HOCKEY: Cheap Shot Lands Coach in the Slammer
Tripping in the sport of hockey is usually a minor penalty where the offending player gets sent to the penalty box for two minutes. But for youth hockey coach Martin Tremblay, his tripping penalty will have him sitting in a penalty box for more than 20,000 minutes. I'm guessing Dean Blaise wouldn't have this guy on his bench . . .EVER!
The
As Tremblay was making his way down the line of players and coaches shaking hands after his team’s 5-4 win, Tremblay purposely swept out the legs of two opposing players and sent both tumbling down to the ice. One of the players, a 13-year-old, broke his wrist from the fall.
The scene turned ugly as fans began throwing water bottles onto the ice at Tremblay, which sparked the 48-year-old to start throwing up the middle finger to spectators in the stands as he left the ice.
The incident was caught on tape, and went viral almost immediately after being uploaded on YouTube.
His lawyer said that Tremblay was already paying a heavy price from the June incident, and had lost his job and his wife since the episode. Pretty heavy price to pay. But what he did says a lot about his character, something that turns off everyone, especially a wife.
AND . . . A High School Basketball Coach is Fired After a Parent is Upset at His Son's Playing Time . . . and Pays a Private Investigator to Dig Up Dirt on the Coach
At some point, the attitude of parents in
--Mike Hvizdo was a basketball coach at
--So the parent handled it in the most 2013 way possible. He hired a private investigator to DIG UP DIRT on Mike, to get him fired. And it worked.
--The private investigator found that Mike had appeared in a nine-minute short film called "Forbidden Fruit" back in 2003. The movie had a sexual theme, and lots of R-rated language, but no nudity. But the school felt it was enough to fire Mike.
--So they did. There's no word if that parent's kid has gotten more playing time from the new coach. Maybe purely out of fear . . .who knows.
