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• Effort to Get Metal to Act Like Wood

  The National Collegiate Athletic Association has ordered manufacturers to make high-tech bats behave more like wood bats by 2011, calling for adjustments to virtually all the bats now in play. Posted Friday, October 17, 2008 10:20 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: College Athletics, Baseball, Amateur Athletics, National Collegiate Athletic Assn, Children and Youth, Accidents and Safety, Little League, Wood and Wood Products, baseball bats

• Race and Background Contribute to a Sports Gender Gap, Study Finds

  A study found that girls who are nonwhite, from immigrant backgrounds or live in urban areas are less likely to be physically active than boys, unlike children in suburban areas. Posted Wednesday, October 08, 2008 8:51 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Athletics and Sports, Women, Children and Youth, Immigration and Refugees, Race, Urban Areas

• N.F.L. Sets an Active Example on Fitness

  The N.F.L., full of 300-pound men and reliant on the schools that promote large boys, would seem an incongruous standard-bearer in the fight against childhood obesity. Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 9:06 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Football, National Football League, Children and Youth, Obesity

• From Family Room to Finish Line

  BMX fuels its rise by accommodating riders of all ages and generation gaps are bridged by airborne bicycles. Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 9:32 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Children and Youth, Families and Family Life, Bicycle Motocross

• Distractions From Text Messages Are Seen as Dangerous

  There is anecdotal evidence that texting while doing something else is causing more fatal accidents. Posted Friday, September 19, 2008 10:51 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: National Collegiate Athletic Assn, Children and Youth, Accidents and Safety, Text Messaging

• Winning Against Hopelessness

  Roynell Young, the former defensive back for the Eagles, has dedicated his post-football career to helping at-risk youth. Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 11:54 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Football, National Football League, Houston (Tex), Children and Youth, Nonprofit Organizations, Young, Roynell

• Our Towns: In This League, ‘Yer Out’ Doesn’t Come From Ump

  Little league officials in Connecticut say that a young player is too good to pitch and that other children are afraid to bat against him. Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 9:53 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Baseball, Children and Youth, Connecticut, Little League

• Sports of The Times: From Tennis’s Outer Edge, a Vision for Its Future

  Asia Muhammad, 17, lost on Monday at the U.S. Open. Yet with the tactical support of Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf, she has a chance to march in a future anniversary parade of champs. Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 9:54 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Tennis, Children and Youth, United States Open (Tennis), Agassi, Andre, Graf, Steffi

• Quake Victims in China Rally From Painful Losses

  Far from Beijing and its gathering of Olympic athletes, victims of the earthquake that devastated Sichuan Province learn to use prosthetic limbs at a medical center. Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 10:44 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: China, Olympic Games (2008), Handicapped, Children and Youth, Medicine and Health, Earthquakes, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Physical Therapy, Chengdu (China)

• Sports of The Times: Athletes Only as Old as China Says They Are

  If these Olympics were being held in the U.S. instead of in Beijing, the issue of possibly underage Chinese gymnasts would by now be a serious cable television cause célèbre. Posted Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:45 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Children and Youth, Television, Gymnastics

• For Many Student Athletes, Game Over

  As cash-strapped school districts across the nation scale back sports programs, some fear that the tradition of the scholar athlete is at risk. Posted Sunday, July 27, 2008 9:44 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Athletics and Sports, Education and Schools, Children and Youth, Budgets and Budgeting

• Lakers’ Fisher Makes His Plea for All to See

  Roughly a year after Derek Fisher gave a live interview on TNT describing his daughter’s battle with eye cancer, the impact of that unscripted moment is still being felt. Posted Saturday, June 14, 2008 8:43 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Cancer, National Basketball Assn, Children and Youth, Medicine and Health, Los Angeles Lakers, Families and Family Life, Chemotherapy, Fisher, Derek, Eyes and Eyesight

• Children’s Books: A League of Their Own

  Two new books tell the story of African-American baseball before Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Posted Saturday, June 14, 2008 2:50 AM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Baseball, Children and Youth, Blacks, Books and Literature, Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow (Book), Sturm, James, Tommaso, Rich, Nelson, Kadir, We Are the Ship (Book), Negro League

• Sports of The Times: Helping Young Golfers Shoot for the Stars

  The City Parks Foundation’s junior golf program introduces golf to kids who might otherwise not have access to the sport. Posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 9:33 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Golf, Children and Youth, New York City, City Parks Foundation, Carty, Brian

• Dominican Crackdown Leaves Children of Haitian Immigrants in Legal Limbo

  The Dominican Republic has sought to exclude Dominican-born children of migrants from receiving citizenship, a measure that has particularly affected the children of ethnic Haitians. Posted Sunday, May 25, 2008 1:41 AM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Dominican Republic, Politics and Government, Children and Youth, Immigration and Refugees, Haiti, Freedom and Human Rights, Constitutions, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Citizenship, Discrimination