How hypocritical for Calvert Hall, St Joe’s and other rich private schools to cry foul. I went to and played football/baseball for a Baltimore public school. The private schools had no problems raiding our cupboards for the best players by offering “academic”scholarships and then kicking the crap out of the crumbs… Read more
I hear you, I’m over in Butcher’s hill. Like 5-10 min from Canton, but half the price. Housing the kids there specifically does kind of send a message. Read more
I was making a comfortable living as a computer programmer, but could not afford to live in Canton, where these ringers are being housed. When I was house hunting it was the fastest selling zip code in the nation. One of my best friends owns a realty company. He listed a house in the morning and had it under contract… Read more
I’m from B’more and played football with Poggi at Gilman. back then, no one was complaining that “those uber smart, but small kids from Gilman” seem to win too much. Yeah, the Baltimore private schools are racist AF (I know, I’m colored) and the Catholic schools mentioned NEVER went into the hood to find a brother who… Read more
Rich people are always happy to play poor people as long as the poor people don’t win. Read more
We live in a world of cowards, who teach kids to run from their problems rather than face them. Make excuses for failure, use lies, and take their ball and go home. I will never be a coach who conforms to this behavior and thought. What are you teaching your student athletes? Read more
Having played in the MIAA Conference for one of the smaller catholic schools back in the day and now as an adult able to understand the politics of it all..... you can’t find me a bucket large enough to hold all this popcorn. The only way it could be better was if the sport in question was lacrosse.
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Do I send my 6th graders football mixtape directly to the coach on twitter or does he have a tryout for tykes in the summer? I need some of that St. Frances money. Read more
Kinda sounds like “waaah all these big black kids are ruining our white football league”. Perhaps Calvert Hall should stick to lacrosse. Read more
I get what he’s doing. Great! He’s giving opportunities to kids to get a high school education at a top notch program with the possibility of college scholarship AND he’s footing the bill! Freaking saint. I also get the Admins that aint messing with him. You wanna recruit and get players from all over the… Read more
Is St Frances the only Catholic school in Baltimore giving “scholarships” to football players? I’m only asking cause every other major American city has more than just one private/parochial school trying to stack their football team by bringing in “poor” athletes from the other side of town. Granted there probably… Read more
It’s amazing Gilman, Boys Latin, McDonogh, Calvert Hall have done this for decades and it’s fine. It is even mentioned in the article he did it for Gilman and there was no issue. However, when black student athletes get the chance to not just excel but dominate now it’s an issue. Btw I went to Poly and we kicked all… Read more
Community building between schools? I’m not sure you’ve ever been to a high school football or basketball game. Read more
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I know it’s just dumb luck, but if the face of the Nats had been Manny Machado and Adam Jones instead of Zimmerman and Harper, there might be a little more buzz around baseball outside Ward 3.
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Assorted remembrances from a Wilson alum: Read more
If the City would not have Given $650 million in public Money to the Nationals for their Stadium; every school could have had a baseball field constructed. But a billionaire needs his Stadium payed for; that way DC can have a Major League baseball team. And it surprised me how many DC Residents I met (usually at road… Read more
My first AB for Wilson as a Deal 9th grader (back when it was still a Junior High) was in a DCIAA game, although I don’t remember against who. It was at Dunbar, but i don’t think it was against Dunbar. Coach Smith, who had also played for Wilson a few years previous, described a game he played in where a van full of… Read more
