Articles from the September 24, 2020 edition

Steve Morris, Author What Size Balls do I Need|Sep 24, 2020

"What do you know about coaching?" The question was valid; it was the sneer that got me. I turned into the narrow, skeptical eyes that pierced me from the passenger seat. "Huh? What do you know about coaching?" He might have been only five, but my son Evan could take me out at the knees as wickedly as any seasoned defensive back in the NFL. I'd just told him that I was pulling him out of a soccer program run by a popular but capricious coach, and enrolling him in mine . . . which didn't exist...