Two weeks ago I was invited by the editors at Huffington Post to participate in a special blog event.  

The invitation read: 

With March Madness igniting yet another wave of sports mania around the country, we'd like to take a moment to examine why sports mean so much to us as a society. We're hosting a mini blog series and social campaign leading up to the start of the tournament around the following prompt: Why are sports so valuable for our children to play?

For the post I submitted, click here [1].