Category Archives: Pop’s Culture

Before I moved to Maryland all I knew was baseball. If you ask anyone in my family, it was by far my best sport. When I moved to downtown port deposit we didn’t have any where to play baseball and didn’t know anyone who played little league. So basketball became life.We would play whiffleball onContinueContinue reading “If you don’t know, now ya know”

So many parents today have good intentions but are ruining sports for their kids. Which is hurting their personal relationship with their kids. I work with my son daily on improving athletically. It always starts with me wanting him to be great and sometimes ends with him upset and crying because I let my goodContinueContinue reading “Don’t be that Parent”

Now more than ever before in human history kids today are inactive, weak, entitled and…..LAZY.  We have been progressing in this direction for many generations now. If you don’t believe me ask your parents what their parents thought and said to them. Humans are progressively getting worse, because life is becoming easier. The smarter weContinueContinue reading “Cultivate Greatness”

We all are away that tomorrow isn’t guaranteed, so we should live in and for the moment. Unfortunately or fortunately tomorrow comes so you have to be prepared for it. These times are tough, with Covid, job loses, new president, common core math, murder hornets, and bills. That all and more makes it very hardContinueContinue reading “The Future isn’t Promised….”

I was an athlete before I was a parent, I was very selfish but also pretty good at sports. Spent many years on the court and field with the kids on the sidelines watching or at home without me. I was very fortunate to have people in my life who allowed me to play sportsContinueContinue reading “Athlete, Parent, Coach”

I get asked this 15 times a week as a how do you teach passion or to get kids to give a shit.This is the realest answer I can come up with…You have to show them your passion. If you want them to give a shit you gotta give more shits.When kids make a mistakeContinueContinue reading “SHOW THEM”

Starting something new is scary, even for coaches. Are kids going to show up? Are parents going to buy into our style? Can we get the kids to buy in? Why are we even doing this, when we could just join another team already established?Truth he told you don’t know until you do it. Don’tContinueContinue reading “Fear, Work, Teamwork.”

One of the greatest take always from my childhood is that I never really knew we were poor. We moved a lot but always had everything we needed and sometimes a little more. As I got older I realized more that we didn’t have as much as most of my friends, but also had moreContinueContinue reading “Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself….. Well some of me.”

The world we live in is changing everyday at a pace that is impossible to keep up with, yet the vast majority of us are trying . We have access to every question and answer we imaginable and I am starting to think that its not a good thing. We are so obsessed with thingsContinueContinue reading “Overdosing on Content”