It only gets better ....

Mom sues Little League Coach For Not Teaching Son to Slide Properly

• One player on your team makes contact with the ball and it looks like an easy single, maybe a double, so what do you do? Well, of course, the first base coach tells the kid to go for two and as he approaches second everyone yells "slide!" Which the 12-year-old does . . . badly and injuries his leg. So what does the boy's mom do THREE YEARS LATER? Sue the coach and the local Little League, that's what, claiming that no one taught her boy the "skills needed to avoid and/or minimize the risks of injury," specifically: how to run bases and slide. This, despite the fact that the bases are made of foam. And you wonder why no one wants to coach youth/hs sports anymore? (NY Post)

If at First You Don't Succeed . .

• A Wisconsin woman is in jail after being accused of slapping the coach of her son's basketball team. Actually, the slapping part initially got her a warning not to return to the recreation center where the initial confrontation took place. But guess what she did anyway? Cops returned to the scene of the crime and arrested Alyssa Streiff, 30, and cited on suspicion of disorderly conduct. (Channel 3000)

Youth Football Coach Grabs Player's Helmet

• Parents Claim That Type of Public Embarrassment's Worth a Cool $1 Million - The parents of Ricky DeMann, 9, admit their son was not injured in the incident last September in Mason, Ohio, but HE COULD have sustained serious neck injuries. Ricky's helpful parents allegedly caught the incident on camera and decided to help his fragile self-esteem by posting the clip of the visibly upset kid on YouTube. The clip appears to show the coach lift the boy off the ground slightly as he tries to run off the field, but it's hard to tell if he has a hold of the face mask or the kid's jersey. Now mom and dad say that because Coach Darrell Boreing and the Mason Youth Football Organization did not apologize for the incident, they think they owe them a cool one million dollars: Because their boy COULD have been injured. He wasn't, but he COULD have been. Bobby Knight would probably be rolling over in his grave right now if he was dead. (NewsNet5)