Second thoughts

Schilling stands up for decency

Former Boston pitcher Curt Schilling struck back at Twitter users who made off-color comments about his daughter.
Former Boston pitcher Curt Schilling struck back at Twitter users who made off-color comments about his daughter.

Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling is firing back at the Twitter users who posted offensive comments about his daughter on the social media site.

Schilling congratulated his daughter on Twitter last week after she was accepted into Salve Regina University, where she'll play softball next year.

Multiple people later posted vulgar and sexually explicit comments about her.

Schilling wrote on his blog Sunday the ignorance and lack of morals and integrity are astounding. He reposted tweets and has identified some of the people responsible. He says it's never OK for a man to talk about a woman like that and it's time for it to stop.

"This is a generation of kids who have grown up behind the monitor and keyboard," Schilling wrote. "The real world has consequences when you do and say things about others. We're at a point now where you better be sure who you're going after. [...] What these kids are failing to realize, what this generation fails to realize is this: Everything they've just said and done? That is out there now, forever. It can, and in some cases will, follow them for the rest of their lives."

Schilling also played for the Philadelphia Phillies and the Arizona Diamondbacks. His video game company received a $75 million state loan guarantee in Rhode Island but went bankrupt, leaving taxpayers on the hook.

One of the Twitter users who posted comments about Schilling' daughter was fired Tuesday by the New York Yankees. Sean MacDonald, a graduate of Montclair State University, was hired as a part-time ticket seller by the Yankees in January.

"Consider this a harsh lesson," wrote Mike Oz of Yahoo! Sports.

Reverse course

The Narbonne High School girls' basketball team in Los Angeles was forced to forfeit its semifinal victory Monday for wearing the wrong color uniforms without permission.

Narbonne, whose school colors are green and gold, wore white uniforms with green piping and pink numbers and letters. Coach Victoria Sanders told The Daily Breeze in Los Angeles that her team was taking part in the "Play 4Kay" campaign, to raise awareness for the Kay Yow Cancer Fund. Yow, the longtime North Carolina State coach, died of breast cancer in 2009.

The Los Angeles City Section took away Narbonne's 57-52 victory over View Park and kicked the Gauchos out of the postseason for violating Article 1305 of the rule book.

But on Tuesday, the team was reinstated to the City Section playoffs by a three-person panel. Narbonne will face Palisades High in the section championship game Saturday at Cal State Dominguez Hills, but the Gauchos will be without their coach Victoria Sanders, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Sanders has been suspended for the remainder of the season. It was part of the decision to allow her team to continue playing. Narbonne will remain on probation through next season and the school will not be allowed to host a girls' basketball playoff game at Narbonne's home court in 2016.

"I can accept it," Sanders told the Times.

View Park, which was to play for the City title, will not after all. But Coach Corry Thomas understood the decision.

"We didn't have the right to be in the championship," Thomas said. "They have to understand they had their chance."

SPORTS QUIZ

Curt Schilling pitched for what team in the 1993 World Series?

ANSWER

Philadelphia Phillies.

Sports on 03/04/2015

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