After a summer in which a travel baseball pitcher was allegedly ordered by his father to throw at the opposing team\u2019s dugout in what was a very troubling incident, we shouldn\u2019t be shocked in the least about what happened at a Pennsylvania youth football game.<\/p>\n
During Saturday\u2019s game in western Pennsylvania, youth coach Dequay Canton of the Carlynton Little Cougars was seen enraged and fighting coaches from Keystone Oaks. In a statement, Canton claimed he was being portrayed by the national media to be the aggressor, but he says racism is what fueled his actions.<\/p>\n
LAWSUIT ALLEGES SOCCER COACH BENCHED TEEN WHO WAS INJURED BY TEAMMATE FOR ALLEGED RACIAL SLUR<\/a><\/p>\n Without providing evidence, Canton claimed<\/a> \u201cour black and brown kids continued to be called an \u2018N,\u2019 and every quarter our kids were called the \u2018N\u2019 word, and we addressed it with the referees, but there was no response.\u201d<\/p>\n Tell us what you\u2019re seeing from the world of youth sports. Email: joe.kinsey@outkick.com<\/p>\n He continued, \u201cIt\u2019s a shame that in 2026, 8-9-year-old kids are calling young black and brown kids the \u2018N.\u2019 It\u2019s even more shameful that their parents, coaches and referees let them do it without correcting them. They would rather fight me for addressing it than correct their kids. That should be the story. Period.\u201d<\/p>\n The Carlynton youth football team followed up Canton\u2019s statement by announcing that the man who recorded the incident, Ryan Crux, has been banned from team football events. Crux\u2019s son plays for the Carlynton team. Crux admitted to Pittsburgh media Tuesday night<\/a> that there was bad blood brewing between him and the coaching staff. It turns out, this video probably helped facilitate a ban.<\/p>\n \u201cMy son has been getting screamed at things like \u2018go get that f\u2013kin ball!\u2019 since he was 6 years old. I don\u2019t speak to my son like that and I don\u2019t want anyone else speaking to him like that,\u201d Crux wrote on Facebook this week. \u201cNow hes 9 years old talking like hes 15 and I blame it all on youth football coaches. I don\u2019t want to hear him speak like that but hes been hearing it from these wack ass coaches for 3 years straight so what f\u2013kin difference does it make now?\u201d<\/p>\n YOUTH SOFTBALL COACH & UMPIRE GET INTO UGLY CONFRONTATION AS EMOTIONS BOIL OVER AT ARKANSAS TOURNAMENT<\/a><\/p>\n By now, none of this should be shocking. It\u2019s business as usual in a world where mom and dad are blowing $260 a weekend<\/a> to attend travel basketball tournaments<\/a>. It\u2019s a world where 11U pitchers are allegedly told to throw a fastball<\/a> at his opponent\u2019s dugout \u2013\u2013 and then the boy obeyed the alleged orders.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a world where a Mississippi sheriff lost his job this summer<\/a> for fighting an umpire<\/a> after a 14U travel baseball game. It\u2019s also a world where a parent is willing to come out on the field to trip a kid<\/a> who\u2019s running towards the end zone.<\/p>\n YOUTH PITCHER LAUNCHES FASTBALL AT OPPOSING DUGOUT AFTER ALLEGED ORDER FROM COACH: \u2018ABSOLUTELY BUSH LEAGUE\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n It\u2019s also a world where, just this week in Ohio, 11 members of a top Cleveland high school football team were charged with theft<\/a> after ripping off $4,500 in merchandise from a Columbus Dick\u2019s while in town for a football game. Two of those charged with the thefts are adults, including one who had committed to a scholarship from D-1 Kent State.<\/p>\n