High School Sports: Grope and Globe Blog

Bostonist first caught wind of the alleged groping incident at Brookline High School on the evening TV news teasers. It appeared in the local newsprint yesterday. We actually were surprises the story didn't get some real estate on the Herald's front page. (Instead Simon Cowell shared top billing with the search for Neil Entwistle, whose wife and daughter were found dead over the weekend.) We learned from both local papers that Jonathon Alsop, the now suspended Brookline High School freshman basketball coach, was also author of In Vino Veritas a syndicated wine column also available on the web. Of note is the Herald’s mention that Alsop wrote for the Globe on occasion, and the Globe’s failure to include that tidbit in its resume round up.

We’re not so much into high school sports. With the Pats season just ending and all-Theo-all-the-time reporting on the Red Sox, we’ve only got mediocre professional hockey and basketball to augment the winter season of college sports. So the trials and tribulations of a freshman basketball coach don’t get Bostonist going unless there is something “extracurricular” involved. The Boston Globe intrigued us when we heard boston.com was starting to feature blogging about high school sports. We’ve been hearing a lot of chatter lately about the inappropriate linking over at the Globe’s online edition and hoped that we’d find some juicy coverage of the Brookline scandal, so we went on over and checked out the new home on the web for Boston area high school sports commentary. Disappointing. Absolutely no inappropriate touching.

Photo courtesy of Legofigs. It's not the awful mug of Alsop that the Herald ran, but we like the expression and basketball attire.