N.Y., has since released a statement calling the coach's behavior "completely unacceptable" Getty A high school basketball coach has been fired after he was caught pulling a player’s hair on camera.

Matt Levine works as a contributing writer for Newsweek based in California. His expertise is in covering the NBA but he also covers multiple other sports. He has been with Newsweek since 2024.

A high school basketball coach from a small upstate New York town made national headlines this week after he was caught on camera pulling a teenage player's hair. Jim Zullo, 81, came out of ...