April 02, 2008

O'Hara Holds Creepiest Assembly Ever

Here, CBS 3 news anchor Larry Mendte introducing a class assembly I never had at my Catholic high school: A fake drunk driving accident!

Yes, administrators at Cardinal O'Hara decided to hold a pretend car crash to show students the perils of drunk driving; the students no doubt responded by saying it was only deadly (well, pretend deadly) because they staged it that way.

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July 30, 2007

NBA Pointshaving Biggest Catholic Scandal Ever

Although I've just been making fun of his Villanova background in my coverage of alleged corrupt NBA ref Tim Donaghy (right, during his career missing the foreign object in "Macho Man" Randy Savage's tights), the shame he's inflicting on institutions goes far beyond the Main Line. Or, rather, it also goes to Cardinal O'Hara, who the Inquirer says has been "hit hard" by the referee scandal.

Donaghy isn't just a mid-1980s O'Hara grad, he also met (alleged, I guess) Phoenixville bookie James "Baa Baa" Battista in high school, who federal investigators also contacted in regards to the NBA scandal. Tim and Baa Baa are apparently bringing down the name of their alma mater:

Some O'Hara graduates, not surprisingly, are unhappy with the negative publicity the story has brought to the 44-year-old Catholic high school, which also produced three other NBA referees. "I think it does a disservice to my alma mater to allow the alleged misdeeds of one person [to] blacken the reputation of a school which has nothing to do with this scandal," said Rosemary Connors, an O'Hara graduate from Broomall.

Oh, see, here I thought Donaghy was accused of fixing O'Hara games in exchange for molesting tips from Philadelphia Archdiocese priests. Whoops, my fault!

O'Hara hit hard by NBA referee scandal [Inquirer]

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