Richard, To answer your first post, the coach should be penalized from being on the bench for the next game and given a hefty fine. He is a Professional and as such as should conduct himself appropriately. His display of childish tantrums is becoming all too common in the world of sports and it must stop or we are going to reap the benifits of a future generation of whining babies who carry on when things don't go their way. This is not what sportsman like conduct is suppose to be.

For your second story. Get Max the help he needs in any way you can and DON'T let these people continue to be his gaurdians. I would of stepped in immediately and taken the poor fellow to the vet myself. If they resisted my attemps, I would of call animal control. It was a plain and simple case of animal abuse!