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Aside from its obvious benefits, organized sports also has the potential to teach kids very difficult lessons?as the Atlee Junior League Softball Team from Mechanicsville, Virginia learned in their recent run at the Junior League World Series in Washington.
Before the series, one member of the team posted a rude Snapchat picture of six of the players, who range age from 12 to 14 years old, sticking up their middle fingers with the caption: ?Watch out host.? And it was this photo that caused the team?s disqualification from their game?a game that they’d already won 1-0, after the other team cheated. Despite the apologies from the girls to their rivals and an apology from Atlee manager Scott Currie, the Little League International Tournament Committee removed the team from the series.
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