Bob CollinsA story from the Minnesota high school boy’s tennis tournament provides today’s jumping off point for the ongoing debates in youth sports — what’s wrong with winning?
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Tag: Youth Sports
The extent to which the adults were shamefully using kids to make their point in a beef at last February’s Minnesota state high school dance tournament seems underscored by a decision by the Minnesota State High School League yesterday to award medals anyway to the girls who refused them. They had previously been disqualified because of their display.
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A kerfuffle in Wisconsin is shedding a bit of a spotlight on this question: “What’s the role of school sports?”
The problem is a bill that includes a provision allowing home-schooled and charter school students to play sports in their public school district. Read more →
More high school dance team coaches have been disciplined for their part in a demonstration against the Faribault girls who won the state high school tournament in February with a routine the coaches said was cribbed from a Colorado school. Read more →
When the Minnesota high school dance team season starts next year, perhaps the priority will be restoring a little class to the image of the sport.
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In Wichita, Michael Kelley, who has Down Syndrome and autism, plays on a school’s special needs basketball team.
His mom bought the young man a varsity letter jacket like other kids wear.
The principal made him remove it. Read more →
Cooler heads have prevailed near Los Angeles where a high school girl’s basketball team was disqualified from the playoffs because they wore uniforms to call attention to breast cancer. Read more →
A Los Angeles-area high school girls basketball team has been disqualified from a postseason tournament because it wore uniforms to call attention to breast cancer research.
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It hasn’t been the best week for the Minnesota State High School League, which is shoveling sand against the tide of ugliness in high school sports. Read more →
Had the Little Leaguers from Chicago not cheated, a group of kids from Rhode Island might never have had one of the most valuable moments in their lives. Read more →
Edina loves its sports success and there aren’t too many cities with more of it.
But now it’s pushing the traveling youth teams to a younger age — fourth grade. Is it too much, the Star Tribune’s Mike Kaszuba asks in his story today?
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St. Paul Academy has forfeited a playoff football game against Highland because only 14 players are still playing and officials are concerned it will be too big of a mismatch. Read more →
The fall sports season is peaking and Bill Speros, who writes as ‘The Obnoxious Boston Sports Fan’ has heard enough of the one question every coach is hearing: ‘Why isn’t my kid playing?’ Your kid isn’t good enough, he says. Read more →
What’s wrong with us? Just about everything when it comes to adults and youth sports, Read more →
Let’s face it. Football fans don’t much care that the constant hitting and brain-smashing action is killing the athletes of the National Football League — a fact that is overwhelmingly proven in Tuesday’s PBS Frontline series, “League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis.” So you could probably scroll right past most of the two hours Read more →