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Sports Dad
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The "Sports Dad" is a father who pressures his children to succeed in sports or other physical (or "manly" if he has sons) activities. While parents of this archetype are usually male, coach/sports moms do exist. The Sports Dad is often the father of the Jerk Jock; if so, he'll probably be a Jerkass himself. If the Coach Dad is the father of a Lovable Jock, he'll probably be more sympathetic. The father might be a former Jerk Jock himself who is living vicariously through his son. There are also more extreme versions of the trope who pressure their sons into fighting or hunting. Considering how scarring it might be to be pressured into fighting or killing, these dads can be viewed as abusive. Woe be unto any nerd who has a father like this, especially if the dad wants him to fight his bullies. See Jock Dad, Nerd Son. Related to Education Mama, for a parent that pushes their child at academics and Stage Mom for one that does the same with acting, singing, and other performance arts. See also "Gender-Normative Parent" Plot for when people around a boy (usually the father) wants him to do a sport or something considered "masculine" while the boy wants to pursue something that's stereotyped as being feminine. |
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In one episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a young hockey player accidentally kills his teammate during a hazing gone wrong. It turns out the hazing was carried out under the orders of the player's overbearing and abusive father; the kid didn't want to do it, but was afraid of what his father would do if he disobeyed. In the end, the father ends up being held partially responsible for the other child's death, while the boy gets a reduced sentence in exchange for testifying against his father. | |
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As documented by King Richard, Richard Williams was a downplayed case, as he sure pushed daughters Venus and Serena towards the court from a very young age, resulting in two of the greatest players to ever hold a racket. But he very much wanted them to be successful outside tennis too, even pulling them out of junior tournaments until they finished school. | |
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Viz did a one-off titled Larry Ladd And His Ambitious Dad - the first two activities into which the titular Larry Ladd is pushed by his father are boxing and ice-skating. | |
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Lil Peep had a very difficult relationship with his estranged father, which his mother speculated was partly related to the dad viewing his relationship with his kids mostly through the lens of being their sports coach. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Bart Star", Springfield starts up a sports league after finding the young boys in town are overweight. After a series of events, Homer becomes the coach and discourages and insults Bart while putting him through Training from Hell. Homer eventually realizes his own father never acknowledged him either, so he amends his behavior and becomes overbearingly supportive of Bart and has him replace Nelson as quarterback, despite Bart being a terrible player and the rest of the team despising him for it. In a later episode, there is even an in-universe video game titled "Hockey Dad", in which two such fathers brawl, Blades Of Steel-style, under the winner's son comes to prevent further legal repercussions. |
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Hannah Swensen: Featured in book 2 (Strawberry Shortcake Murder), in the form of Mason Kimball. He forced his son Craig to use a new form of steroid to increase his muscles and proficiency at basketball, and when Craig confessed the truth to his coach Boyd Watson and Boyd was ready to suspend Craig from the team, Mason killed Boyd to prevent it. | |
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In the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Ezekiel", Shake forces his son Ezekiel to play basketball and tennis in an attempt to make him a sports star, constantly berating him when Ezekiel shows no talent or interest in it, and tries to commit suicide to make him feel guilty. When he finds out Ezekiel is so skilled in chess that he beat the Chess Dragon, Shake shows pride in him and plans on taking him to the Olympic committee. (Shake's not very smart and doesn't know chess isn't an Olympic sport anymore.) That's when Frylock tells him not only is Ezekiel not his son, he's actually older than Shake. | |
