by Tobin Walsh
During our tenure of three soccer-playing kids and thousands of games and tournaments, until this past weekend I had managed to somehow avoid my little Messi’s participating in any tournament taking place at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports in Orlando, Continue reading What to expect if your kid plays at ESPN’s Wide World of Expense – I mean – Sports 🙂
“This plan has been driven by God.” The way Jim Felce tells the story, divine intervention first put a golf club in this daughter, Nicole’s, hand. “I was in Ross and looking to buy a toy baseball set,” explains Jim, Continue reading The Nicole Felce Story: Family, Faith, and Fortitude to Chase Her LPGA Dreams at Age 17
As the latest group of 20-something millionaires are introduced to America via tonight’s NFL Draft, you are bound to hear the ESPN broadcast contingent describe each player with splashy superlatives – a “gamer”, a cerebral player, a “grinder”, or a Continue reading NFL Draft Superlatives Applied to Kids
Trends that begin at the top levels of sports often trickle downward, infiltrating the neighborhood recreational soccer field or the little league baseball diamond down the street. Ronaldo’s celebration after a goal. The “Griddy” touchdown dance made famous my NFL Continue reading Pro Athletes are “Pausing”: Why can’t our kids?
Recently, I spent three days absorbing as much Disney as possible with four of my children (ages 5 through 14) in Orlando. In this three part series, I’ll provide an unsolicited, unsponsored view of what we saw, spent, enjoyed, and Continue reading Disney for Days (and Dollars),Part I: Hollywood Studios
An Ivy League swimming competition would never fall on my sports radar. This year, though, a headline caught my eye from the competition – one of Lia Thomas, a transgender woman, winning the conference championship in the 200 freestyle. Not Continue reading I support transgender female athletes…until my daughter is impacted
**** WTR (What’s Toby Reading)? provides unsolicited and unsponsored (I don’t get paid) opinions of books I have recently finished. **** Think your kid is destined to be great at golf? Tiger Woods first broke 50 at age 3! Yes, Continue reading WTR: Tiger and Phil: Golf’s Most Fascinating Rivalry by Bob Harig
**** WTR (What’s Toby Reading)? provides unsolicited and unsponsored (I don’t get paid) opinions of books I have recently finished. **** I didn’t have to read deeply, before realizing the privileged lens I had after picking up the Los Angeles Continue reading WTR: Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised by Carmelo Anthony
Sunday late afternoon was the best – a quick Florida “cold” snap, an afternoon free of soccer games, and all of my kids on the couch, watching football together. The three hours of chatting about what the tremendous competition we Continue reading Cheering for a GREAT Football Player and BAD Human Being – What is a parent to do?
No matter where you live, if you have kids playing sports you’ve probably paid your registration fees and asked yourself, “Where does all this money go?” I know I do (far too often for my wife’s liking). That curiosity generally Continue reading In it for the Kids (and CASH): A Closer look into Tampa Bay Youth $occer