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
Talking Sports with my Son on the Radio…
Every so often I find it very refreshing – and even somewhat therapeutic — to take a few moments and simply talk sports (and sports memories) with my son. (John is now 28, all grown up, and onto his busy career on Wall Street as an investment hanker.) But that’s just what I did this … Read more
The Law’s Limited Role in Injury Prevention
By Doug Abrams My last three columns told the story of 15-year-old sophomore Neal Goss, who suffered a broken neck when an opponent blind-sided him at the end of a Chicago-area junior varsity hockey game that had spiraled out of control from the opening faceoff. The trilogy’s central point was that national playing rules protect … Read more
Adversity Drives Great Athletes
People always ask me about the so-called “intangibles” that we (and our kids) take away from sports. And most of the time, I rely on the usual platitudes: teamwork….setting and reaching goals…sportsmanship…and so on. But of all the life-long lessons that sports provides, I truly think that the one lesson that stands above them all … Read more
“All Saftey is Local” – (Part III)
By Doug Abrams My last two columns have explained how national playing rules protect youth athletes best when parents, coaches and officials actually enforce the rules locally. The first column largely reflected my experiences as a youth hockey coach for more than 40 years, and the second column drew largely on polling data that consistently … Read more
“Big Brother is Watching You!”… Colleges Hire Outside Firms to Monitor Athletes’ Posting on Social Media
“So here’s how it works…if your son or daughter wants to play intercollegiate sports at our university, he or she has to first sign a waiver that gives us access to all of her social media, including the password to their Facebook account, twitter account, and so on.” Can that be possible? Isn’t that illegal? … Read more
"The Sports Edge"
Doug Abrams
Rick Wolff
Steve Kallas
