Bill Plaschke: Here's a big cheer for Sports Dads
LOS ANGELES_It was just another Sunday in the life of the Sports Dad, a long drive to a musty gymnasium to sit on hard bleachers and cheer his child in a youth league game with a tabletop scoreboard and yawning referees and no end in sight.
Except this time Erick Brennan noticed something odd about his 13-year-old son's Tristan's basketball team.
There were no adults involved in their pregame warmups. There were no adults sitting on their bench. Brennan couldn't find a familiar face with a clipboard or whistle. So he climbed down out of the bleachers of the Seal Beach gym to assess the situation and was immediately questioned by the nervous youngsters.
"Mister, mister, where's our coach?"
He paused, looked
