How cool would that be for community relations?

FLAG FOOTBALL - Perhaps the YMCA flag football league is the place where former quarterbacks go to decompress. I saw former Cape signal-caller Johnny Howard directing the Hurricane against Plummer’s Welding last Sunday morning, and even though Jon led Cape to a 9-1 record and state tournament appearance, his team couldn’t get past The Welders and so it goes.

The playoffs begin this Sunday with the top two teams getting a bye. I think the title game should be on Cape’s turf field. How cool would that be and good for community relations?

FEAR THE CANNON - A little guy with a toy cannon who makes a loud noise and he’s in charge of an entire school and the ignition device? Last football season I headlined a column “Cape Cancels Central’s Cannon,” a factual recounting of Cape instructing a state policeman to tell Sussex Central Principal Dana Goodman to pack up the cannon or he and said cannon would be thrown out of the stadium. Goodman was asked by host Cape not to bring the cannon but he ignored the request in a direct act of agitation.

Personally, I didn’t go soap box on this issue because cannons, cowbells, ambulance sirens, pirate ships and cartwheeling and back flippers all go with the pageantry. But when Cape went to the slaughterhouse to wrestle at eventual state champion Central, principal Goodman shot off his Hook
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cannon in the hallway outside the gym after each Central pin. That showed me the guy had no sense of sportsmanship toward kids because what adult gets off showing up high school kids?

And now he’s all up in the news because the rule of law says no student can consent to a sexual relationship with a cannon-carrying principal - another rule he ignored. Central is having a great sports year and the question is why didn’t they throw this guy off the boat before all this?

Goodman was charged with 30 counts of rape in the fourth degree.

DEVIL JOBS - A friend of mine some years ago landed the head track coaching job at the Main Line School District of Upper Merion.

I asked him how he got into one of Pennsylvania’s top paying districts and he said, “I got one of the devil jobs.”

An English teacher, Susan Reinert, was murdered and another English teacher, William Bradfield, and principal Jay Smith were charged with her murder. The New York Times reported in 1992 that Smith was released from prison while Bradfield is serving life. The book “Principal Suspect” should be required reading for all school board members. How do the devious and evil intenders get jobs in the first place?

SUMMER CAMPS - Keep telling yourself how much your kid likes going to various camps throughout the summer because I’ll tell you who likes them - it’s the parent. Perhaps attend one sports camp, but not five or six. Then there are those Bible camps that come to the beach and they make weird symbols in the dunes that can be seen from outer space and have happy young white counselors who look like evangelicals in training.

I’d like to run a play all day and drink lemonade and eat hot dogs camp.

Anthropologists suggest allowing kids to form their own games, rules and strategies for getting along with others. No one can fend for themselves anymore and as a result many young athletes take no responsibility for their own mistakes and they lack zest and zeal and do not pursue passion because their life has been programmed by adults.

SNIPPETS - Last Friday, May 2, on the road at Caesar Rodney the Cape varsity softball team lost a 6-0 game to a strong CR team that boosted its record to 11-4 on the season.

The Cape baseball team also lost to the Riders 11-2. Max Coveleski, after being injured in the preseason, returned to the lineup and stroked a double.

The Cape girls soccer team lost at Dover last Thursday 6-0 and Middletown last Saturday 3-0. Cape has been outscored 14 to 0 over the last three games. The Vikings have three starters out with injuries, including star player Rachel Sadowski.

The Golden Panthers of Florida International – I love Golden Panthers - are 17-32 on the season. Tyler Townsend, former Cape power hitter, is currently batting .284 with 13 doubles and eight home runs.

The Duke lacrosse team is currently 15-1 on the season and a favorite to reach the final four and contend for the national title. Josh Coveleski has scored seven goals on the season.

The 1984 Cape mile relay team of Kia Evans, Tania Brown, Bernice Sturgis and Becky Maker won its section with a time of 4:05. Seandra Parson of Cape threw 39 feet at the 1992 Penn Relays, good enough for fifth place.

Anyone with a dumb state email address needs to get rid of it. Hotmail and Yahoo are free and work better and don’t censor your incoming messages. I mean what is up with cape.k12.de.us? All my blog writings to off road school contacts have been blocked and sent to the cyber trash can.

Another email that needs to go is AOL. Trust me on this one.
Go on now homey, gmail!