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Sports of The Times: Youth Sports Again Take a Hit, This Time With Real Bullets

NORVELT, Pa. — Rick Albright was headed to a youth football game one Tuesday this month, just as he had, again and again, for over two decades now, when his son, Rick Jr., called with disturbing news.

“Dad, you better hurry and come out to the field,” Rick Jr. said. “You won’t believe what I found.”

Albright’s son had already called the police. He told them that he had run over something strange in the parking lot of Hurst Stadium here, home to the Mount Pleasant Area Junior Football League. There, in the parking space normally reserved for his father, the league president for the past 20 years, were four bullets.