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Parents Behaving Badly, Part II: The Questions We Should Be Asking Ourselves
Hank Zona tells parents what questions they should ask of themselves to navigate the world of youth sports. In Part I of his Parents Behaving Badly series on adults and youth sports, Hank Zone...
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Our Boys Becoming Men: Pausing To See The Good and Hopeful
After weeks of the concussion and hazing and abuse stories, a ballplayer’s speech reminds Michael Kasdan of the good in sports and – more importantly – the good in our boys who are rapidly becoming...
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Mr. Blake, My First Man of Baseball
This Holiday Season, Jon Sindell remembers the man who believed in him as a kid – and a ballplayer. Mr. Blake was the first real baseball man I knew, and the first man who believed in me as a...
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Don’t Sweat Your Legacy, Because You Don’t Decide It
The death of a friend led Rick Gabrielly to realize that our legacies are determined by the receivers, not the givers. ___ My friend Jack Polak left us last week—at the young age of 102. A Holocaust...
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The Friday Sports Dump – NBA All-Star Weekend Edition
The NBA All-Star Saturday Night event used to mean something. Now it’s just a way for TNT to capture some advertising dollars. Wai Sallas is in Negative Town, population one, hoping for change. —...
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Cheating to Become Champions
Tor Constantino looks at how cheating at professional sports trickles down to our kids ___ Leading up to the Super Bowl earlier this month, you couldn’t throw around a Nerf football without hitting a...
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Joe Marraccino: Time Will Tell
Welcome to Portraits of Fatherhood: We’re telling the story of today’s dads. __ There is no better place to witness the changing roles of men and women in the larger culture than through the lens of...
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A Rite of Passage: A Dad’s Reflections On His Son’s First Little League Practice
His son’s starting Little League combines Mike Dittelman’s love of baseball and his son. __ Yesterday was my 5 year old son’s first-ever Little League baseball practice, and I’m not sure who was more...
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The Mo’ Things Change: Media Coverage of Mo’ne Davis Reinforces Barriers For...
The Conversation takes a look at the media attention heaped on Mo’ne Davis and asks: What’s behind it all? Why Mo’ne, and Why now? ___ What else can be written about Mo’ne Davis? Only 14 years old,...
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Trotting on Clouds
In 10 year-old boy’s world, it simply doesn’t get any better than your baseball team winning the championship. (Same for 40 year-old dads!) ___ My son threw the final strike of the season, a swing and...
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Rooting
This poem from Joshua Martin is a work of rare power and honesty. — Rooting Because I’ve got too much time on my hands these days, I go home and find myself sitting on a bare metal bleacher watching a...
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How Bigotry Crushed the Dreams of an All-Black Little League Team
Embed from Getty Images The civil rights movement is often told in terms of court decisions, bus boycotts, lunch counter sit-ins, freedom riders, brutal beatings and racist demagogues. It’s rarely...
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Behind The Lens: Capturing The Unbridled Joy of Youth Baseball
— Susan’s words about one of her favorite photos: “When you are 10, and you secure your spot in the summer baseball playoffs, joy is physical and can’t be contained. Your friends, your team, and your...
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American Pie in a Picture
— Just in time for the July 4th Holiday, Susan Rogers’ gives us a behind the lens look at a slice of Americana: Max Goldstein, on the mound in relief, from the 13U Maplewood/South Orange (NJ) summer...
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An Open Letter to My Son Andrew
This father explains to his son why he’s not signing him up for little league and offers some sage advice to parents about expectations and their children. — Dear Andrew, I owe you an apology. If you...
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Reverse The Curse
Embed from Getty Images — Reverse The Curse Vincent Fitzgerald MSW LSW, Jersey City, NJ From Dads Behaving DADLY 2: 72 More Truths, Tears, and Triumphs of Modern Fatherhood Copyright © 2015...
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Chest-Pounding Heroes and Our Kids
— I grew up playing sports continually, before video games. It was baseball in the summer at the local park with a hodgepodge of kids: anyone of any age or gender we could round up. It was football in...
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The Heart of Sports: Fathers and Sons and Baseball
“The Heart of Sports” is a weekly column that curates the stories, pictures, and moments that provide a window into the beating heart of sports: The father-son bonds forged in sport The on-field...
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The Good Men Project Sports Youth Sports Primer
A collection of the best of our youth sports coverage. ___ Youth sports touches virtually every parent. And it doesn’t take much involvement in youth sports, before you realize that it raises...
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GMPSports Speaks with Keith Law
I was thrilled to have the opportunity to sit down and speak with Keith Law, a Senior Baseball Writer at ESPN and ESPN Scouts. Keith is a member of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America and a...
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