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In RWBY fanfiction, this is pretty common when authors expand more on Pyrrha's backstory. at least it was here: Pyrrha's biological mom made it clear that nothing Pyrrha did was ever good enough, always pushing her to be better. The only time she ever said "I'm proud of you" was when Pyrrha got on the cover of Sports Illustrated at an improbably young age. Pyrrha's step-mom was a bit better, but could only do so much to counteract her wife's problems. RWBY: Scars: Pyrrha's mother Thetis is a "sports mom". Pyrrha went to Beacon, instead of the closer Haven, to get away from her mother. Pyrrha's mother had wanted to be the Mistral Regional Tournament Champion but couldn't, so she pushed Pyrrha to achieve her dream for her. But, no matter how well she did, Pyrrha was never good enough for her mother. Even after holding the title for several years, her mother still wasn't happy. Pyrrha decided to get away from her mother and put her fighting skills to practical use by helping others as a Huntress, so she enrolled in Beacon Academy. White Sheep (RWBY): Variant. Pyrrha's parents were always supportive of absolutely everything she did. However, the extended family, missing the fame and riches they used to have, always pushed Pyrrha to be better, to compete in bigger tournaments, and to earn more honor for the family. Pyrrha eventually broke down under the pressure, which horrified her parents. They decided to send Pyrrha to Beacon Academy, far away from the family's influence, by telling the family it was a way to expand her fame. Pyrrha was able to find real friends and have a normal life without legions of fans following her everywhere. |
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Varsity Blues: The film provides the page quote. Mox's father believes playing for the West Canaan Coyotes football team is the opportunity of a lifetime, which creates a lot of conflict with Mox as he considers the sport to be a hobby as he prepares for attending Brown University and getting away from their small town once he graduates high school. | |
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The Catcher: Johnny's father obsessively drives his son towards perfection in baseball. Johnny eventually snaps and beats him to death with a baseball bat. | |
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A pair of Sports Parents show up on Corner Gas. After a high school kid shows great talent and passion for cooking while job shadowing Lacey at the Ruby, his parents show up. Lacey expects to be praised for helping their son find what is obviously his true calling but instead, they are furious with her because they planned for him to become a pro hockey player when he grows up, but now he wants to be a chef instead. | |
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Troy of High School Musical has a father who is also his basketball coach. He's a less exaggerated example, but he's clearly suffering from his own high school basketball failures. However, Troy is a Lovable Jock and his father comes to realize how much pressure he is putting on his son. | |
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Andy's father in The Breakfast Club is hinted to be one of these, judging by his son's tear-filled rant to the other kids about how he has "to be number one!" | |
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Stargirl (2020) has Larry Crock, a middle-aged man who runs Blue Valley's local gym and who's daughter is the Blue Valley High Football quarterback. Considering the eventual reveal in episode six that he used to be the sports-themed supervillain Sportsmaster (and subsequently comes out of retirement), it's very likely that the choice for her to join the team was mainly his choice. However, this is mainly fan speculation. | |
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King of the Hill: Hank Hill, who tries to push Bobby into sports despite him not being good at it. Hank later accepts this. | |
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In Frankenweenie, Victor's dad wants him to try a sport and randomly picks baseball. While Victor is playing baseball, Sparky chases a ball onto the road, being hit by a car and dying, which is what starts the plot. | |
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Robin (1993): Jack wants Tim to play football. Tim hates football, to the point that he doesn't even like watching it. At one point Tim responded to his dad asking him why he got home late by saying he stayed late because of football tryouts, never saying he tried out. If his dad knew the first thing about his son he might have thought he was taking photos, instead when Jack learns the football coach doesn't remember Tim trying out Jack tears apart Tim's room, destroying Tim's possessions, breaking the drywall and forcing Dana to go through Tim's computer for him. He discovers the hidden Robin suit in the walls of the closet and summarily goes to Wayne manor to threaten Bruce with a gun. | |
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White Wolves II: Legend of the Wild: Crystal's parents wanted her to be an Olympic swimmer and tossed her into a pool to try to make her learn to swim while she was still a baby. Her dad is apparently fond of re-telling the story. | |
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This is invoked and lampshaded on 3rd Rock from the Sun when Dick decides Tommy should play basketball: | |
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One MAD article, showing some children playing sports, points to parents trying to live vicariously through their children. Another article in late 2012 parodied this by giving "guidelines" for pageant moms to follow. | |
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In Kicking & Screaming, family man Phil Weston, a lifelong victim of his father's competitive nature, takes on the coaching duties of a kids' soccer team, and soon finds that he's also taking on his father's dysfunctional way of relating. | |
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Willie Watt from Batman Beyond has a father who pressures him into fighting the guys who are bullying him. He ends up snapping and sending a giant remote-controlled robot after his tormentors and, later, after his own father. | |
