Are you watching the Olympics? I’m catching what I can. It’s the one time every four years when I watch sports that otherwise don’t hold much interest for me. And the TV producers always do a thorough job of digging … Continue reading
When I was growing up, we depended on Mrs. Weber to make sure the school sports program ran right. Without her, the program probably wouldn’t have run at all. From organizing and working the Boosters’ fundraising raffles to scheduling games … Continue reading
Before we started talking about concussions and overuse injuries and pitch counts and any number of other ways youth sports were potentially dangerous for kids, we talked a lot about how, as parents and coaches, we’d gone soft. Heck, every … Continue reading
Parents whose kids play sports face a lot of challenges beyond driving the gang to practice and trying to feed them healthy meals on the fly. The deeper emotional terrain can be slippery at times, and crossing it isn’t easy. … Continue reading
What if you were in New Orleans and you got into a taxi and the driver was Drew Brees? Pretty amazing, right? OK, more than amazing – absolutely impossible. But that’s the premise of this entertainingly educational four-minute video made by … Continue reading
I had a terrific pitcher on one of my baseball teams who, on a good day, was pretty much unhittable. He was on the small side, a lefty, and didn’t have great velocity. But he had better control than any … Continue reading
Most of us, I’ll wager, began coaching youth sports because our kids were involved and the team needed parents to volunteer to coach the team. In fact, in all the years and all the sports my kids have played, there … Continue reading
If you have kids playing youth sports, you probably hear a lot of advice about how you should do it. Some of it is useful; some if it is our own business. I see many articles and blog posts about … Continue reading
If you’ve coached for a certain length of time, you’ve probably had at least one bad team. By “bad” I mean a losing team, one that, game after game, simply isn’t up to the level of the competition. I had … Continue reading
You’ve probably seen it – the video of Boston’s Gina O’Toole, an irate hockey mom, scrambling across the ice at her son’s game to help break up a fight among a bunch of players. If not, here it is, along … Continue reading
