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
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 Temptation of Specializing in One Sport
It’s a very natural assumption. Your youngster shows some real sign of athletic talent at a very early age, and a coach or perhaps a neighbor suggests that your son or daughter would be well-served to forego playing a variety of sports, as most kids do, and instead, just focus on soccer, or ice hockey, or … Read more
WHAT BASEBALL BAT SHOULD YOU USE IN 2012 IN COLLEGE, HIGH SCHOOL OR LITTLE LEAGUE?
By Steve Kallas Another baseball season is upon us and, while the rules for baseball bat usage are clear in college andhigh school, they become a little murky (or even difficult to understand) in Little League and travelleague baseball. COLLEGE BASEBALL The NCAA went to only approved BBCOR (Batted Ball Coefficient of Restitution) bats starting … Read more
It’s Official! US Soccer Academy Development is Now Forcing HS Soccer players to choose betwen their varsity team and club team
In a press release that went out nationally last week, the US Soccer Development Academy fired a major salvo at traditional HS varsity programs. The essence of the message? If you entertain any dreams of playing college soccer or even pro soccer, you need to walk away from your local HS team and play exclusively … Read more
At last! An online college recruiting service that makes sense!
If you have a youngster in HS who aspires someday to play sports in college, I do hope you had a chance to listen to the Sports Edge this AM. I had the opportunity to speak with Vish Prabhakara, the young CEO of BeRecruited.com, and I must admit that I came very impressed with how … Read more
Why Force Talented HS Soccer Players to Choose Between their School team and Travel Program?
We all know that life is full of choices – many of them quite difficult — so why put talented soccer players in an awkward spot where they have to choose between two passions? Playing for their HS team or their US Soccer Academy travel team? But that’s what’s happening with increasing frequency around the country. … Read more
Are You Okay with Public Schools Charging for Team Tryouts?
In an effort to defray the soaring costs of HS sports, I had read where some scbools in the Midwest were now charging kids a fee of $50 if they wanted to try out for a school team. As was pointed out on my radio show this AM, parents routinely fork over anywhere from $30 to … Read more
My Top Ten Sports Parenting Predictions for 2012…
So much has happened in recent years in the ever-changing world of sports parenting, that I thought I’d finish out 2011 with my Top Ten Predictions for the coming year. Here we go: 10. LL Baseball will follow the NCAA and the Nat’l HS Baseball Federation and allow only BBCOR (and of course wood) bats. … Read more
College recruiting: Be forewarned and do your homework first!
If the ultimate payoff for a young, talented, and dedicated athlete is to someday play at the collegiate level, you would think that parents would be better informed. The sad reality is that too many moms and dads sit up and fully expect scholarship offers to roll in during their kid’s senior year. Or that … Read more
"The Sports Edge"
Rick Wolff
Steve Kallas
Doug Abrams