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Twice in a Lifetime, episode Curveball. In this episode, the father was pressuring the son to be as good as possible in baseball, while boasting his success back in high school. For this episode, the teenage son gets the early episode death, and is sent back — witnessing his father's younger self flub that swing. | |
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Batman: As a kid, Martin Mantle, Jr. was not interested in sports, which annoyed his father, who was a notorious scientist. Mr. Mantle developed a serum to improve his son's stamina and physical abilities and he used it against Martin's will. When his mother learned of this, she and Martin abandoned Mr. Mantle and moved away. Martin grew up and the effects of his father's serum became notorious when he became a top athlete. After getting his engineering degree, Martin's health started to deteriorate and the doctors diagnosed him with a deadly disease, which was caused by his father's serum. Seeking revenge against society, Martin adopted the costumed identity of Sportsman and started killing top sports personalities. | |
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Russ Thompson Senior in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (the next door neighbour to Moranis' character) really wants his son to be more masculine and athletic, and his son is afraid to tell him he quit the high school football team. He gets over it after going through Character Development when his son goes missing (having been shrunk). | |
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In Jump In!, Izzy's father used to be a boxer, and pushes Izzy into boxing as well. For his dad's sake, Izzy pretends to be enjoying himself, but has lost interest in boxing by the time the movie began, and later points out that it's the only thing the two of them talk about ever since his mother passed away. | |
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In Lily and Dunkin, Jerk Jock Vasquez' Freudian Excuse is that his dad screams at him in front of his basketball teammates when he doesn't play well enough. | |
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In Billy Elliot, Billy's father, Jackie, tries to push him into sports by sending Billy to the gym to take up boxing even though he prefers ballet. However, later in the film, Jackie realizes how talented Billy is at ballet and decides to support his dreams. | |
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Came up repeatedly on Law & Order: Ben Stone describes his father this way, in addition to being an Alcoholic Parent. In a case involving a Stage Mom, Mike Logan compared her to the father of a childhood friend, who got way too invested in their little league games. One episode featured a young tennis phenom, whose father fit this trope. She hired a thug to break her wrist so she could have an excuse to quit. Another episode featured a father who killed his son's hockey league coach for not giving his son enough time on the ice. |
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Daria: Kevin's father is ridiculously proud of the fact that Kevin is the quarterback of his high-school football team, and doesn't care that Kevin is in danger of flunking all of his classes. | |
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In Butterfly, Janet's adoptive mother is more concerned about her doing ballet, herself being wheelchair-bound. | |
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Big City Greens Has Russel Remington, a former football player with everything to show for it including his own videogame, a huge mansion and a helicopter he uses for transportation. Shortly after his son Remy was born he was eager to toss him a football and fully expected him to share the same passion for the sport. He serves as much kinder example in that after he discovers that Remy only pretended to like football to impress him, He apologizes and expresses that he's proud of Remy. | |
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The Simpsons: Team L.A.S.H.: Mr. Burns in "A Liv of Their Own". To relive his days as a college football star, he pushes Anastasia to her absolute limit as a gymnast, to the point where she's utterly drained. | |
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Henry "the Duke" Duke of The Intimates didn't want to play football (he prefers golf), but his dad made him. He's not so sure he wants to be a superhero either (he's more into space travel), but his dad doesn't want to hear it. | |
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White Sheep (RWBY): Variant. Pyrrha's parents were always supportive of absolutely everything she did. However, the extended family, missing the fame and riches they used to have, always pushed Pyrrha to be better, to compete in bigger tournaments, and to earn more honor for the family. Pyrrha eventually broke down under the pressure, which horrified her parents. They decided to send Pyrrha to Beacon Academy, far away from the family's influence, by telling the family it was a way to expand her fame. Pyrrha was able to find real friends and have a normal life without legions of fans following her everywhere. | |
