Wacky Youth Sports Dad

I'm not usually the kind of guy who blames others or finds excuses when I make mistakes. I mean, one of my favorite words is "accou...

It's not real hard to shut me up. Just threaten to throw me out of the building when my son and his team are playing a basketball game....

The thing about youth sports Dad Coaches is that they have the same insecurities as their wives and the other women they laugh at all the ti...

Now that we are approaching Labor Day and the Fall rec basketball season is upon us, it is starting to sink in that I have officially retire...

With 13 years (and counting) of youth sports dad coaching, it is so clear, with hindsight, that I've been just as guilty as anyone of ta...

This fatherhood thing is tough. Actually, it's not so tough with Meggie, who just graduated from the University of Richmond, Summa Cum...

As my transition to fulltime blogging (say, two posts per week) nears completion, I'm back in the saddle with tales, viewpoints and the ...

In launching this blog last year, I harkened back to my days as a sportswriter, when I drove editors crazy with articles too long and involv...

This Holiday blog post morphs into one that would fall under the alternate title of “Wacky Dad of a College-Age Daughter.” Worry not. It ha...

We are constantly amazed at my peculiar ability to somehow end up in situations that seemingly never happen to anyone else. I mean, who else...

When Mike was 10 years old and having fun playing all the sports, I took a job in New York City. It was a dynamic opportunity with a highly...

One Saturday morning during those too few seasons after tee ball and before the double digit-age years when kids and parents start taking Li...

What a trip it was when I started looking around the internet for youth basketball information when Mike started to show some promise as a p...

My daughter Meaghan is totally put off by the fact that this blog centers around her brother Mike and the youth sports pursuits that he and ...

One of the most consistently hysterical things about youth recreation sports is the way that the moms are in charge of just about everything...