An NBA player was quoted on a podcast as saying if your kid is good enough to be competitive then they’re too competitive to pay to play. It was a comment on the pyramid scam of youth travel leagues. Parents lit him up in the comments. I was reminded that no one likes to know they’re being scammed.
And a hearty fuck you to B1G-minus !!!
To everyone else who make Bluesky The Place For Sports™️
Let’s go get some interior help and get these juniors a FF run.
Tressie McMillan Cottom
To @accxrdingtochar.bsky.social @alongcamepoly4thew.bsky.social @cinquinho.bsky.social @hooverstreetrag.org @sportsgeek42.bsky.social @senorblanxo.bsky.social @yinkadoubledare.bsky.social @yoshfriedman.bsky.social @hjbosch21.bsky.social for bringing the good vibes for my first proper WBB season &tc
I’m thinking about disseminating an account of a baseball game without the express written consent of Major League Baseball
Buried in here is another data point for an obsession of mine: kids sports “travel teams” are insane, a huge drian on financial resources, and the free time of particulalry moms.
And for what? The dream of athletic scholarships? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/u...
Ghana, who Panama opens its World Cup against, has just 'parted ways' with manager Otto Addo.
The Black Stars fell 5-1 to Austria & 2-1 to Germany this window & lost both Nov. friendlies too but lost just once in WCQ.
www.ghanafa.org/gfa-part-way...
Subscribers to the Bear Necessities should be aware that it is not exclusively a basketball blog. This offseason I'll be back with extremely different material!
