Little League strips Chicago team of national title

[Da Coach]

The Little League has officially stripped the Jackie Robinson West Little League team that won the US championship at last summer's Little League World Series for cheating-

http://espn.go.com/chicago/story/_/id/12308988/little-league-strips-chicago-team-us-championship-suspends-coach

The organization found that the Jackie Robinson team used a falsified boundary map, and that team officials met with neighboring Little League districts in Illinois to claim players and build what amounts to a superteam.

As a result, the United States championship has been awarded to Mountain Ridge Little League from Las Vegas.

"Little League takes these matters very seriously and has spent countless hours gathering information about the many issues facing Jackie Robinson West Little League and Illinois District 4," Keener said. "During our review, it became clear that both Jackie Robinson West officials and District Administrator, Mike Kelly signed documents to make players eligible who should not have been."

[Chico]

Sad. I was in a local pub watching the championship game and you would have thought the Cards or Cubs were playing the fans were cheering so loud for this team.

[tornado]

what's also interesting in all of this - that as a result of their cheating and their Little League wins,
the coaches & players also received a lot of other awards and recognition....

so do they have to pay back the City of Chicago for the million dollar parade? LINK LINK
and does the President owe the nation an apology? - LINK
They owe CUBS & SOX fans an apology?

But now it's sad for the kids who go from being superstars to being hounded all their lives by nosey media who will pry for answers about their disgraced championship. Some in the media can indeed be cruel.

[Chico]

Don't expect any of this to happen. BO won't touch this one with a ten foot pole. Don't cheat and the media won't have a reason to be "cruel".

[wily coyote]

Oh I'm just shocked.

[LongTimeFan]

I guess I am just more interested in what is now happening at Bradley with the BOT.

[Chico]

Might teach these kids a valuable lesson. Don't cheat. Can't tell me that not one kid on that roster knew some players were playing out of their district. See where rev jackson is playing the race card. Figures.

[tornado]

... See where rev jackson is playing the race card. Figures.

this mystifies me...
the whole story is sad, the kids are somewhat the victims, although as you said many had to know they were cheating by crossing boundaries and recruiting kids outside their district...

but now we have Jesse Jackson defending the indefensible and whining about the cheaters getting caught.

Don't even reasonable people - even minorities get sick and tired of the race-baiters blaming everything on racism?

http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/12/jesse-jackson-jackie-robinson-wests-punishment-is-inappropriate-and-racist/

[tornado]

like the bunch of spoiled children that all these folks are...now they've taken this to the next logical demanding step...
they have hired lawyers and are SUING
not just suing Little League to get their cheating title back - but also going personally after the guy who blew the whistle on their cheating

and of course they claim they were specifically discriminated against and treated unfairly.

http://www.pjstar.com/article/20150624/SPORTS/150629605/11130/SPORTS?rssfeed=true&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

http://www.sbnation.com/2015/6/24/8831551/little-league-big-trouble

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/29398644/jrw-taking-steps-to-get-national-title-back

[tornado]

the Jackie Robinson folks called a press conference to announce their lawsuit..
but banned press members who had reported they had lied...

http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20150624/west-pullman/reporter-barred-from-jackie-robinson-press-conference-still-has-questions

[Chico]

the Jackie Robinson folks called a press conference to announce their lawsuit..
but banned press members who had reported they had lied...
http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20150...-has-questions

Yeah, don't tell the truth.

[tornado]

yeah - as if the 11 & 12 year old kids who played their hearts out haven't been embarrassed and humiliated enough on the NATIONAL stage by those clowns running the program.... now this...

[Chico]

yeah - as if the 11 & 12 year old kids who played their hearts out haven't been embarrassed and humiliated enough on the NATIONAL stage by those clowns running the program.... now this...

No matter how old they are, if they knew they were cheating they should be humiliated.

[tornado]

more interesting news on the Little League scandal
they used their fame & stardom to lure contributions - big time - $300,000
Their cash reserves have increased almost 40-fold - but now the team has left the Jackie Robinson West Little League organization

http://www.pjstar.com/article/20150824/SPORTS/150829707/11130/SPORTS?rssfeed=true&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

[AZ BU Fan]

If they donate $150,000 to the Bill & Hillary slush fund, I mean, Clinton Charitable Foundation, and $25,000 to the Prez Obama Library in Chicago, Loretta Lynch will pardon them and restore the LL WS title... They were disadvantaged poor inner city kids harmed by racism who could use the boost to their self esteem.