In this golden age of plenty, we are surprisingly lacking the essentials more profoundly that ever before. I read an article which bemoans the increasing lack of sporting facilities in modern urban Australian cities. Obviously covid put paid to many sporting plans, venues and pools were closed, new construction not […]
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I work at a high school and I was assigned a duty to watch an area during the two-day athletics carnival. The first thing I noticed as I stood thinking of all the very important things on my desk that I should be doing, was their behavior. The standard of […]
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The Highlander movies and television shows were known for the saying, “There can be only one,” when it came to the titular character who was an immortal being and needed to defeat other immortals in combat in order to stay alive and maintain his immortality. Because of the rule about […]
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It has often been said that the family that plays together, stays together. A determinant of sporting participation in youth is the sporting culture that runs through the family. The propensity to play sport is greatly increased when this culture of active involvement exists at home and the child has […]
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The other day I spoke with my 15 (and 9 months as she likes to frame it for obvious reasons) year old sister about her most recent soccer tournament. She tells me it was close to Richmond, VA, two hours from our hometown in Silver Spring, MD. I was surprised. […]
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