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Shawn McDonald didn't ask to be a team captain at a Riverside school for the deaf, but he didn't back down. 'We have to show them,' he said -- and they did.
Youth Coaches Need Background Checks - Learn about the importance of knowing about the people that deal with our children and what it takes to keep them safe.
Keeping Sports in Perspective - Know when to voice your objections and opinions and see how parents behavior can influence children
He's Tackling Quite a Challenge - For four years, Jake Manning walked the halls of Groton-Dunstable High School wearing the Ayer High Panther logo. No one held it against the star quarterback. After all, the two schools share the same football team.
Sports Should be Fun -
According to the National Alliance for Youth Sports, some 70 percent of children in leagues quit organized sports by age 13 and never return.
Florida Woman Strives To Help Alaska Football Team
When the Barrow (Alaska) Whalers played their first football game on a finger-numbing day in August, they quieted naysayers who said high school football would never come to the Arctic.
One of the main reasons very good coaches are quitting their profession in droves is how much kids have changed over the last twenty years or so. Read story . . .
Mouthguards Can Save the Day, Says Pennsylvania Dental Association - Read more . . .
Coaching Character - Sportsmanship is taught – but not often enough and not well enough, if you go by the rising number of bad-behavior incidents among professional athletes and coaches.Read more
