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How Can I Foster My Child’s Athletic Potential?

Every kid has athletic potential. How do I nurture and develop the athlete in my child?
Is It Better for My Child to Play a Team Sport or an Individual Sport?

I love seeing my child involved in individual activities, but I don’t want to raise an antisocial child. I want my kid to learn to be a good team player. Should I be concerned that he seems more oriented toward individual sports?
What if I Have No Prior Coaching Experience?

I like the idea of being my child’s first coach, but I have no experience whatsoever. How do I do it?
You Are Your Child’s First Coach—Freeing Your Child from Oppressive, Hyperorganized Sports

From the moment they are born, we guide our children along life’s wondrous, rocky path, shepherding them lovingly through the vulnerable early stages of their development. We help them navigate daily physical and emotional challenges and nurture and harbor them as they gradually gather the strength and skills to function on their own.

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How Can I Foster My Child’s Athletic Potential?

Every kid has athletic potential. How do I nurture and develop the athlete in my child?

Is It Better for My Child to Play a Team Sport or an Individual Sport?

I love seeing my child involved in individual activities, but I don’t want to raise an antisocial child. I want my kid to learn to be a good team player. Should I be concerned that he seems more oriented toward individual sports?

What if I Have No Prior Coaching Experience?

I like the idea of being my child’s first coach, but I have no experience whatsoever. How do I do it?

You Are Your Child’s First Coach—Freeing Your Child from Oppressive, Hyperorganized Sports

From the moment they are born, we guide our children along life’s wondrous, rocky path, shepherding them lovingly through the vulnerable early stages of their development. We help them navigate daily physical and emotional challenges and nurture and harbor them as they gradually gather the strength and skills to function on their own.

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Some Tips For Youth Sports Parents, Time Magazine

We’ve known for a long time that the youth sports environment is toxic. You hear the news stories – in Colorado this summer, for example, a brawl broke out amongst parents following a baseball game for 10-year-olds.

Why Free Play is Key to Young Athletes’ Success, Ottawa Citizen

Danny Almonte was the star of the 2001 Little League World Series. In three games, the lanky, fireballing pitcher from the Bronx gave up three hits, one run (unearned) and struck out 62 of the 72 batters he faced.

The Best Way to Cheer for Your Child, The Wallstreet Journal

Is there anything a parent can do from the sidelines to help a child play a better game? We’ve all read about parents who yell and get into fights at their children’s games. But how are parents supposed to behave […]

How to Put the Fun Back in Youth Sports, The Washington Post

The point of kids playing sports, says youth sports consultant and dad/coach Luis Fernando Llosa, is to have fun and get exercise. End of story.

Investigative Stories

Winslow-Homer, Snap the Whip, 1872, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Let Them Be | Parabola Magazine | Winter 2013-2014

America’s children are being robbed of their childhood. It’s as simple as that. Play used to be the way we discovered ourselves and explored the world around us. Perhaps it was at a sandlot, where–glove in hand–we argued with friends, […]

Photograph by Andrew Hancock, “Corey Gahan” from the series “Portraits of Corey Gahan at home in Grandville, MI,” 2007

Sins of a Father | Sports Illustrated | January 2008

Corey Gahan was a champion in-line skater at 13. Then his dad put him on a regimen of steroids and HgH.

Inside the Steroid Ring | Sports Illustrated | March 2007

SI’s Luis Fernando Llosa and L. Jon Wertheim, on the scene for the Florida raids, continue to report on the ongoing investigation that promises to rock sports

The Mexican Connection | Sports Illustrated | April 24, 2006

Operation Gear Grinder shut down a flourishing drug business in a BALCO-scale investigation of major steroid trafficking

Athlete Profiles

How Jhonny Made Good | Sports Illustrated | April 9, 2012

Fleeing Venezuela for a better life and a chance to pursue his dream, Jhonattan Vegas found happiness in Texas, thanks to a far-reaching support group that has been with him every step of his journey.

Andres Romero | Golf Magazine | November 2008

On a midsummer day in 2007, as the young Argentine golfer Andres Romero boarded a hotel elevator in Akron, Ohio, an unexpected passenger trailed him in.

Antonio Margarito | SI.com | July 2008

Antonio Margarito was finishing his third set of abdominal crunches on a breezy evening in late April when he was told of the confrontation unfolding on the street outside the Gimnasio Azteca. The newly crowned IBF welterweight champion bounded up […]