Here is an interesting article on a moral quandary in which a reporter can find himself. - ts

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Is it reporter's job to turn in coach for breaking rules?
Sean Duff

Put yourself in my shoes, and tell me what you would do. You're covering
the high school boys golf regional championships this week at Flatirons Golf
Club in Boulder. While watching the action on the final hole, you hear a
coach, in a raised voice, ask his player on the 18th green if he had moved
his ball back to the original position after he had moved his mark.

The player hadn't, and the coach's advice saved him a two-shot penalty.

Here's the rub: The coach broke the rules.

According to the Colorado High School Activities Association's 2007 golf
bulletin - and on information printed on tags the coaches wore at the
tournament - coaches "may have contact with his team members anytime
during the tournament with the exception of the time when the player has
reached the green to putt."

Perhaps the coach didn't know the rule. But he broke it nonetheless.

I don't know if anyone else heard the coach's illicit instructions. I asked
another coach about it, and he said the other coach broke the rule. Then
he added, "But who's going to be chicken- - - - enough to turn him in?"

In the end, I kept silent mainly because I feel a journalist should report the
news, not become part of the news. I didn't feel it was my call to report
the infraction.

But like I said in the beginning, what would you do?

http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs....57/1006/SPORTS

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