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kids' football team hit with bounty scandal
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California kids' football team hit with bounty scandal
TUSTIN, Calif. - In a pee-wee version of the NFL's bounty scandal, the head coach and league president of an Orange County children's football team have been suspended amid allegations that players were offered cash to knock opponents out of games.
National Pop Warner officials suspended Darren Crawford of the Tustin Pee Wee Red Cobras and Tustin President Pat Galentine until the program can investigate and rule on the allegations, according to the Orange County Register.
The investigation is expected to take at least several weeks, Pop Warner spokesman Josh Pruce said.
The Cobras, consisting mainly of 10- and 11-year-olds, advanced to the Pop Warner Super Bowl last year and finished the season with a 12-1 record.
A group of parents alleged that during the season, Crawford and a then-assistant coach, Richard Bowman, offered youngsters cash for big hits and to knock opposing players out of playoff games.
One boy left a game because of a mild concussion and another former assistant coach, John Zanelli, claims the player that hit him was rewarded with cash.
Crawford, Bowman and Galentine consistently have denied that any cash incentives were paid and Pop Warner's Orange Empire Conference commissioner, Bobby Espinosa, found no evidence of a bounty program during a local investigation earlier this year, the Register reported.
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TUSTIN, Calif. - In a pee-wee version of the NFL's bounty scandal, the head coach and league president of an Orange County children's football team have been suspended amid allegations that players were offered cash to knock opponents out of games.
National Pop Warner officials suspended Darren Crawford of the Tustin Pee Wee Red Cobras and Tustin President Pat Galentine until the program can investigate and rule on the allegations, according to the Orange County Register.
The investigation is expected to take at least several weeks, Pop Warner spokesman Josh Pruce said.
The Cobras, consisting mainly of 10- and 11-year-olds, advanced to the Pop Warner Super Bowl last year and finished the season with a 12-1 record.
A group of parents alleged that during the season, Crawford and a then-assistant coach, Richard Bowman, offered youngsters cash for big hits and to knock opposing players out of playoff games.
One boy left a game because of a mild concussion and another former assistant coach, John Zanelli, claims the player that hit him was rewarded with cash.
Crawford, Bowman and Galentine consistently have denied that any cash incentives were paid and Pop Warner's Orange Empire Conference commissioner, Bobby Espinosa, found no evidence of a bounty program during a local investigation earlier this year, the Register reported.
http://tiny.cc/jdielw
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