Sports can bring out the worst in people.

My dad is the athletic director of two schools, the Seattle Hebrew Academy and Northwest Yeshiva High School. He's also the coach of both schools girls basketball teams.

He loves his job. As a kid he was always an amazing athlete, and as he is passionte about kids, he enjoys his positions very much. At dinner, he's always talking about his games and his new plays and about the girls themselves.

But even so, one thing about his job is very rough: The parents.

Before I explain, I have to say that my dad is very into winning. He's so into winning, it's almost to the point of obssession. Winning means EVERYTHING to him.

Since he's always trying to win games, he's always playing his best players...leaving the weaker players out.

Now, not only is this system very detrimental to the girls themselves (I'll talk about that some other time), but it gets parents VERY angry.

"Why isn't my daughter playing?!" parents yell at him. "I payed 200 bucks for my daughter to play, and all she's doing is sitting on the bench!"

And sometimes, with my dad SO focused on winning, things get really out of control.

Once, during a game, one of the weaker girls was sitting, like always, and the parents of this girl totally blew up. They stormed on the court at half time, screaming and shouting at my dad.

Anway, it was so ugly, that the school had to end up calling the police.

Back at home, my dad, distressed about it all, kept on saying under his breath a phrase he had read in one of his coaching books: "Sports doesn't build character, it reveals it." and then, "those parents are aweful people."

What the hell, I wanted to say? You got it totally wrong -- the parents aren't aweful, they were just put in an aweful situation. Sports does NOT reveal character.

SPORTS CAN BRING OUT THE WORST IN PEOPLE.