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Youth Sports

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Tri City Chargers Are National Football Champs

Team that draws players from St. Charles, Batavia and Geneva win the United Youth Football League’s national championship in Tampa, Fla.

Coaches often talk of building up their team’s stamina and skills with the goal of having them peak as they enter postseason play, when the best of the best square off shoulder to shoulder on the gridiron to determine which deserves the title of champion. So it’s no surprise that Jack Hull is perhaps just a little bit proud of the 9- and 10-year-olds who make up the Cadet Football Division team he leads as head coach of the Tri City Chargers, whose teams are part of the United Youth Football League. One week ago, on Dec. 7, the team finished a six-game sweep of the division and then national playoffs in Florida to became the national champions of the United Youth Football League of the Cadet Football Division. “They played their best …

Friday, March 2, 2012

Jeff Ward: On Youth Sports Coaches, Whitney Houston and Racism

If you use the N-word in a Facebook post, you deserve some criticism.

This doesn’t happen very often. Three of my favorite subjects in the same column? You’d think coaching youth sports, racism, and Whitney Houston wouldn’t be quite so closely connected, but as quantum physicists like to say, anything that can happen in Patchland probably will. As most of you already have guessed, we’re talking about the Oak Lawn youth baseball coach who was forced to resign over some awful terminology used in a Facebook post. Frustrated by the plethora of press coverage on Whitney Houston’s passing, he wrote, “I’m so sick of reading about this dumb stupid N-word Whitney Houston.” Of course this only proves my theory that all social media is an abomination and should be banned. Whenever a candidate comes to me on how to use …

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1:21 pm on Sunday, March 4, 2012

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