FROM MY DESK
WATCH: Venus Sings Karaoke in Beijing
Champion Venus Williams took a break from her preparation for the China Open by singing karaoke and cooking a well-known Chinese sweet.
Behind Every Teen Athlete is an Exhausted Parent
These parents of athletes are out of town often, traveling hundreds of miles with packed cars full of equipment, uniforms, overnight bags, and coolers, adding hotel stays to their growing credit card bills and filling up gas tanks and hungry stomachs at every stop because that’s what they do.
Can College Recruits Really Play Multiple Sports?
I do not disagree that playing multiple sports is ideal. I am just frustrated with a system that has made it near impossible for many athletes. In my experience, it is just not realistic, at least in the world of youth soccer. I am sure college soccer coaches would be fine with their recruits playing other sports, as long as they still play for their elite club team.
Think making your kid play ball year round will help him make the majors? You’re wrong.
There is scant evidence to suggest that our current culture of youth sports is good for the kid, and yet the kid keeps doing it against all of the advice from physicians, and those who actually reach the professional ranks.
Virtually all of them — all of them — attest that playing one sport year round is not good, and that we are burning out kids through all-star, select and whatever other leagues we "sell" to parents.
What does tennis phenom, Bianca Andreescu’s Mom know that I don’t?
My tennis world looks like meltdowns, chewed and bloodied fingernails and dad's screaming at their kids while they shake the fence.
Academic Advisor Has 12 Things She Wants to Tell College Parents
I am here to tell you that, for a variety of reasons, the college experience is NOT the same as when we went to school. It seems to me that it is a perfect storm of:
