Department of Obvious: Male High School Athletes More Likely to Binge Drink and Fight
Fighting, Heavy (Alleged) Drinking, High School Sports November 9th. 2009, 5:45pm
Did we really need a survey to tell us this?
Male high-school athletes are 1.4 times likelier to binge drink and 1.3 times likelier to fight, the survey of 13,000 teens nationwide found. And sports for girls are much more positive. Female teen athletes are less likely to fight, smoke, use pot or feel depressed.
Tomorrow: Chess club less likely to drink and fight; cheerleaders more likely to be hot. And yes, that screengrab is from this memorable high school fight that didn’t involve athletes. [NY Post]
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November 9th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Coming up: Can Bees think?
Next you think you they’ll try to tell us that college kids drink while being underage and have premarital sex. How much money went towards this survey?
November 9th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
someone should have told elizabeth lambert
November 9th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
“looks like were almost out of beer…”
November 9th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
steve phillips likes fat chicks. i will never get tired of that story.
November 9th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
She’s been suspended indefinitely. I would like to see the hell she’s raising at NMU right now. I can see her just going to a sorority house and tearing it apart to release some steam.
November 9th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Also just in: High School stoners less likely to fight.
/quit harshin’ my mellow
November 9th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
all right, all right, all right
November 9th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Has anyone figured out how Pink manages to be friends with the jocks, the stoners and the nerds simultaneously?
November 9th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
she is the kind of girl who would put a strap on just just fucks the shit out of anything that moves…male or female…
November 9th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
she must be painful to sleep with
November 9th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
wasn’t their season over after that loss?
November 9th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
duffy, stay with me here, she’s hot
November 9th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
I think it carries over to the offseason (practices, meetings, etc.) and next season.
November 9th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
she’s hot ebough, but i do not like her music. unfortunately, the wife is into her. too I’m-so-crazy-and-tough
November 9th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Has anyone figured out how Pink manages to be friends with the jocks, the stoners and the nerds simultaneously?
I like that they had a character like that. High school is never completely segregated like the way its usually portrayed in movies/TV. Dudes get that way by just not being a dick and realizing that the more friends you have the better. More importantly, why does TBL spellcheck say that stoners is misspelled? That’s, like totally a word dude.
/I’ll be watching you Newton.
November 9th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
BallzDeep makes a good point, the “cliques” that are portrayed is usually not true.
November 9th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
my experience was that generalizations are true–stoners, jocks, preppies, nerds–and those that floated among them were rare
November 9th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
vezina, he means Randy “Pink” Floyd.
November 9th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
so i’m supposed to read the posts before commenting?
November 9th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
When I was in high school, I was down with the jocks, the nerds, the party animals, the stoners, the kickers, the degenerate graduates trolling for high school tail, the poor kids, the rich kids, the white kids, the brown kids.
Everybody but the girls.
November 9th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Groin: You were right about Lofquist
November 9th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
When I was in high school there were these skinheads who would hang out in the gym during my 6th period P.E. class. Sometimes they’d play basketball. They talked to one of my friends once; I think they handed him some reading material. He said they were nice people.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Pink is hot if you’re at a biker bar drinking jack daniels out of a cereal bowl.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
i tend to avoid girls that have shorter hair than me and can kick my ass
November 9th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Guess I should pay attention too
November 9th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Dirt was popular with the sportos, the motorheads, the geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads. They all adored him. They thought he was a righteous dude.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Yes.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
hahaha
November 9th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
TSH, you;d have nothing to do with that? She’s not my cup of meat facially, but bodywise, hittable in any mood.
the guys in HS that were most interesting were the stoners who were better athletes than the jocks, guys who were gym-class studs, but had no desire or interest in sports. i was a year behind Don Beebe, and a teammate of his in football, and he was one of the state’s fastest guys, but there was a kid who was faster than him and actually did join the track team and smoked Beebe. but he was not a jock
November 9th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
I’m dumbstruck Lefty, so you get that in addition to one point.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
lefty, was that quote off the top of your head? or did you imdb it?
geeky if former, ambitious if latter
November 9th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Sounds like me. I was a fucking beast in badminton.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
dirt: is that the infamous Larry Bud Melman? What is going on behind his head.
/I am fucking terrible at most of these gravatars
November 9th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
What if it’s neither?
/youtube’d it
November 9th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
You’re a KISS fan right jpq?
November 9th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
i tend to avoid girls that have shorter hair than me and can kick my ass
Not me!
“A guy needs a finger jammed up his ass every once in a while”- Winston Churchhill
November 9th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
I ran fools in pickleball.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
You’re a KISS fan right jpq?
not at all, lance. Never got into them
November 9th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
lefty, technologically proficient
November 9th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Apparently Terrence Jones is supposed to make an announcement tonight. Not which school he’s going to commit to, but whether or not he’s going to sign in the early period. That is fucking rediculous. He’s essentially going to make an announcement about when he’s going to make his announcement.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
me and a couple friends in middle school used to do the face paint, use alka seltzer to foam at the mouth and jump out at traffic with God of Thunder or some such classic blaring out the windows
/small town’d
November 9th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Little Giants?
November 9th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
He’s essentially going to make an announcement about when he’s going to make his announcement.
He’ll be well prepared to enter the business world then if his basketball career doesn’t pan out
/lets have a meeting to talk about what was discussed last meeting in order to talk about what was said when we met with the representatives a couple of weeks ago.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
i’m not hip to that, GSG. what is Little Giants?
/not really hip at all
November 9th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
a movie from about 10-12 years ago. Dont worry, it wasn’t a hip reference either haha
November 9th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
ever see The War, with Costner? best lines were from a little guy to a bully–”you ain’t scared are ya, big’un?”
November 9th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Nah never saw it. Was it a good Costner film?
November 9th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
not bad. he’s a guy back from WWII, got a limp and a kid who is making a treehouse that the bullies want to take over. there’s tests of young manhood among the boys, and the little guy is braver than the bully when it comes to doing something dangerous. when the big guy hesitates, the small one says the line, country accent
November 9th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
did you get the burnett stuff?