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Preventing Pitching Injuries: A Dozen Tips [103]

1. Don't let your kid pitch when tired

2. Don't let your kid play baseball year-round

3. Follow pitch count limits and rest periods

4. Avoid multiple teams with overlapping seasons

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Release of Wolf Shark Racing Speedboard, Cracked Helmets and Skinned Ribs, And Lots of Racing [105]
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My Son’s Coach Is Making Him Wear Pads In 100 Degree Heat — What Can I Do? [107]

It used to be that kids had a limited number of sports or activities to choose from when they were growing up. These days children and their parents can choose from a dizzying array of sports and activities in which to participate - from traditional team sports like football, basketball, baseball and soccer - to extreme sports like bouldering, BMX biking, parasailing.

Our goal is to provide comprehensive information on each of the over one hundred sports and activities from which kids can choose these days: advice on the equipment needed and how to buy it, a primer on that sport or activity, and videos and advice from experts, parents, and sporting goods manufacturers.

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Spring Youth Football: A Strange New World For One Mom [110]

A Dallas mom enters the strange new world in which youth football is played, not just in the fall, but in the spring, an alternate universe in which even a tornado in the area isn't enough to cancel practice and April 30th is the new New Year's Eve.

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Outdoor Adventure Club Benefits Kids In Many Ways [111]

When a mom and sports psychologist started an Outdoor Adventure Club for kids at her son's elementary school, she learned that involving your children in physical activities outside of organized sports can reap enormous benefits. Finding an activity that involves learning practical skills and teaching children how to have more confidence makes it a win-win for everyone.

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US Soccer Ratchets The Club Sports vs. School Sports Battle To The Next Level [112]

US Soccer's new rule banning players on its Development Academy teams from playing high school soccer is designed to strengthen our national teams, but, says one veteran interscholastic sports administrator, the move raises questions about the integrity of the sport's national governing body.

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High Concussion Rate in Boys' Lacrosse Blamed On Intentional Head-to-Head Contact, Lax Rules Enforcement [113]

Lacrosse may be the fastest-growing high school boy's sport in the United States, but only football and ice hockey have higher concussion rates. A new study pinpoints the possible culprit: widespread and intentional use of helmets during player-to-player contact, often to defenseless players, and usually without a penalty being called.

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NFHS Partners with USTA to Promote No-Cut Policy for High School Tennis Teams [114]

Three cheers to the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS), which announced today that it is partnering with the United States Tennis Association to support and promote USTA's "no-cut" policy for high school tennis teams.

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