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George Will on The Fading Pleasure of Football

I have written numerous times here that I believe tackle football is facing a crisis.  Parents are asking themselves whether their son should play football given the risks that are highlighted by the reports about chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, in the news.  I found George Will’s column in this weekend’s paper.  In the Dayton DailyContinue reading “George Will on The Fading Pleasure of Football”

Interesting Explanation for Drop in Youth Sports Participation

I ran across a post recently from Bob Cook.  Cook is a youth sports contributor to Forbes.com (I checked out other posts on his blog and I recommend it).  He writes that there might be another reason behind the statistic that the numbers of children between 6 and 17 participating in youth sports is downContinue reading “Interesting Explanation for Drop in Youth Sports Participation”