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Waves: Tyler's father pushes him into weightlifting and wrestling, and is unable to see the stress it's putting on him. It becomes one of many factors leading him down the path of drug abuse and domestic violence. | |
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Friday Night Lights: With a show that revolves around athletes, there are several. Coach Taylor says his dad was this type of sports father. Eric actually expresses relief that he has daughters so they don't have to deal with the pressure of being "The Coach's Son". JD McCoy is a freshman phenom with a wildly overbearing dad. He's being groomed to be a future NFL star quarterback and his father forbids him to do things like drink soda, watch TV, or date. The one time JD shows signs of acting like a teenager, his father literally slaps him, forcing the coaches to intervene. Eventually, JD crumbles under the pressure. Averted with Smash Williams' mother Corrina. Smash puts a lot of pressure on himself, wanting to use football as a way to a better future where he can provide for himself and his family. Corrina constantly reminds him that the goal is to have fun and get a good education. The only time she gets really upset with Smash regarding football is when she finds out he's been secretly using steroids to improve his scholarship chances. Buddy Garrity is a sports dad but it's played for comedy. A former football player himself, he is head of the boosters, number one fan for the Dillon Panthers even though he doesn't have a kid on the team. He's concerned about the Panthers even as he's been kicked out of the house and his wife is filing for divorce. He is ecstatic when Buddy Jr. tries out and then becomes guardian of a potential player when Buddy doesn't work out. |
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RWBY: Scars: Pyrrha's mother Thetis is a "sports mom". Pyrrha went to Beacon, instead of the closer Haven, to get away from her mother. Pyrrha's mother had wanted to be the Mistral Regional Tournament Champion but couldn't, so she pushed Pyrrha to achieve her dream for her. But, no matter how well she did, Pyrrha was never good enough for her mother. Even after holding the title for several years, her mother still wasn't happy. Pyrrha decided to get away from her mother and put her fighting skills to practical use by helping others as a Huntress, so she enrolled in Beacon Academy. | |
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In Future GPX Cyber Formula ZERO, Henri Claytor's father was a former race driver who trained his son to be one and wants him to be the youngest champion in Cyber Formula. When that doesn’t happen and Hayato Kazami gets that title instead, his father becomes an alcoholic and started to abuse and ignore him. This leads Henri to hate Hayato for taking what he thinks is his. After some lecturing from Osamu and then Hayato, he starts realizing what he has become due to his father's training and starts seeing Hayato as the father he wishes he had. | |
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Jigoro from Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl is a sports grandfather. He has decided that his granddaughter Yawara will win the 1992 Barcelona gold medal in women's judo, and the National Achievement Award, and the fact that Yawara doesn't care one bit for judo at the beginning of the series simply doesn't enter into his mind. | |
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Eiji Sawakita's father, Tetsuharu, in Slam Dunk looks like this a little, but he's actually an aversion since he does truly care for Eiji. While he does want his son to grow as a player, he realizes that constantly playing one-on-ones with him wouldn't give him any room for growth even though it meant he was already a natural when joining the Sannoh basketball team, so even though he suggests to the team's coach that Eiji go to the USA to get a more varied playing experience, it ends up being just a suggestion, as he knows Eiji loves the sport and wants him to evolve at his own pace. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Frank pushes Greg into signing up for sports like soccer and swimming. | |
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Kanata Hoshijima's father from Astra Lost in Space is one. Being a decathlete himself, he wants Kanata to enter in the sports field as well, preying upon Kanata's wish to become strong in order to get the sportsman he wants. His attitude is explained away with the reveal that Kanata is his father's clone, and dear old dad plans on bodyjacking Kanata to relive his glory days as a youthful athlete. | |
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Dan Scott is an overbearing Sports Dad in One Tree Hill. He is constantly on his son Nathan who is the star of the high school basketball team. He also harasses his illegitimate son Lucas, who is also a talented basketball player, because he sees Lucas as competition to the rightful "heir" despite Lucas being older. Dan is so intense that Nathan often expresses that he loves basketball in spite of his father rather than because of him. Later, we learn that Royal, Dan's father, was the same type of father and Dan eventually faked a career-ending injury to escape the constant pressure. | |
