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Making Headlines

Most volunteer youth coaches serve for the right reasons and deserve recognition for the positive difference they make in children’s lives.

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Although only 3 percent of volunteer youth sports coaches are real jerks, they monopolize 95 percent of the media’s attention.

How do I know this? At our headquarters we continually receive reports from around the country of everything that is wrong with youth sports. You know what I’m talking about because you’ve read some of these accounts yourself.

There’s the fighting, bloodshed, arrest warrants and assault charges--all those ridiculous behaviors that make a mockery of youth sports--while traumatizing who knows how many children in the process.