Colorado youth baseball brawl latest example of sports parenting run amok
A 13 year-old volunteers to umpire a little league game being played by seven year-olds. It’s a recipe for disaster in Lakewood, Colorado. Parents are idiots. This has somehow become our society. It’s not that all games end in brawls, but at virtually every rec or travel league baseball game this summer across America, at […]
When I asked my old boss how I should grade myself as a youth baseball coach, he said, “That’s easy. How many kid play next year? If they all play, you were great. If none play, you were terrible.” Best answer ever. The way to get kids to play the following season is to make […]
Okay, the headline is a bit of a lie. If your child is going to be coveted by coaches for his or her athletic ability, you will have virtually nothing to do with making that happen. Coaches know what they want, and they recognize it quickly. The most helpful thing a parent does for a […]
by Kent Sterling Against some of the highest ranked boy’s basketball players in the country, Indiana’s own EG10 Central Stars 17 & under team finished the unique regular season of the Adidas Gauntlet with a 14-2 record. This is nothing new for coach Pat Mullin who has won with lesser known talent in the past. […]
by Kent Sterling There are some very tall and talented athletes playing basketball at the Fishers Fieldhouse today. Some of the guys that you be watching for the next decade – cheered by millions – are playing in front of friends and family just down the street. Not that fans of great basketball should head […]
by Kent Sterling The one player who will intrigue college coaches and fans at the NY2LA Super Jam in north suburban Milwaukee more than any other is Dream Vision’s Stephen Zimmerman, a seven-footer from Las Vegas Bishop Gorman. Zimmerman just finished playing in Indianapolis at the Adidas Invitational where Indiana offered the 2015 recruit ranked […]
by Kent Sterling Point guard Noah Robotham of Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas is playing with Dream Vision, and last week at the Adidas Invitational, a lot of eyes were on him because his high school and summer teammate Stephen Zimmerman is being recruited by everyone. Click here to follow Kent on Twitter […]
by Kent Sterling The kids playing basketball on a relentless schedule this weekend in Indianapolis at the Adidas Invitational, in Atlanta at the Nike Peach Jam, and in Milwaukee and other cities next week are having a great time. The big time college coaches who are out in force evaluating them might not like it, […]
by Kent Sterling Nine games in five days is a lot of basketball for anybody, much less high school age kids, and thatwear and tear showed in the championship game of the Adidas Invitational at North Central High school today. ESPNU viewers deserve better. Spiece Indy Ice got off to a quick 17-2 start this […]
by Kent Sterling In a game like so many through the years, a team from Indiana took on another group with higher ranked players from another area and beat them by hitting open shots, and frustrating them defensively. The EG All-Stars 73-65 win over Dream Vision was impressive given the rout Dream Vision put on […]