My daughter and I leave tomorrow morning for a hockey trip to Duluth. The girls will be building friendships, learning about themselves as athletes and as teammates, and playing some good hockey. The parents will be partying. I am willing to roll our kids from rink to rink, […]
Winning feels good. Scoring goals, having a shutout, and performing well feels good. Losing hurts, as does poor performance or lack of production. From the perspective of an athlete who has felt all of those emotions as a player, I still struggle with how to get rid of those feelings when I watch […]
I spend my weekends surrounded by fans. This weekend, there were fans in my family room watching Thanksgiving football. There were cheering and jeering fans at Buffalo Wild Wings and there were fans at each of the hockey games I attended too. The thing is, I’m a pretty pathetic fan. I […]
We spend a lot of our time in cars headed to practices and games. We spend even more time on the fields and in the rinks where the cars end up. We tell people we are a sporting family, but it is really important to us to maintain […]
The Team Adult Playbook 