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A softball coach runs practice in the wind in March, keeps a book, manages a pitching rotation, answers texts from parents at ten at night, and oft...

Travel softball is the season that does not get a banquet. No school assembly, no yearbook page, no announcement over the PA. Just eleven months of...

Softball senior night usually happens on a spring afternoon with the sun low behind the outfield fence and half the crowd standing along the third ...

Booster clubs have a hard job. Raise money without annoying the same forty families over and over, and do it with volunteers who already have jobs....

A pep rally is a hard room. Eight hundred teenagers in a gym who did not choose to be there, a PA system that echoes, and a student council trying ...

Rugby sides tend to be tighter than most teams, partly because of the sport and partly because they usually have to fight for the field time, the f...

We make these in Baltimore, which is a reasonable claim to authority on lacrosse keepsakes. The sport grew up here. Half the people in our building...

Hockey families put in more hours than anyone in high school sports and get the least sleep doing it. Five in the morning at the rink, weekend tour...

Walk the parking lot after a charity scramble and you will find the honest review of your gift bag. Anything left in the cart or dropped in a trash...

From the first tee to the eighteenth green, a golfer's day is built out of small objects he cares about more than he admits. The glove, the marker,...

Field hockey players spend their fall on a turf field in weather nobody else is out in, playing a sport that gets a fraction of the attention footb...

In the first weeks after a loss, a family gets flowers, casseroles, and a great many cards. All of it is kind, and almost none of it is still there...