Middlesex League's Basketball Discontinues Doubleheader Scheduling Format Due to Lexington AD's Email
A Lexington parent caught most of the blame, but it was a now-suspended AD’s doctored email that spurred the Middlesex League’s Title IX-driven decision to discontinue its doubleheader scheduling format for boys and girls basketball.
The story went something like this: A Lexington parent was threatening to sue, so the Middlesex League deep-sixed its doubleheader scheduling format, which had been in place since the mid-1990s. (Reading Memorial High School is part of the Middlesex League.) That was the yarn spun at the start of the 2012-2013 basketball season. It was fodder for players, parents, fans and bystanders alike, and got picked up by multiple local media outlets, including Patch. Most likely, it was reported that way because that’s how the coaches and athletic directors told it to reporters and editors. And most likely that’s how they told the story because that’s how they heard it themselves. Except only that’s not how it went down. It’s true that Lexington …
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Jason Fields
2:35 pm on Thursday, January 24, 2013
This was a case of moonbat on moonbat crime. I am just surprised that the Lex AD doesn’t have a hyphenated last name. Bottomline is that regardless of whether Ms. Robb threatened a lawsuit or bad publicity it was going to come eventually from her anyway. Having the girls play the later game doesn’t help the girls game at all just ask the players or coaches. But Ms. Robb doesn’t care about that, … more ›