High School Baseball - In Trouble?
May 5th, 2008 by d.grossman
Baseball - as a high school sport in the Greater Toronto Area - is in trouble.
It has nothing to do with lack of interest, since there are teams, but more like how do you run a league that starts in May and ends four weeks later?
Something like exams get in the way and the annual […]
Reaction from Listeners
April 28th, 2008 by d.grossman
No sooner was the “High School Show” over for another week, and I decided to check my computer for e-mails.
Yikes. An e-mail from a woman, I won’t mention her name, very upset that we devoted an entire show to male sports. Well, for the record, there was a female in-studio guest, and I know we had at […]
Ultimate Frisbee
April 20th, 2008 by d.grossman
Got this e-mail from someone who believes high school Ultimate Frisbee does wonders for certain athletes.
You have to be kidding me.
Ultimate Frisbee belongs in the same package of whatever as badminton. They are games for a summer BBQ visiting grandparents.
Whoever brought Ultimate Frisbee to high schools had far too much time on their plate and […]
Baseball
April 20th, 2008 by d.grossman
High school baseball is big stuff in the Greater Toronto Area.
More teams than ever. So far, so good.
But a mixture of wet fields from the long winter, also municipal bureaucrats calling the shots on availability of ball diamonds and the various Boards of Education reluctant to turn just one corner of an all-purpose field in to […]
High School Girls’ Hockey
April 20th, 2008 by d.grossman
Lots of chatter these days about the decision by the provincial organization responsible for school sports to prevent girls - those chosen to Canadian National Junior hockey teams (i.e. Under-18) - from playing for their high school.
Hmm.
They say “parity” is important.
OK.
But if that’s the case, then why isn’t the same organization - the Ontario Federation of […]
