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

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


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About the Book

In the last few decades, adults have staged a hostile takeover of sports for kids. Today, youth sports have never been more closely supervised by adults — or more dangerous. The quest to turn children into tomorrow’s superstars has led to adults pushing them beyond physical and emotional limits, sometimes with tragic consequences. Until It Hurts offers an analysis of how youth sports evolved into its current problematic state of being, gives heartbreaking examples of the extent to which some children and their families are harmed by the youth sports culture, and opens up a discussion of how positive change can be made.

About the Author :
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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Mark Hyman illustrates-through personal anecdotes and meticulous reporting-the transformative power of sports in the lives of young people. More important, he shows how adults are ruining the experience by turning youth sports into a high-pressure, big-money enterprise. When did kids' sports become more work than play? Until It Hurts provides the answer-and offers the solutions we've been looking for.—Joan Ryan, author of Little Girls in Pretty Boxes "A hair-raising look at everything that is wrong with youth sports today. Every parent and every coach who has ever been involved in youth sports and cares about kids has an obligation to read it."—Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights "It took a son's sore arm for Mark Hyman to recognize a hard truth: We're destroying youth sports, and maybe not even producing better athletes in the process. Until It Hurts is a sobering manifesto that should be required reading for every parent, coach, administrator, and referee. Though my daughter's U-7 soccer team doesn't know it, I've already implemented its smart, sensible, and long-overdue advice."—Stefan Fatsis, National Public Radio sports commentator and author of A Few Seconds of Panic and Word Freak "As his teenaged son undergoes major surgery so he can pitch again, a sports dad examines the physical and emotional minefield of youth sports and comes up with ideas to make it family-friendlier. If you've got a young jock in the house, this book is more important than a private coach."—Robert Lipsyte, author of Raiders Night "In this passionate and eye-opening book, Mark Hyman shows how helicopter parents, professionalized sports programs, and technological changes have produced a perfect storm-with our children's physical and mental well-being at the vortex."—Michael Kimmel, author of Manhood in America "Hyman has authored a richly detailed, eye-opening look at an America hell-bent on turning our children into 'winners'-no matter the physical or emotional cost. Important, compelling, and painfully honest, Until It Hurts looks in all the right directions, including the mirror." —Armen Keteyian, Chief Investigative Correspondent, CBS News


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780807021187
  • Publisher: Beacon Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Beacon Press
  • Height: 223 mm
  • No of Pages: 160
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Weight: 340 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0807021180
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: America's Obsession with Youth Sports and How It Harms Our Kids
  • Width: 145 mm


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