The Amazing Case of Jabari Parker, the Nation’s Top Basketball Prospect
This week’s cover of Sports Illustrated boldly proclaims that 6’9″ junior Jabari Parker of Simeon Career Academy in Chicago is not only the nation’s best prospect in hoops, bu that Parker is the best prospect in the game since LeBron James. That’s a pretty strong claim. So I called up the writer of the article … Read more
Book Review: The Most Expensive Game in Town
One of the nice benefits of having been involved as an advocate in the world of sports parenting for more than two decades is that lots of publishers and authors send me their books to review. Each year, I tend to accumulate a number of either just published books or galleys of books that are soon … Read more
Why Civil Rights Were at Stake in the Pilaro Field Hockey Case
By Doug Abrams Fourteen-year-old Keeling Pilaro will play field hockey for Long Island’s Southhampton High School again next season after all. On Tuesday morning, his continued participation was approved by a close vote of an appeals panel of Section 11, which supervises Suffolk County’s high school sports. The ultimate issue was whether Title IX would … Read more
Perhaps the hardest question that today’s sports parent have to confront….
I felt the time had come this AM – on Mother’s Day no less– to ask the question that Moms and Dads everywhere have to confront these days: whether it’s okay to let their youngsters play contact sports, like football, soccer, ice hockey, lax, and so on — when it’s clear that there’s real growing … Read more
Title IX and the “Level Playing Field”
By Doug Abrams Rick Wolff and I had another stimulating conversation on “The Sports Edge” last Sunday morning, this time about Title IX’s dramatic effect on the lives of boys and girls in sports. Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972, of course, is the landmark congressional legislation that prohibits gender discrimination in … Read more
“You can’t play any more because you’re too good” – A Very Strange Case of Title IX
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the passage of Title IX, the wonderful federal law that mandates equal play for boys and girls in HS and college sports. By all measures, this has been a law which has brought only good things to sports. But that being said, every so often a quirky situation … Read more
The Power of “Thank You”
By Doug Abrams When I was president of a youth hockey program a few years ago, a coach told me over the summer that he would not return for the upcoming season. “I had trouble with the parents last year,” he explained, “and I they didn’t appreciate what I tried to do. I don’t want … Read more
Youth Sports Are Expensive?
In truth, I often pick up a lot of wonderful articles and columns from the New York Times when it comes to the topic of sports parenting and youth sports. But I must confess that I’m still scratching my head from an article that ran the other day in which the Times’ reporter did an expose of sorts … Read more
A Fresh, New, and Intriguing Way to Do Kids’ Sports
Danny Bernstein grew up on Long Island where he played a variety of sports, most notably soccer. He was the goalkeeper on the Roslyn HS team which won the first NYS HS championship. Danny then went onto Amherst College where he continued playing soccer, and captained his college team. After graduating, he spent a number … Read more
How to Keep Your Players From Going Viral and Ruining Their Youth Sports Careers
By Doug Abrams The past few weeks have not been kind to Annette McCullough and Austin O’Such. Both players competed in games that otherwise would have attracted little attention locally, and no attention elsewhere. But both players committed flagrant fouls that went viral when films were posted on YouTube. Thanks to the national – and … Read more
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