Parenting
fromSlate Magazine
43 minutes agoMy Daughter's Sport Has Taken a Sudden Turn. She's Too Young for This.
Introducing skill testing in sports for young children can be appropriate if they have prior experience and are ready for growth.
Before the puck drops, a parent must drain their pockets to outfit their child from head to toe. Skates, a helmet, shoulder pads, elbow pads, shin guards, gloves, hockey pants, neck guard, a stick, a mouth guard and a bag large enough to hold it all, is just the beginning. Even modest equipment purchases can reach $600 to $1,500 in the first year alone.
Raised in Oakland by a family with Raiders season tickets, early photos show her dressed in team gear even as a baby. One of Stewart's vivid childhood memories is of one time at the Coliseum when the referee blew a call that went against the Raiders and the crowd erupted in a chant that was about, well, bovine feces.
Jack Hughes's overtime goal to win Olympic gold is hockey history, maybe the single most important physical object in American hockey history. The Hughes puck is a pure distillation, the sudden-death difference between defeat and world-champ status in one small, black disc of vulcanized rubber and entrance-fee bait.
Having previously played for the San Jose Sharks' developmental program, Landon Marleau eventually started playing for the Wellington Dukes of the Ontario Junior Hockey League before recently getting called up by the Kingston Frontenacs. During his debut, which saw the Frontenacs lose 3-2 to the Brantford Bulldogs, Landon Marleau registered two shots, with one of them being a scoring chance.
It's time for the CIF state championships in basketball and soccer (first time for soccer) in Sacramento on Friday and Saturday. Basketball will be played at Golden 1 Center. Soccer is at Natomas High.
When you have guys like Connor McDavid, Nathan MacKinnon, Sidney Crosby, and Cale Makar all combining on a line of their own it is hard to imagine having anything better, and with a lot of fans already talking about this Canadian team being the best of all time, it is almost impossible to believe it could get any better, but it can.
Aissatou Fall was a key player as Senegal made it through to the quarter-finals for just the second time in their history. Despite being just 17 years old, she played every single minute of Senegal's tournament in Morocco, helping the Lionesses to keep two clean sheets in four games.
Wednesday is National Girls & Women in Sports Day, so why not salute Girls Athletic Leadership School Los Angeles, the only public, all-girls middle school in California. The school is expanding its no-cost soccer program after receiving a $ 26,000 grant for being selected one of 26 Community Champions as part of the World Cup coming to Los Angeles.
All three of the U.S.'s opponents are ranked 30th or higher, with Argentina at No. 30, Canada at No. 10, and Colombia at No. 20. The U.S. women are ranked second behind Spain. Colombia was a finalist at the 2025 Copa América Feminina, having beaten Argentina in the semifinals via a penalty shootout following an epic 4-4 draw.