Showing posts with label youth programs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label youth programs. Show all posts
Saturday, February 13, 2016

Is broadcaster Stephen A. Smith the ‘voice of reason’ standing up for our freedom to express ourselves?

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Remember the Jackie Robinson West youth baseball program on the city’s South Side? They’re the ones who nearly won the Little League World...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Is Robinson, Ripken, Ruth youth baseball trifecta the best solution?

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Perhaps it only makes sense that if the entity known as Little League Baseball wants to treat its 2014 U.S. champions as a pariah, that prog...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

EXTRA: JRW -4/Seoul - 8

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Ugh!!! Not only did the U.S.-representing team from the Roseland neighborhood-based Jackie Robinson West baseball league manage to blow a ...
Saturday, August 23, 2014

EXTRA: Jackie Robinson baseball now far bigger than Defender sports pages

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It was earlier this past week that I happened to be in the Pullman neighborhood when 9 th Ward Alderman Anthony Beale got a crowd of 40...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

Sout’ Side (but not the White Sox) make it to a ‘World Series’ of sorts

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Baseball fans oriented to the South Side have something to cheer about this season – and not just the fact that Cuban sensation Jose Abr...
Friday, August 5, 2011

What is safety? What is politicking?

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I have no objection to regulatory measures meant to protect the public safety. There are times when it takes the presence of government to e...