Category: youth sports
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FanDuel Made Me a Baseball Dad (Sort Of)
Kids have a funny way of dictating your interests, and sometimes even making you compromise your own principles. In my case, a few months ago my son James started playing baseball—a sport I abandoned at age 7, precisely the moment I was asked to hit a ball that was moving. I had actually been an…
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College Football is Ruining the Children
My son Sam came home in a panic over a rumor that Tennessee’s star quarterback Nico Iamaleava was entering the transfer portal. Nico led Tennessee to our first college football playoff, and despite a first-round curb-stomp by Ohio State, Vol Nation remains optimistic. As long as Nico stays, most experts think we’ll compete for the…
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A Fish In Water
“The greatest burden a child must bear is the unlived lives of his parents.”—Carl Jung I spent three hours at a swim meet at Mack Pool in Ann Arbor last Tuesday, packed thigh to thigh on bleachers with a hundred other parents, cheering on my 9-year-old, who was in the water for exactly 3 minutes…
