David Sons

Follower of Jesus. Senior Pastor @fbcnorthaugusta. @NGreenvilleUniv & @sebts alum. Lifelong @Reds & @Bengals fan.

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@GamecockFB

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@BigRNation @coach_ashmore A great player for your program. @JavonRyans0 will make any defense better. Make an offer, Tony!

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Co-sign.

[Joe Catalano @Joey_Cats]

Zone defense should be outlawed in youth basketball.

[David Sons @dsons]

Imagine being a 35 year old unemployed dude on the couch in your parents basement finding out your regular lunchtime rerun of Babylon 5 has been replaced on SyFy by the WNBA Finals.

[Alex Weprin @alexweprin]

The WNBA decision to move game 6 of the finals to 12:30 PM Thursday will have an impact on its media coverage. USA Sports says that the game will not simulcast on CNBC, as its other games are (it will be during market hours). Instead it will simulcast on E! and Syfy.

[David Sons @dsons]

Perfection.

[William Payne @TweetsbyCoachP]

“Did you guys hear Tanners dad? We gotta block” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[David Sons @dsons]

@TaylorBurgess87 JUST PULL ALL THE WAY UP, SHARON!

[David Sons @dsons]

I cannot overemphasize how passionate I am about this very thing.

[Hans Fiene 🦬 @HansFiene]

Shane Gillis should do a joke about how parents are not efficient in the school drop off line so we can finally have a national conversation about that.

[David Sons @dsons]

@NateAFischer @SWBTS He’s also a Cubs fan.

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@GamecockFB

[Burgess Everett @burgessev]

No one wants to be accused of going to an Atlanta Hawks game

[David Sons @dsons]

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

[MLB @MLB]

Justin Verlander says goodbye to his teammates

And then holds his daughter’s hand as he leaves the mound 🥹

[David Sons @dsons]

Kamario Taylor is who we thought LaNorris Sellers was.

[David Sons @dsons]

Let the people say amen.

[Jonathan Sukhia @jon_s123]

College football lightning delays are getting absurd.

So I went down the rabbit hole: how many people have actually been killed by lightning during a Division I football game in the last 50 years?

Thread 🧵

[JT English @jt_english]

Critics show up to tell you what is broken.

Builders show up to create something beautiful and lasting.

In an age of critics, be a builder.

[David Sons @dsons]

@jaredcornutt

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Texas Forever.

[Front Office Sports @FOS]

Netflix dropped a Friday Night Lights-inspired trailer for 49ers-Rams, narrated by Kyle Chandler.

It was directed by FNL director Peter Berg.

[David Sons @dsons]

Also, I realize I just posted an observation about travel sports so I'm going to duck and cover for a bit.

Happy Monday!

[David Sons @dsons]

This article hits on a lot of what we've witnessed and experienced with kids in travel sports. But I've been thinking about another key element that keeps the machine going.

Travel sports is as much about the PARENTS need as it is about the perceived needs of kids. 🧵(1/11)

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

‘Travel sports,’ a term that has come to encompass all sorts of private teams, leagues, and clubs, used to be for the truly exceptional young athlete. Now, they’re for anyone willing to pay — an expensive, exhausting commitment that has become popular not necessarily because millions of parents want them for their children but because it can feel like there’s no other choice. Rec programs are underfunded and struggle to compete with for-profit leagues for prime field, rink, and court times. And the level of play is diluted, often very early, as travel teams are incentivized to enroll children at young ages.

Around 5 million children in the U.S. now compete on travel teams. Parents find themselves trapped. They know the benefits of sports and want that for their children, yet giving it to them often means buying into a sports ecosystem that’s inherently flawed. As the pay-to-play model increasingly takes hold, so does the idea that kids should start competing at younger and younger ages, risking their sense of self along with their shoulders and ACLs.

“I never want my kids to look back and say I didn’t do everything I could to help them live their dreams,” a mother of three soccer players said. She’s hired professional photographers to take action shots for her 12- and 13-year-olds’ Instagram accounts — the platform has become a recruiting tool — and they’ve both asked her to pay for personal trainers.

“I think the word isn’t ‘specialize’; you are ‘professionalizing’ your kid early. You are exposing them to everything professionals have to deal with — I’m talking injury, time, schedule, everything,” said John Van Benschoten, a former MLB player and travel-baseball coach.

It makes one ask: All this for what? And for whom? Read Caitlin Moscatello’s cover story on how travel leagues have made youth sports more expensive, hypercompetitive, and all-consuming — and the investors who are making a killing: https://t.co/zHcKsPYfeC

[David Sons @dsons]

While also helping families to address the problem and perceived pressure to overextend themselves in extra curricular activities at the expense of healthy formational practices (i.e. personal friendships). (11)