The Little League organization in one Ohio town has decided not to hold an all-star game, since such an event can hurt a young player’s feelings.

MY FOX CLEVELAND hurls up news that the city of Beachwood has canceled its all-star game for its 9- to 12-year-old baseball players, believing that such a game would be […]

Michelle Wie made a quick climb through the amateur ranks, qualifying for the prestigious women’s tournament affectionately known as “The Publinks.”

Wie’s record as the youngest qualifier for that event will be broken this week by a fellow Hawai’ian, 10-year-old Allisen Corpuz.

The problem with kids’ sports today, you know, besides weeding out the coaches that have enormous collections of child pornography, is the parents. They’re too involved, whether it’s with over-organizing the leagues where their children play, or having ridiculous expectations of how good their kids really are.

Oh, and if we can get the grandparents to […]

Before 2008, Delray Beach, Florida, had a segregated Little League program.

The two programs were finally integrated in time for the spring. As children of both races played together, a city laden with racial strife tried to follow their example.

Sixty-four-year-old Lindsey Dickinson goes by “Dick,” in more ways than one.

The former Illinois youth football coach was a fixture in the community, was the namesake of a local golf tournament, and respected by all, until federal law enforcement unearthed a surprise that nobody saw coming.

Man, we always hated those cool athlete kids in grade school that starred in all the sports. They were the big hitters and the quarterbacks and the soccer stars (usually overlapping) and they got all the attention and everyone thought they were so cool. They totally weren’t. That’s why we totally don’t […]

There’s a 15-year-old former gymnast out of Scotland that’s drawing comparisons to America’s own Michelle Wie, with one notable exception.

This girl can actually win.

It’s a really sad world we live in that any grown adult who enjoys hanging around young’uns playing sports has the stereotype of being some kind of pervert. Most of them are perfect gentlemen who just love teaching kids the great sport of baseball. Others get arrested for soliciting sex with a 14-year-old.

NEWSDAY reports […]

Thirteen-year-old Nate Miller crouches into the net at 6′3″, 180 lbs, to defend the net for the Junior Pens (who include Mario Lemieux’s son, Austin). His size-16 skates act as another set of blocking pads as he towers over his teammates and opponents and nearly looks the 6′4″ Mario in the eye. And […]

The PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS reports that last Saturday at a girls youth basketball game in suburban Philadelphia, Mitch Williams “cursed at a female referee who was calling a basketball game in which his daughter, a fifth-grader, was playing.”

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Williams thought his daughter was getting repeatedly fouled with no calls coming from the […]