Real Basketball Moms of Kentucky
Posted Dec 10, 2013
Michelle Green brings a billboard-size poster of her son’s head to his basketball games and has been known to cheer so aggressively that she has been thrown out of the gym. Susie Walker-Byrd has switched her son’s high school three times to accommodate his basketball dreams. Overaggressive parents hollering from the stands have become a cliché of American childhood, but these moms have turned parental cheering into an art form — and, they hope, a business.
(New York Times)
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