Summer vacation has come to a close and soon things will be getting quite busy around town. In the coming weeks posts will be emerging on girls participation in youth sports and a profile of one Maine kid heading to his first professional training camp but today I respond to an article in the BDN […]
All too often the focus on youth sports is drawn to the outrageous acts of the parents involved. There are a multitude of YouTube videos showing dad’s fighting in the stands, mom’s screaming at officials, parent/coaches blowing their tops and assaulting anything in sight. We read stories about rich folk flying their child’s AAU […]
School is finally out. Summer has officially flowered. And for hundreds of area youth track season has begun. What this means to parents are long hours in the hot sun (or freezing rain) in order to watch a few minutes of their child’s event. Listed below are a few tips on how to survive […]
The Pass. It’s a simple concept that follows that most basic of military concepts – out flank the enemy – and yet it’s one of the most difficult skills to instill in youth players (or several adult players I know, for that matter). One of my earliest youth sport memories was standing around a soccer […]
A funny thing happened in the theatre last week. I fell through a trap door and broke three ribs. It’s really not that funny and if it was and I laughed it would really hurt a whole heck of a bunch. And so, due to my injuries I’ve been placed on the (IR) the […]
As our children take the field or skate out onto the ice the mothers and fathers and siblings and friends arrange ourselves in the stands or along the out-of-bounds lines. We are there to cheer for them, support them, and tell them to skate harder even if we’re pretty sure they can’t hear us. […]
There are three requsite skills every child should learn on their path to young adulthood. They are, in order of accomplishment and/or importance: climbing, swimming and bike riding. Kid’s should learn a number of other things like reading, writing, counting, looking both ways before they cross the street, not to get in cars with […]
One of my most vivid memories from this past season of youth hockey occurred in one of our final games. My son, Zane, was in net and had managed to trap the puck under his right toe, inches from the goal line. With nothing more than the strength of that leg and the will […]
Saturday – March 28 – Noonish I am on the couch with a cat on my lap and a dog next to me watching Band of Brothers for the fourth or fifth time. My favorite episode is the first one where we see the training those boys had to go through to become paratroopers. […]
Melt the ice, toss the sticks in a bin, hang the skates in the basement, wash and store the pads, put away the helmets and tape and cups until next fall, hockey season is over. The end came for us, the Blues, this past weekend with a stirring run to the semi-finals of our […]
