Ask the Experts
I sweat like crazy when I run outside. But it’s cold out. How should I dress and know when to keep a hat on or take it off?—Jenna, 16, CPW
Ask the Experts
I sweat like crazy when I run outside. But it’s cold out. How should I dress and know when to keep a hat on or take it off?—Jenna, 16, CPW
Brooklyn Beat
In just one month, nearly 2,000 Little League players will start the 2009 baseball season in Prospect Park. The pint-sized players will be joined by their friends, families, local community lead
Brooklyn Beat
In just one month, nearly 2,000 Little League players will start the 2009 baseball season in Prospect Park. The pint-sized players will be joined by their friends, families, local community lead
Brooklyn Beat
All it takes is an idea and the will to make it work. A new NFL sponsored Flag Football league was started in September of 2007 by Tom & Barbara Henderson, board members of SFX Youth Sports in Park Slope.
Close-Up
Sunil Weeramantry originally tried to steer his young stepson, Hikaru Nakamura, away from playing competitive chess. Hikaru’s accomplished older brother, Asuka, was winning national tournaments from an early age and Sunil thought there was no way Hikaru could keep up with him.
Close-Up
Sunil Weeramantry originally tried to steer his young stepson, Hikaru Nakamura, away from playing competitive chess. Hikaru’s accomplished older brother, Asuka, was winning national tournaments from an early age and Sunil thought there was no way Hikaru could keep up with him.
Culture
Don’t let his size fool you: At a skinny 6-feet, the Panther’s Terrel Phelps is playing some big time basketball. In just the sixth game of the season, Phelps became the fastest player in school history to reach 1,000 points. He is just a junior, and his basketball potential is still on the rise. Since that game he has gotten around 300 additional points, and says getting to the 2,000-point plateau is “a real possibility.”
Culture
Don’t let his size fool you: At a skinny 6-feet, the Panther’s Terrel Phelps is playing some big time basketball. In just the sixth game of the season, Phelps became the fastest player in school history to reach 1,000 points. He is just a junior, and his basketball potential is still on the rise. Since that game he has gotten around 300 additional points, and says getting to the 2,000-point plateau is “a real possibility.”
Culture
For 84 years, the Harlem Globetrotters—the “clown Princes” of the hardwood, magicians of basketball—have dazzled audiences across 118 countries. They’ve had their own cartoon TV show and have shared the animated with heavyweights like Scooby-Doo and Muhammad Ali. Coming off the most successful year in the franchise’s amazing history, breaking 62 box office records and over two million smiling fans, the “world’s most famous” basketball team is primed to showcase their eyepopping 2010 World Tour in New York City on Friday, Feb. 12, with the wholesome family entertainment known worldwide for thrilling fans young and old and making cherished family memories.
Culture
Henry Cerudo is the youngest American gold medalist ever in free-style wrestling winning the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He has a new memoir, American Victory: Wrestling, Dreams and a Journey Toward Home, which came out January 5th. He’s also a HUGE advocate and mentor for NYC’s own Beat the Streets Wrestling. This is one inspiring and inspired human being.
Culture
Every Thanksgiving Day since what feels like the beginning of time, Fordham Prep and Xavier High School have played each other in a football game. The Hatfields and the McCoys have nothing on this feud.
Culture
There is drama. There is emotion There is comedy. Check out these 2 sports flicks hitting the big screen near you.
Culture
If the ascent to Jewish adulthood isn’t complete without actually climbing (like Moses at Sinai), Brooklyn Boulders is the perfect place to hold a party.
Culture
When 10-year-old Brody Rettle goes back to school this fall, he will be able to tell his classmates that he hung out with Derek Jeter, tried to block Yao Ming’s 8-foot jump shot, or even that he stood toe-to-toe with legendary boxer Muhammad Ali.
Culture
New York City has always seemed like the perfect venue for skateboarding. A ton of parks, plenty of concrete, and enough ledges, benches, and rails to go around.
