What Separates Good Athletes from Great Athletes

Average athletes go to practice as the baseline to participate in sports. Above average athletes do extra work during the offseason to improve. Good athletes have self-motivation and use that self-motivation as the drive to achieve progressively harder goals. Subsequently, doing those three things are enough for 99% of athletes to enjoy sports and compete […]

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It Takes a Patient and Sane Wife to Tame a Crazy Sports Dad

Some of my best and worst moments have come in and around youth sports. I try to write about many of those moments so others can learn from my successes and failures as a youth sports dad. More often than not, the unsung hero in those stories is my wife. I believe I can speak […]

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What Does the Change in Kid Bike Riding Habits Say About Our Culture?

Today as I was reading Cal Ripken’s book on parenting young athletes titled The Ripken Way I came across a startling statistic. According to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Centers for Disease Control, on any typical day kids today are six times more likely to play a video game than to […]

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