September 8, 2019 We hear it all the time, “Sports are supposed to be fun.” However, in more than 30 years of sport, my involvement with Special Olympics events have been the only consistent platform in sport where I have seen this statement lived and expressed with sheer joy. As a ten-year professional baseball player…
I was deeply honored to be a contributor to the 2017 edition of Dr. Angela Lumpkin’s Modern Sport Ethics, which is one of the nation’s leading textbooks for higher learning in the field of Sport Management. I co-authored the following scholarly article with Dr. Michael Sagas (Professor and Chair of the Department of Tourism, Recreation and…
I See You Working, Coach! A local Bradenton, Florida youth coach recently made the most of a “teachable moment.” In my community talks around the county, I have been asking parents and coaches in attendance to write me in order to share stories of “the good, the bad, and the ugly” of youth and amateur…
October 15, 2016 (Excerpt from Chapter One of My Book) Allow me to take you inside the current world of youth sports. If you are new to recreational and amateur athletics in America, the picture I am going to paint for you will be unsettling. However, if you have spent much time around the playing…