Culture
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “among all high school seniors who have ever used spit tobacco; almost threefourths began by the time they were in ninth grade.” Smokeless tobacco can lead to oral cancer and gum disease; it also increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and heart attacks. It is addictive. Not to mention, evidence shows that adolescent boys who use smokeless tobacco products have a higher risk of becoming cigarette smokers within four years.
FYI
These days, people are more active, more interested and more educated than ever before. We’re trained in fitness, sports, healthy eating—even iPhones. It’s almost impossible to accurately describe anyone simply using the word "trainer." In honor of National Athletic Training Month, we want to share with you the fundamental differences between an athletic trainer and a personal trainer.
FYI
These days, people are more active, more interested and more educated than ever before. We’re trained in fitness, sports, healthy eating—even iPhones. It’s almost impossible to accurately describe anyone simply using the word "trainer." In honor of National Athletic Training Month, we want to share with you the fundamental differences between an athletic trainer and a personal trainer.
FYI
The Hugh L. Carey Battery Park City Authority announced in February that it selected the venerable New York City-based not-for-profit, Asphalt Green, to operate its new stateof-the-art, 52,000-square-foot community center, which will be located in the base of Liberty Green and Liberty Luxe, two residential towers located on North End Avenue between Murray and Warren Streets. The center is slated to open in January 2012. Here, New York Family Sports will give you a sneak peak at the plans for the brand new center that is sure to bring the excellence of Asphalt Green’s Upper East Side sports programs to families all across Manhattan.
FYI
If you've spent any time in Riverside Park, you’ve most certainly noticed the buzz of contagious laughter and enthusiasm pouring off the baseball diamonds. Those are the Kids of Summer. Their practices and games not only instruct droves of Manhattan’s youth, but also provide a one-of-a-kind day camp experience.
FYI
Whether you are 13 or 31, the Camp of Champions (COC) snowboard, ski and mountain bike camp at Whistler Blackcomb offers enthusiasts the opportunity of a lifetime—the chance to train with the pros and spend a summer in the snow.
FYI
The second annual MSC Kick-off Classic Tournament needs you! Volunteers are being sought right now to help run the tournament, which takes place March 5-7 on Randall’s Island, Icahn Stadium and Tibbetts Brook Soccer Field in Yonkers. The inaugural 2009 MSC Kick-off Classic was a huge success, quickly putting MSC on the map as one of the top youth soccer tournaments in the Northeast, and this year, with boys’ and girls’ teams in the U10-U16 age groups, promises to be even bigger.
FYI
Camp Winaukee is a prestigious all-boys, all-sports, all-day sleep away camp located on the pine scented shores of gorgeous Lake Winnipesauke in New Hampshire. I spent five summers there where I learned skills in every sport imaginable from Division I college athletes and coaches, the great preponderance of whom came from North Carolina. Most of the campers hailed from New York and New Jersey.
FYI
You play sports. You play hard. And sometimes you think to yourself, “What would I do right now if I hurt my teeth?” But you’re a tough, trained competitor. You have no fear in a situation like that. You just want to fix it. Keep playing. You want a solution.
FYI
The Metropolitan Wrestling Association and Beat the Streets Wrestling, Inc., in conjunction with the Mayor’s Office, The NYC Sports Commission, the Harlem Armory and the three groups that offer high school wrestling in the city (the PSAL; the CHSAA; the NYSAISAA) will host the seventh year of the Mayor’s Cup of wrestling at the Harlem Armory.
Just last month, on a picture perfect summer’s day, I was walking through the streets of Laguna Beach, California—about as far west of New York as you can get—when I walked past an elderly man who had a chess board set up on a picnic table overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
FYI
It’s the still the No. 1 youth sport in NYC. It just is.
