You know it’s summer when the youth baseball coaches come out and start having opposing players arrested for nonsensical reasons. Actually Bill Marshall is a sheriff’s deputy, part-time Ballston Spa Village police officer, and coach of Galway of the Ballston Spa Junior Baseball League in New York. Marshall had Gary Hall Jr., an opposing player, [...]

For anyone who has seen “The Bad News Bears” (the real one, not the awful remake with Billy Bob Thornton), the idea of a drunk Little League coach can seem humorous. But as someone who had a coach in real life who was blitzed about 50 percent of the time, I can tell you it’s [...]

Just when you thought that the world of college football recruiting couldn’t get any more creepy, the CHICAGO TRIBUNE has a story that will practically make your skin crawl. Apparently, there is a new Web site ready to be launched that will evaluate the performance of junior high football players and promote the best players [...]

Too many times these days, mentions of youth sports in the news are accompanied by details of disgusting sexual perversion, parental misconduct, or other heinous issues often stemming from the imbalance of authority between adult and child, coach and player. Whatever happened to the halcyon days of yore, when kids were innocent, fun-loving scamps playing [...]

Emily Dickson mocks your antiquated notion of 11 players per side. The 14-year-old British schoolgirl scored two goals recently in a youth league game; not impressive until you find out that she’s the goalie, and both scores were on 120-yard shots from her own penalty box. Boom goes the dynamite!

These goals didn’t bounce into unattended [...]

At this point, should we call the Oxford English Dictionary people and see if they can add “Chris Hansened” into next year’s edition? I know it’s two words and all, but it’s so convenient and everyone knows exactly what it means. For example: the CHATTANOOGA TIMES FREE PRESS reports that a youth softball coach thought [...]

I hope everyone had a fun Mother’s Day, taking dear ol’ Mom out to dinner ‘n’ such. It’s the least you could do, since your mom does so much for you – like attacking other kids who’ve been taunting you.

(But not a Little League assault-free zone)
41-year-old Jodi Scheffler from Kirkland, Washington, was arrested a [...]

Seniors in high school are facing the last few months of life as a worthless teenager held down by the shackles of parental oppression. After they graduate from high school, they will move on to a life of being a worthless adult held down by the shackles of The Man and the banality of this [...]

What kind of a sports news day would it be without yet another story of a coach caught having sex with an underage student? Luckily, today’s quota has been filled by one Joey Strong of AuSable Forks, New York.

(Image courtesy WPTZ-TV. [W-Putz?])
Joey is a girls’ basketball coach for Holy Name School, a private elementary [...]

I would imagine that being a tennis coach in Santa Barbara is a pretty plum job: wonderful weather, beautiful scenery, and a chance to get paid for playing and coaching tennis. Of course, if allegations against former Santa Barbara High School girls tennis coach Peter Jeschke are correct, there’s are also much more slimy and [...]