94th Edition Lesson 13 – Don’t bail them out. Let the kids figure it out In most games coaching youth for nearly three decades, I rarely called timeouts. Why? Basketball is a very dynamic game, and kids need to learn

93rd Edition Lesson 11 – Be bold and have a religious agenda Coaching kids has always been a spirit-filled experience for me.  One time a parent went to the headmaster of the charter public school at which I was coaching

92nd Edition Lesson 9 – You can’t save them all, but you should try to I first started coaching Maurice when he was 9 years old at a local YMCA. He was tall and skinny, not very skilled, but was blazing fast,

91st Edition Lesson 7 – Expect more than they can accomplish then love them when they fall short One year I was coaching a U9 team, made up primarily of a few neighborhood kids. In no way were we an all-star

90th Edition Lesson 4 – Act like you’ve been there before Nick made the winning shot and his dad raced on the court and picked him up. I felt that was totally inappropriate. Why? In most athletic competitions, at all levels, when a

89th Edition There are multiple life lessons that can be learned through a properly focused athletic program.  Here are a few real-life experiences.   Lesson 1 – Relish Unfairness… Minutes before the start of the basketball game a mom approached me. I

88th Edition The sixth in in my six-part series – “Six things we can do to make America better.” Focus on character development and maximize participation Note: This final recommendation in this six-part series is very long. This week’s edition will include an overview

71st Edition I watched a lot more of the Paris Summer Olympics than I planned to. There just seemed to be one inspirational event after another, across multiple sports and venues, which kept drawing me in. It truly was an inspirational Olympics. 

58th Edition When I was a young kid my uncle took me to watch my cousin play in a college football game. He was the starting tight end for Hobart, a Division III college in Geneva, NY and their opponent that

Virtually every golf fan I know is up in arms about the announced merger between Saudi-backed LIV and our own venerable PGA Tour. In a nutshell, the Saudi’s, through its $620 Billion Public Investment Fund, can buy its way into