Sidebar
Special shoutout to boy genius Jonathan Levenson for publicly
admitting on Facebook that he was the one who vandalized the bus. Real smart
move there, tough guy.
I may have strayed from the actual game in
my article (just a little bit), so here’s a recap. Lisagna was on fire from
three, knocking down shot after shot. Phil would have been proud. Dempsey went
hard in the paint, balling up some fools. Yu straight up Harlem Globetrotter’d
some dweeb from La Jolla. Catch his sweet handles on the next AND1 Mixtape Tour
video. Woodley had some clutch boards and shots, and Sahil knocked them down
when we needed them most. It was a total team effort, with everyone playing
solid basketball, including Cullen and his sophomore girl entourage, and the
young Steph Curry. Overall a great game. Congrats to the Bucket Squad.
Articles
Bright Futures
By: Dan Forssman
I came home yesterday, stoked after the Mens Basketball
team pulled off a big win against La Jolla High. Of course there was the
regular trash-talking back and forth, especially coming from their side. The
classic “daddy’s money” chant, even though a good amount of people at Bishop’s
are on scholarship and/or have parents that work exceptionally hard in order to
provide such an amazing education for their children. Which, if you think about
it, is even more ironic because every kid that goes to La Jolla High has to
live in one of the wealthiest zip codes in the world just to attend the school.
But we can deal with that.
We can deal with them yelling expletives out their car
windows as they drive by after losing to us. “Play football, faggots,” was one
of the phrases I heard, walking back to my car. No class or respect, but we can
deal with teenagers who rely on homophobic slurs in order to get a slight
masculinity boost or some brownie points with their super cool friends.
We can deal with them crashing Bishop’s parties and
starting fights. We can deal with them being intentionally obnoxious, hurtful,
and violent whenever they come into contact with Bishop’s kids. We can deal
with that.
I’ve said my fair share of jokes about the “groms,” as we
like to call them. As have most people. But never really in a malicious manner.
At Bishop’s, even when our comments border inappropriate or uncalled for, they
come from a good place. We live for the rivalries, for the close games that get
heated with opponents we know all too well. We merely want our classmates to
succeed, and this drives us to get excited, to get “hyphy.” Sometimes games get
a little too heated, but hey – we can deal with that.
I came home last night, stoked after the win. But my mood
immediately changed when I checked my messages. A friend sent me a picture of
one of our school buses. The word “Fuck” was spray-painted next to “The
Bishop’s School,” along with “LJHS” and a poorly drawn penis underneath.
This really pissed me off. It showed me where the La
Jolla High kids are coming from – a place of hatred. They legitimately hate us,
maybe because of the cars we drive or the opportunities we have. But whatever
the case, they hate us for foolish reasons, choosing to display their hatred in
malicious ways. At games, they don’t cheer on their classmates. They only boo
Bishop’s fans. They don’t want to win. They want us to lose, to fail.
I’m not overreacting. I didn’t have a Catcher in the Rye moment and lose my
innocence from seeing the f-word. I’ve seen it before, and I’ve heard the
phrase “Fuck Bishop’s” before too, on numerous occasions. But when you make it
tangible, when you vandalize our school’s property, you take it a step too far.
You not only show that you have absolutely no class or sportsmanship, but you
also show that you’re so adamant about your (unjustified) hatred of Bishop’s
that you are willing to risk getting into a bunch of trouble just to make such
a stupid and immature statement. Though I’m not sure what you were going for by
drawing male genitalia on a bus.
La Jolla High loses to us so often that I would have
thought they would have learned to do it with class by now. But I guess you
can’t teach an old grom new tricks.
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