According to Sally Bergesen, there's a Harvey Weinstein-type scandal in T&F???

I hear Joe Bosshard has been sleeping with one of his more successful athletes. I won't name any names though to protect the athlete's privacy.

You just did.

Manny Buff wrote:

i have no idea but wrote:

Had she not used the word 'professional' I would assume that she's talking about college coaches having sex with their female athletes.

Re-directing the subject, quickly... if a college coach sleeps with an athlete, are they always fired? Is it essentially universal athletic department law that a coach is terminated?

I am speaking more in terms of current time, as opposed to previous decades, etc.

I cannot think of a way a college could keep a coach who slept with an athlete.

vivalarepublica wrote:

gidfdac wrote:

Where's exthrower?

Being a miserable troll only lasts so long before you realize the depravity and realize you need to do something else with your time.

Really? At what time might that revelation occur? Don't you know that some people have been doing this vigorously for more than ten years and they are evidently not slowing down. If anything, the opposite.

Depravity is surprisingly pleasurable. You should try it, your wife already has, lol!

Fair enough, but as others have said, she may not want to deal with the cost and risk of a defamation case, even if what she says is truthful. You can look at the Lance Armstrong cases where he sued people for suggesting he was a doper and recovered at least one sizeable settlement - even though he later admitted he actually was doping.

If you are the New York Times, you have the budget and willingness to make thorough investigations like in the Weinstein case and to defend a defamation case. That's probably not true if you're an individual runner or own a smallish women's clothes business.

This is 1000% true and the woman claiming to be a woman is definitely not a woman to me.

There are three women on this board and 2 of them are Sally Bergensen.

1:55 wrote:

880 Coach wrote:

Do you know how many male coaches have had sexual relationships with their female athletes? Many.

Some are now married to them.

They hold a great deal of power over these women and should never be in a sexual relationship with any of them.

This is about sexual assault, not consensual sex.

The ENTIRE ISSUE with having sex with organizationally inferiors is that it inhibits their ability to freely dissent, which therefore inhibits their ability to consent. It is related to the issue of statutory rape.

your president is a groper. dont get why this is a problem in track now

There was a youth coach in Florida recently arrested for molesting his runners. Out of thousands of coaches there are definitely rapists/molesters/predators. And some of them are following this thread.

Except in this scenario you were describing the inferior employee must first consent. Basically you are saying that the Athley first gives consent to having sex with their coach and then is unable to back out of the relationship later

what if the supervisor is the one that wants to end it? What makes you think that the only one sided scenario in this equation would be that the inferior person is the one that would want to dissent?

End of the day, we are still talking about adults. For someone to bring a statutory rape is not a part of this conversation as far as I can tell? Are we not talking about college age or older?

I wonder how, for example, Wellesley College dealt with such things?

[quote]she may not want to deal with the cost and risk of a defamation case, even if what she says is truthful.

Truth is a perfect defense against defamation.

Of course, you've got to be able to prove what you say.

alder brook wrote:

I wonder how, for example, Wellesley College dealt with such things?

Ask Ohio State

Just another "man-HATING" PR statement. Trying to get attention so that she can sell her stuff...strengthen her brand

Well played, player!

880 Coach wrote:

Because, "Players only love you when they're playin"

Dick Tater wrote:

Time to implement what we'll call the Bergesen rule: If you have something to say, say it.

Bergesen and fellow Oisellers Fleshman and Goucher are always doing this if-you-knew-what-I-knew hinty BS. If you're so brave and bold and unafraid of The Man, just act on what you know, and then feel free to tell us about it. Don't introduce hazy accusations and then clam up when people ask for specifics. And don't backpedal on how you were misinterpreted when people ask that you offer up the goods or shut up.

Those two are delusional attention seekers. Fleshman recently tweeted how terrible it is to live in these times where we suffer from a tyranny of the minority over the majority (veiled reference to Trump). She must have been absent those days during her secondary education when the foundations of the US Constitution was covered. She forgot to mention the founders were as concerned about tyranny of the majority over the minority as the other way around. Our electoral system takes geography into consideration, not just raw votes. If people like Fleshman can't or won't understand that concept they should move to Zimbabwe.

She apparently deleted that tweet the next day. Wisely so.

Fleshman's tweets are always designed to get other women to rally for her. Nothing wrong with this concept, but most of them are just plain hateful.

She is a "has-been" that can only get support by tweeting controversial statements. This is soooo old. She should just move on with her life. You are no longer a popular runner. Move on!