Intense focus on one sport and adult-driven pressures to perform are taking their psychological toll on children, causing concentration problems, fatigue, and irritability. In fact, the trend toward starting kids in organized sports at younger ages isn’t necessarily setting the stage for an active lifestyle later on in life — 70 percent of kids give up sports entirely by age 13. When asked by Michigan State University researchers why they quit sports, kids almost universally said, “It’s not fun anymore.
Barry Sanders, Cecil Fielder, Steve Yzerman, Joe Dumars
THIS IS DETROIT
The Four Horseman of Detroit sports.
Anybody want to go? Madthoughts will be there, if that sweetens the deal.
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Olympics
I’m over it. Wrap it up.
Your All-You-Can-Eat Seats include an endless supply of freshly popped popcorn, chicken tenders, grilled hamburgers, hot dogs, vegetable platter and pasta salad (menu subject to change). Also includes three beverages — your choice of Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Sierra Mist, or Mountain Dew.
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I’m not a slim man, and I love hamburgers and popped popcorn, but c’mon Detroit, how fat do you want to be?
Tickets start at $55.
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I almost pissed myself at the one starting at 00:57. Awesome video.
“GOLLY!”
A blooper reel from fishing shows. The one at 2:08 had me rolling.
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Alec Baldwin is sitting in Jack Donaghy’s seats at the World Series.
Interesting tidbit of info there.
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Is it LeBron’s year? This pic is almost enough to make me root for Cleveland this year instead of Detroit.
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Tuesday’s tiebreaker game is at 5:07pm ET on TBS. Porcello takes the mound against Twins’ righty Scott Baker.
C’mon Detroit! Five minutes left. Hold them back!
Ochocinco says he’ll soon launch a contest, in which he’ll select one of his followers each week, fly them to the Bengals game, and work out hand signals so he can have them update his Twitter account while he’s on the field. The result will be Ochocinco tweets during the game that don’t technically violate the NFL’s policy of no cell phones during competition.
This is pretty cool. Slightly cheesy, but cool. How Chad Ochocinco Plans to Tweet During NFL Games.
I generally don’t get too mad at athlete swagger. These are athletes that have abiliites only a fraction of the world can do. The whole idea of the humble champion is, in my mind, an out-dated archetype. Let them brag. Let them boast. Let them show off. I can see why the NFL doesn’t want thim carrying a mobile on the field, but let the man celebrate!
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A video tribute to Chuck.
I get a real sense of hometown pride when he talk about how no one liked Detroit in the NBA.
