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BILL WELLS
December 28, 2008
Editor's note: Youth sports should be fun, right? Unfortunately, that's not always the case. In a six-part "Youth Sports Spotlight" series, Bill Wells writes about whether there is indeed enough fun in youth sports these days. Part 2: Tom Farrey, author of "Game On: The All-American Race to Make Champions of Our Children."
ESPN reporter Tom Farrey grew up in Florida, where he spent his youth with a mixture of free play and organized sports in the 1970s.
When his oldest son joined his first athletic team six years ago, Farrey noticed there was a change in the landscape of youth sports. As he drove his son to practices, and as he sat through games, something didn't seem right.
"In the mid-1990s, something changed, and that's what my book was about," said Farrey, author of "Game On: The All-American Race to Make Champions of Our Children." "Why did things change, and how did we get to this place where things on their face are more competitive than ever before? Why has youth sports become so competitive, so organized, and so intense so early on? I became driven to answer that question?"
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