Picturepocket's Blog

Category: sports

  • Softball Season

    We attended our first high school softball game yesterday. Years ago, I played adult, slow-pitch, coed, city D-league, and have watched local farm-team baseball, but I didn’t know what the high school girls rules were. Here is a quick primer.  This was fast underhand pitch and the game play was tight. First off, there are only…

  • American Idol

    I watched an Oregon Duck football game the other weekend and was startled at how young all the players and cheerleaders looked. Every decade I age, but average age of the college athlete stays the same. They are all at the pinnacle of human physical condition. Like the Greeks and Romans, our culture is obsessed…

  • Life in the Margins

    One of the things that I am trying to do better with the kids is to build in margins. If we all have to be somewhere at a set time, then I schedule the drive time and parking. Then I add the time that it will take to find the children’s shoes and also go…

  • Faux Pas

    I thoroughly enjoyed the Olympics this year. One of my favorite parts about the games was the diversity of people participating and the variety of activities.  What I want to talk about is one of the controversies of this year’s Olympics. Not that controversy, I did not watch the opening ceremonies. Instead, I want…

  • Participation is the Goal

    I have been spending a big chunk of my summer holding down the metal bench beside our local pool. I have both the kids signed up for lessons with one in the morning and the other in the evening. My oldest has worked her way to highest level. We have gone all the from Catfish…

  • Family Fun Run

    Last place is not trying.

  • Doing What Scares Me

    If you want your kid to do sports, you have to be sporty too.

  • Women & Sports

    The bulk of sports is dominated by men, both as audiences and participants.