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Family Booted From Ohio Youth Basketball League After Mom Wears Mask Below Nose

By: KDKA-TV News Staff

CINCINNATI, Ohio (KDKA) -- A youth basketball league in Ohio booted a 10-year-old boy and his family.

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The family was kicked out because the boy's mother refused to wear a mask over her nose while watching the game. Jennifer Chaney had a mask over her mouth but below her nose.

Things got heated when Ben Goodyear of the Cincinnati Premier Youth Basketball League approached her about it.

Goodyear: Take your kid with you and leave, please.

Chaney: That doesn't make any sense. You have a fan that is yelling over here at me.

Goodyear: You're not wearing your mask. I'm the league president.

Chaney: "I don't give an (expletive) who you are.

The league's rules state you have to wear a mask to be in the gym, no exceptions.

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