September 23, 2019
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Youth basketball is not broken. It’s alive, well and thriving. Team USA finished seventh in the World Cup earlier this month, and coaches and fans point to youth basketball as one of the primary reasons for that failure. Oh sure, the point of kids playing basketball is to win championships. Tens of thousands of boys […]
ESPN.com posted an interesting two-part series last week focusing on the harm caused by young athletes focusing entirely on basketball. It was well-researched, interesting, and probably scared the hell out of a lot of parents whose kids dream of playing college basketball and maybe even the NBA. One thing it failed to mention is that […]
When I was a kid playing any sport with a ball and scoreboard, parents used games and practices as a babysitter. They napped, partied, played golf, relaxed, or whatever the hell else they felt like doing when kids weren’t bouncing off the walls in their homes and neighborhoods. At my high school soccer games, most […]
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 […]
Thousands of high school age basketball players are in Las Vegas to compete and impress coaches in a variety of basketball tournaments, and just as many soccer players are in Dallas vying to win national championships – and also impress coaches. The focus – especially those about to be seniors in high school – will […]
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. […]