News & Features
Asphalt Green’s Frozen Ropes baseball league and training program focuses on teaching baseball skills through in-game situations. It was program head Dan Hummel’s career as a major league catcher that made him tailor the focus to in-game situations. “The catcher tries to control as much as he can during a game, or at least as much as the pitcher lets him,” he says with a laugh. “The priority is on game play and making sure skills taught through drills translate to the field.”
News & Features
Asphalt Green’s Frozen Ropes baseball league and training program focuses on teaching baseball skills through in-game situations. It was program head Dan Hummel’s career as a major league catcher that made him tailor the focus to in-game situations. “The catcher tries to control as much as he can during a game, or at least as much as the pitcher lets him,” he says with a laugh. “The priority is on game play and making sure skills taught through drills translate to the field.”
News & Features
3rd Avenue Sportscenter 800 3rd Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232-1510 718-965-0004 www.3rdavenuesportscenter.com The ultimate family entertainment center in Brooklyn, featuring arcades, a basketball arena, a new kiddie area, six machine-operated batting cages, plus a live Hitting & Pitching Tunnel.
News & Features
With many Americans glued to their TVs last month watching the Olympic Games in Vancouver, there has been much focus on athletes’ training regimens. However, some of New York City’s top trainers say that teens don’t have to be Olympic hopefuls to benefit from their services.
News & Features
There's nothing like gliding gracefully, or not so gracefully, across the ice with the wind in your hair and the New York City skyline as your backdrop. Ice skating is fun and it's good exercise. Hockey, figure skating, or freestyling, New York City has some great ice for everyone. Here's a little list for you to consider while you chilling out this month.
News & Features
At a basketball court in PS 163 in Manhattan, Nate McGrory stands at the three point line. Dribbling a basketball, he talks to the 10 basketball players assembled in front of him. “When I get the ball, take a step towards me. You want to take one step toward the ball as soon as your man gets it.”
News & Features
NBA powerhouse Dwight Howard to appear on a new episode of The Electric Company, Friday February 5th. Check out the details here! By bringing back The Electric Company for a second season, Sesame is continuing to pave the way for kids to make the transition from ‘learning to read’ to ‘reading to learn.'
News & Features
If a tree falls in the woods but nobody hears it, did it really fall? If a track team runs without a track, did they really run? In a city besieged with financial downfalls and setbacks, one man is reaching out and literally trying to get things back on track. Ron Guialdo, a Trinidadian, and legendary in the competitive running world, has captured the hearts and minds of a dozen children living in Chelsea while on his quest to transform their potential into reality through his love of track and field.
News & Features
Pro football is the most popular sport in America, but you wouldn’t necessarily know that by looking at the playing fields of New York City.
News & Features
Celebrities do it, professional sports teams do it—and now yoga is gaining popularity with New York City teens.
News & Features
Come to Pier 40 on Saturday, October 10th to participate in a Tournament to help Support the City Soccer Iniative sponsored by DUSC and the Liverpool FC Supporters of NY.
NYFS Classic
I met Lee in kindergarten. He liked the Cowboys. I liked the Redskins. It’s always been that way. Still is. Other than that, very little has ever separated us. We grew up two blocks from e
NYFS Classic
I met Lee in kindergarten. He liked the Cowboys. I liked the Redskins. It’s always been that way. Still is. Other than that, very little has ever separated us. We grew up two blocks from e
PGS
There seems to be some confusion about the roles and qualifi cations which separate personal trainers from athletic trainers. To help solve this apparent mystery, the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) issued a brochure outlining the differences between the two types of fi tness mavens. NATA has also let us know that March is Athletic Training Month (“Sports safety is a team effort” is the slogan). One telltale sign that someone is an athletic trainer is the alphabet soup that follows their names on business cards or email signatures. Athletic trainers have ATC (Athletic Trainer Certifi cation), sometimes followed by CSCS (Certifi ed Strength and Conditioning Specialist) behind their names.
