Sports in Play

Only Sports: the latest headlines first, then BRO’s own Sports stories and video. All of Play →

Some of these take twenty minutes. One takes a decade. None of them require a bucket list, a sports car, or a midlife crisis.

Flipped game boards, tears on the sideline, the long car ride home. A practical plan for raising a child who can take a loss and shake the hand.

Build me a 30-day training plan around two sessions a week

The clipboard is the easy part. It's the practice plan, the parent emails, and the eleven kids who need you to be the adult for ten straight weeks.

The hardest player to coach will be your own kid

Playing time, the car ride home, and the handful of rules that stop one season from ending a sport your kid actually liked.

Poll

Most of being a good sports dad is knowing when to keep your mouth shut, and the rest is showing up to the games nobody cares about.

The hardest player on the roster is yours. A practical way to run the season so both of you still enjoy it in October.

That’s everything on Sports in Play.

Keep reading in