To function at peak level, student-athletes need their physical mental and emotional health. We work on their diet, their skills and their mental game, but never say much about the one-third of their lives that means so much — the eight hours when they should be sleeping. An article in U.S. News and World Report […]
Here’s a follow-up on yesterday’s post on concussions. It concerns a fatality that occurred on the Montclair High School football team in New Jersey. It serves as a sobering reminder of the need for safety in all sports programs. Another article, this one published a decade ago, details the end of a hockey career. Brett […]
One of my players has a concussion. She is itching to get back, and hates the thought that she may be out for the season, but she also admits that she is not feeling well. That means we have to be extra cautious, even more cautious than the doctors. Who knew that concussions could occur […]
Today brings news of an untimely end that came to a soccer mom. Dead in an apparent domestic murder-suicide, she made headlines last year when she wore a gun to a children’s soccer game. It made me google “sports parents,” and the second item that came up concerns “sideline rage.” Among the information: 52.9 percent […]
One play stands out from yesterday’s classic playoff game in which the Minnesota Twins defeated the Detroit Tigers to earn a trip to New York to play the Yankees. Late in the game, a Detroit player tried to bunt. If he had been successful, it might have helped the Tigers build a crucial run. Instead, […]
One thing is for sure about this evening’s winner-take-all playoff game between the Detroit Tigers and the Minnesota Twins in the Metrodome: The batting practice and game warmup will look just like the 162 that took place during the regular season. Nothing will change, even though the game will decide which team goes home and […]
In this article from the New York Times, we learn that New York City, in an effort to limit the amount of fat and sugar eaten by students, has clamped down on school bake sales. This gets your attention on two levels. Not only do we hear another alarm about childhood obesity, but we also […]
Oops! I usually notice Oct. 3, the anniversary of the day Bobby Thomson hit baseball’s most famous home run. But yesterday it slipped by without notice, and today is a good day to revisit the event, especially with two baseball teams playing for their lives today, just as the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants […]
Years ago at a high school soccer practice I was watching with a mom whose daughter happened to head a ball only feet from where we were standing. “Another point off the SAT scores,” the mother quipped, referring to the blow to the head that her daughter had just absorbed. I took it as a […]
The team to watch in this year’s college basketball season is definitely Manhattan. It will feature Keith Laue, on scholarship there despite being born without a left hand. My favorite part of the article by the Associated Press is where Laue got cut from the first team he tried to make. (Many thanks to Kevin […]