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Cook: Float like a butterfly, play like a kid

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Over the years as a player, coach and athletic director, Sam Parfitt’s seen it all.

Once, a mother from the losing team dumped Powerade all over the first-place trophies. Then the police came.

There was that tennis player who lost and slammed his racket around like a lumberjack.

Another time, this one coach … well, I’ll let Parfitt tell you.

“He mooned his players,” Parfitt said.