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Ted Lasso: Jamie Tartt's father abandoned him and his mother shortly after his birth, only to come back in the picture when Jamie started getting attention for his soccer skills. He proceeded to verbally and physically abuse him for doing anything he considered "soft" and continues to do so even though he's a young star in the English Premier League. | |
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Spike's dad in Little Giants is your typical Sports Dad; in his words, his son was "bred for football glory." As such, Spike is a merciless Jerk Jock, stronger and faster than any other kid his age. Spike's dad is in tears when his son's team loses at the end. | |
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Tyler in Total Drama Legacy. Because his klutziness prevented him from becoming an all-star athlete, he decided to shape his son Wayne into the athlete he could never be. So he signed Wayne up for sports as soon as he was old enough, and to his delight, Wayne ended up not only enjoying sports, but being very good at them. | |
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Subverted by Miyata's father in Hajime no Ippo. While his son Ichiro took up boxing few after Miyata-san's forceful retirement, it was because of Miyata's own will and not because his dad pressured him to do it, and father and son care for each other very much. | |
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In an episode of Hey Arnold!, the basketball coach's son Tucker is on the basketball team, and the coach's most important rule is "Pass the ball to Tucker". Tucker enjoys basketball and is a decent player, but he often feels overly pressured by his father, which often causes him to miss free throws due to the stress. | |
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Danny's father in Dreadnought is noted as being this as one of his numerous forms of abuse, attempting to force Danny to play high school football despite her lacking both interest and talent in the sport. He stops after Danny winds up with a female body as a side effect of gaining Dreadnought's powers, but only because his focus switches to finding a way to "cure" Danny. | |
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The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers: All of the parents whose kids are part of the current Ducks team (which is now a powerhouse) are this, having splurged on expensive gear, private coaching sessions, etc. to try to get their middle school aged kids to the highest competitive levels of hockey. One parent in particular has hired a pediatric sports psychologist. | |
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Captain Tsubasa: Averted with Karl-Heinz Schneider's father Rudi. He was a former player himself and now coaches the team, so there's speculation that he pushed Karl-Heinz into doing it himself. But Karl-Heinz genuinely loves soccer and is happy being The Ace of the German team. The patriarch of the Konsawatto family is implied to be a Stage Dad. The three sons play soccer but are also very popular sepak takraw players in their native Thailand, and their dad was a former player as well. Mr. Konsawatto tells his kids that if the Thai team qualifies for the WYC, he'll let them switch from sepak takraw to soccer. They lose to Tsubasa and Co., but he still allows them to keep on playing soccer. |
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Discussed in House of Anubis. Mara's parents are both professional athletes, with her father being an Olympic gold medalist and her mother being a professional hockey player. So, in her own words, they were "pushy" about her playing sports, to the point where Patricia claims that Mara has been "living, breathing, eating it all her life" despite being a nerd who doesn't actually enjoy athletics. This allows her to relate more to Mick, who has the opposite issue of being a Lovable Jock whose doctor father wants him to also be a doctor. | |
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In A Cinderella Story, Austin's father actively tries to dissuade him from going to any college other than the one he wants his son to go to. He has an entire plan laid out, starting with Austin playing football at a local college; unfortunately for Austin, he's a poetry lover who wants to go to Princeton. After Austin leaves his high school championship game to reconcile with Sam, his dad protests that he's throwing away his dream. Austin corrects he's throwing away his father's dream. Thankfully, this makes his dad come around by the end. | |
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Dexter's Laboratory: In "Sports a Poppin", Dexter's father tries to teach him different sports (including football, basketball, baseball and others), but Dexter doesn't succeed in any of them. After his dad gives up and Dee Dee sets free a monster, Dexter starts defeating it using surprisingly good athletic skills that his father doesn't see. | |
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Cold Case: In "The Lost Soul of Herman Lester", the father of a high school basketball player murdered his son's main competition. He later cut his son out of his life for quitting the game. In "Superstar", the Victim of the Week's single father has been pushing her into playing tennis since she was 5 years old, which consumes her life to the point of her wanting to quit in favor of attending college and having a regular adult life. This results in the victim and her father clashing the night of her murder. |
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