If you’re going to play in a girl’s soccer league in America in 2017, you probably should have long hair, lest you want to get a good look at the wonderful world of adults in organized youth sports.
In Madison, Wis., the girls on one soccer team have been hearing it from opponents because they like to wear their hair short. They’re pushing back, however. Read more →
The Minnesota State High School League’s John Millea calls our attention to this video from Crookston, where the high school tennis team left for the state tournament. Things like this matters in cities around Minnesota. Read more →
Mili Hernandez is 8 years old, loves soccer, has short hair and looks like a boy, so she and her team were kicked out of a girls soccer tournament in Nebraska on Sunday.
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In La Crosse on Saturday, Abbey Zastrow finished last in the 400-meter dash and the 200-meter dash at the WIAA Division 2 girls state track and field meet at UW-La Crosse. She blew a hamstring with 50 meters to go in the 400 and had to walk to the finish line. Read more →
Kaylee Gossen, a junior from Marshall, could’ve just kept quiet and she’d be on her way to the state high school golf tournament.
But that’s not the way it works for high school golfers. Read more →
Thanks to Reddit, this sign from Glendale, Wis., is racing around the Internet, confirmation that a lot of people have a problem with a few parents — the ones who take their kids’ baseball games too seriously. Read more →
There are two girls on the co-ed squad and when the CYO found out, it said the girls played ‘illegally.’
When the kids took the floor against the lineup from St. Bartholomew the Apostle, the refs were told not to work the game. No girls! Read more →
Luke Burbank, the public radio guy, found ‘sport stacking’, and finally there’s a sport for your kid that won’t break the bank. Read more →
Little League baseball is adopting new rules to speed up the pace of play, which leads us to ask this question: What’s the hurry? Read more →
The Morris/Benson boy’s hockey team lost last Saturday’s season-opening game to Litchfield/Dassel-Cokato 12-to-0. Sounds bad, until you hear about the Morris/Benson goalie’s Herculean effort. Read more →
KARE 11’s Boyd Huppert confirmed anew a long-held personal observation I’ve had over the years of watching high school sports. If there’s an act of sportsmanship, it probably comes from the track-and-field kids, and it probably involves a female athlete.
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The founder of the team fired the coach who inserted the 19-year-old in to play against the kids.
‘I could zoom right in and see the facial hair,” parent Kevin Stockwell said. ‘You know most 13 year olds are starting to get facial hair. This gentleman had facial hair and had arm tattoos.’
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The occasional tales of sportsmanship on this blog are, indeed, heartwarming. But it must also be acknowledged that with every yin, there is often a yang.
Tyler Ohmann, of the Morrison County Record, found the yang at the homecoming football game in Royalton earlier this month when Upsala Swanville came calling. Read more →
In St. Charles, Minn., gateway to Whitewater, there lives a young woman who was raised properly. Read more →
For too many parents, never. Read more →
Bob Collins