Seattlest: Misfortune of High School Tennis Coach: One of the Twelve People Who Still Read the Weekly Is His Boss

max

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:33:34 -0800

Actually, with "talker" stories like this one, more people seem to be reading the Weekly lately.

G

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:51:27 -0800

FYI it's "Intents and Purposes"

Former Freelancer

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:11:00 -0800

Years ago, I used to write occasional features for the arts/culture section of the weekly. Mark Fefer, the then-arts editor, was ALWAYS pushing to make my articles more salacious ... now that he's editor in chief, this kind of thing is totally unsurprising.

Jon

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:10:53 -0800

Got to agree with infrequent. But then again, I remember my HS tennis coach and he was a pretty goofy individual as well.

infrequent

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:02:52 -0800

also... what a non-story (until the firing). at least the bad news bears won in the end. or almost won.

Trotter

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:23:55 -0800

As soon as I saw the headline and skimmed to find out what it was about, I realized that the coach was, for all intensive purposes, fucked.

infrequent

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:22:46 -0800

reading that story made me dislike everyone involved.

Mike

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:40:21 -0800

Oh, I agree with that. I get the feeling if anyone had complained privately, he'd have gotten a warning -- but since it blew up in a paper, it was much more embarrassing to the school's administration.

Seth

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:34:08 -0800

Agreed--definitely inappropriate. But if you're going to write an article about a high school coach who behaves inappropriately towards his players, do that. If you are going to write a non-salacious article--in fact, a quite thoughtful and interesting article--don't throw in the inappropriateness just to give yourself a salacious lead.

Mike

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:27:45 -0800

I read that part about his poetry in disbelief. It seemed a *tiny* bit inappropriate -- outside of an actual poetry class, you know, where it could be delivered in a stultifying monotone and actually help turn teenagers off sex entirely. How often does this have to happen before crappy writers of erotic poetry get a clue? http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2625

Matt

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:32:48 -0800

Funny, I didn't read the article specifically because of the lead details. Come to think of it, I think I read every other article in the Weekly that day (I hadn't brought anything to read on the bus).