Archive | December, 2008

Meat Market

Posted on 16 December 2008. Tags: , , , ,

I also just finished reading Meat Market by ESPN reporter Bruce Feldman. Feldman spent a year embedded with the University of Mississippi’s football coaches as they went through the process of recruiting their players. Although there were far too many names of both coaches and players and it was hard to keep everyone straight, the [...]

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Game On Book Review

Posted on 16 December 2008. Tags: , ,

Game On
I just finished reading Tom Farray’s Game On. Needless to say, it was an eye opener both as an educator/coach and as a parent. As I was reading I would say to myself, “Yup, that’s me”, or “I did that”.
The basic focus of the book is on our obsession w/ youth sports in the [...]

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