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Mark Hyman

Until It Hurts

America's Obsession with Youth Sports and How It Harms Our Kids

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This hair-raising look at everything that is wrong with youth sports today-its perils, its history, its key drivers-is a powerful call for positive change (Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights)Over the last seventy-five years, adults have staged a hostile takeover of kids' sports. In 2003 alone, more than 3.5 million children under age fifteen required medical treatment for sports injuries-nearly half of which were the result of simple overuse. The quest to turn children into tomorrow's superstar athletes has often led adults to push them beyond physical and emotional limits.In Until It Hurts, journalist, coach, and sports dad Mark H… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8070-9756-4
  • EAN: 9780807097564
  • Produktnummer: 15727760
  • Verlag: Beacon Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Seitenangabe: 160 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 192 KB

Über den Autor


Mark Hyman is a journalist, frequently contributing to publications, such as The New York Times and Sports Illustrated, and he was a former writer for BusinessWeek and Sports Business Journal. In 1998, he assisted Baseball Hall of Fame broadcaster Jon Miller in the writing of his memoir, Confessions of a Baseball Purist. He has appeared on panels and led workshops for the Sports Lawyers Association, the American Press Institute and the Associated Press Sports Editors. In 2010 he was honored as one of 18 Sports Ethics Fellows by the Institute for International Sport at the University of Rhode Island and the Positive Coaching Alliance at Stanford University. He currently teaches in the sports management program at George Washington University.

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