they were forced to do military style training drills--similar to hazing--as punishment. (Okay, so it's not a pure hazing case, but the elements are still the same.) And you guessed it: while doing those drills, Vecchio says he heard his shoulder pop, but was forced to continue pitching anyway. In fact, he claims that instead of getting professional treatment, he was just given a cortisone shot to mask the injury. Of course, later an MRI showed he had a more serious injury: a torn rotator cuff and he underwent surgery. Unfortunately his arm never fully recovered and the Reds released him from his contract. Now he's suing UTSA, several coaches and trainers claiming they cost him a chance to play major league baseball . . . and of course all the cash that brings in. We're trying to get our hands on a copy of the suit and will be following this story for you over the coming weeks and months. (WOAI)

Mother of the Year Finalist? Soccer Mom Leaves Daughter Along Highway for Poor Game Performance - Something smacks of a hoax or a misunderstanding about this to us, but here's the story: A Nebraska woman was driving her 15-year-old daughter home from a soccer game along I-80 and was allegedly trying to get her to girl concentrate more on the mental portion of her game by asking her to "repeat lines about improving her performance." This, after the girl has a particularly bad game that day. Being a 15-year-old girl, she reportedly messed up the lines at which point mom--trying to be helpful--allegedly slapped the young soccer player, pulled over, yelled at her and let her child off a downtown exit and then drove away. Fortunately for the girl, another soccer family from the same team was driving home along the same stretch of rode and picked her up. According to police, the 42-year-old Lincoln woman was ticketed on suspicion of child neglect and was pelted with stones by an angry mob in the public square. Okay, we made that last part up, but the people of Nebraska should consider making that a part of the law. (Journal Star)