Bad Sport: A Grab Bag of Parents From Hell

Parenthood, or so we hear, is full of a kind of transcendent joy,
the kind you can only experience by watching your offspring learn
and grow. That is, when they’re not making you want to hop in the
car and keep driving until you run out of road. There are some ups
and downs, for sure. But you’ll hardly ever find a parent who
wouldn’t do almost anything for their kids. Notice we said “almost”
anything. Because there have to be limits, right? Well…for the
parents in today’s story, not so much. First we have Texas mom
Wanda Holloway, who in 1990 tried to hire a hit man to take out her
daughter's cheerleading rivals. Then we have French dad Christophe
Fauviau, who dosed his kids' tennis opponents to make sure his
little angels won every match.

Sources:
Texas Monthly, Mimi Swartz:
https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/the-cheerleader-murder-plot/

ABC News:
https://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=1680047&page=1

https://www.wistv.com/story/4609148/eight-years-in-prison-for-dad-who-drugged-his-kids-tennis-rivals/

The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/mar/01/france.mainsection

Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2006/03/04/for-french-tennis-dad-deadly-obsession-to-win/2b80701d-a3fe-442c-a72d-08f858f9eee5/


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