PGS
There seems to be some confusion about the roles and qualifi cations which separate personal trainers from athletic trainers. To help solve this apparent mystery, the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) issued a brochure outlining the differences between the two types of fi tness mavens. NATA has also let us know that March is Athletic Training Month (“Sports safety is a team effort” is the slogan). One telltale sign that someone is an athletic trainer is the alphabet soup that follows their names on business cards or email signatures. Athletic trainers have ATC (Athletic Trainer Certifi cation), sometimes followed by CSCS (Certifi ed Strength and Conditioning Specialist) behind their names.
PGS
After talking to Buckie Leach, it becomes evident that fencing is New York City’s version of college football. This metropolis has scant credentials in the NCAA pigskin department, unlike, say, boring cowtowns like Columbus, Ohio, or Ann Arbor, Mich. But when it comes to swordplay, Gotham is Alabama, Texas, Ohio State, USC and the University of Florida all rolled into one. If there was a BCS for refined, gentlemanly hand-to-hand combat, it would be based in Manhattan.
PGS
I had high hopes for my young nephews back in Ohio. Two of them seemed poised to eventually have their names called in MLB’s inappropriately-named “First Year Player Draft.” But by the time they got to high school, they gave up the diamond for the hardwood of the basketball floor. Why? They didn’t like their baseball coaches at the Babe Ruth and high school levels. No one did, they said. These “coaches” were dead-end characters toting clipboards, according to the lads.
PGS
Perhaps it is easiest to start with an excerpt from the Original Play website: “Original Play is a physiological and psychological process.
PGS
She earned her first national medal in the sport at age 14. At the Summer Olympics in Atlanta in 1996, she won the gold medal as part of the “Magnificent Seven” U.S. women’s gymnastic squad, using a riveting floor exercise to seal the deal and earn her nickname “Awesome Dawesome.”
PGS
He has the power to declare every lunch period a “pizza day” and he might even know the ingredients in the mythical school cafeteria dish known as “tuna surprise.”
PGS
There is a new Boss in town. And it is the Business of Sports School, a new high school opening this fall in Midtown, part of the city administration’s effort to update its vocational and trade schools.
PGS
When high schoolers describe their classwork as a “grind,” they mean it in a literal sense when they’ve enrolled in Billy Rohan’s skateboarding course. Rohan, a 28-year-old pro skateboarder who lives in Williamsburg, teaches a physical education skateboarding class at three of New York City’s public schools.
PGS
Deoxyribonucleic acid—or, DNA as it is more commonly known—used to be the stuff of biology classrooms and X-Men comic books. These days it is the centerpiece for TV cop shows and various other forms of science fiction come to life. The reality is that there’s a company based in Boulder, Colorado—an offshoot of a firm specializing in athletic improvement and talent measurement—that now offers a DNA test that screens broad, general types of sports abilities in humans. Basically, for $150, you can have your child tested to see if he or she has a propensity to become a sprinter or long distance runner or swimmer, etc. It is all based on the alphabet soup of genetics, specifically the presence of the ACTN3 gene.
PGS
The wee hours on WFAN AM Sports 660 can be both a lonely place and a destination for airwave psychos. As the sun rises on Sunday mornings, while many New Yorkers reach for remedies to “take the edge off” the Sports Edge is just coming on. From 8 to 9 a.m. every Sunday for the past dozen years, former coach, author and sports psychologist Rick Wolff hosts “The Sports Edge,” which focuses on issues facing parents of young athletes. And thank God he does. Wolff played baseball at Harvard, was drafted his junior year by the Detroit Tigers, played some minor league ball, then coached baseball at Mercy College for eight years.
Q&A
What if you had Heather Thai’s life? You woke up every morning—winter, spring summer or fall—wherever you were and you wanted to play volleyball.
Q&A
What if you had Heather Thai’s life? You woke up every morning—winter, spring summer or fall—wherever you were and you wanted to play volleyball.
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