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Boys’ basketball: Coaches beware of critical Twitter comments

EL SEGUNDO, CA-AUGUST 14, 2019: Eric Sondheimer, Prep Sports Columnist, Los Angeles Times
By Eric Sondheimer
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A high school basketball coach in Kentucky has been reprimanded for critical comments about a referee he made on Twitter.

Jeffersontown Coach Jeff Morrow criticized an official’s call on Twitter, and the Kentucky High School Athletic Assn. fined the basketball program $1,500, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.

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Morrow also loses coaching box privileges for three games.

Welcome to the ramifications of social media.

-- Eric Sondheimer

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Eric Sondheimer

Eric Sondheimer is the prep sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He has been honored seven times by the California Prep Sportswriters Assn. for best prep sports column.

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