Youth ACL tears up
Youth league athletes are suffering big league injuries — at least it’s being reported more often, The New York Times reported today. “Although there are no complete or official numbers, orthopedists...
View ArticleThe Young and the Injured
Yet another story of younger and younger pitchers getting Tommy John’s surgery. It has become commonplace, it seems. From the Houston Chronicle: “Dads thinking (their sons) have to win at all costs at...
View ArticleACL pops on the rise
This year, a high school soccer player has blogged about the “rough-and-tumble world of girls soccer” for the TimesUnion.com (Albany, N.Y.) Web site — just in time to describe a common injury among...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Roundup: injuries, courts and Snoop
Here’s a Thursday morning roundup of youth sports coverage from around the Web … Leave it to the NCAA to be concerned about student athletes welfare. Seriously. At the NCAA’s annual meeting near...
View ArticleCheerleading leads danger zone
The most dangerous women’s sport in America is cheerleading, said the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. About 65 percent of...
View ArticleAce arms continue to fail
When the zany Deadspin sports blog gets ahold of a topic as delicate as the health of youngsters, you know something’s gone awry. However, yesterday’s post about the overuse of Little Leaguers’ arms is...
View Article
