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Melissa Jacobs

Oakland

Founder and Managing Editor at The Football Girl

Contributor at The Guardian

Subscribe (free or paid) to Good Game, my youth sports newsletter. | The ๐Ÿˆ Girl | Contributor @guardian & @bbc & more. | Pitches: [email protected].

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  • 1 month ago | goodgamekid.substack.com | Melissa Jacobs

    Good Game is a 1-2x/week newsletter speaking the language of youth sports parents. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to support our efforts to educate and empower everyone with a stake in youth sports. Happy almost end of National Tennis Month! (You didnโ€™t know? Congrats, now you do.)When you think of diverse sports, tennis probably isnโ€™t the first that comes to mind.

  • 1 month ago | goodgamekid.substack.com | Melissa Jacobs

    Good Game is a 1-2x/week newsletter speaking the language of youth sports parents. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to support our efforts to educate and empower everyone with a stake in youth sports. One of the first-ever Good Game posts was a little therapy session dedicated to the lessons learned from an intense week of soccer tryouts. After quite the roller coaster for my family and so many other families we knew, I thought a little perspective would be useful.

  • Mar 27, 2025 | theguardian.com | Gabriel Baumgaertner |Melissa Jacobs |Hannah Keyser |David Lengel

    Are the days of small markets teams winning the World Series over? No, because winning the World Series only requires 11 postseason wins, providing you avoid the wildcard. The best thing that any team can do to win the World Series is to get into the playoffs. Getting into the playoffs usually requires that teams spend money to employ the best players, but last year was the first time since 2018 that the team with the best regular-season record won the World Series. GBDefinitely not.

  • Mar 7, 2025 | goodgamekid.substack.com | Melissa Jacobs

    Good Game is a 1-2x/week newsletter speaking the language of youth sports parents. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to support our efforts to educate and empower everyone with a stake in youth sports. โ€œHow the hell am I going to manage?โ€ Itโ€™s a common complaint for parents of one multi-sport kid. Itโ€™s nightmare-inducing for parents of multiple multi-sport kids. Iโ€™m sure many of you feel me, right?

  • Feb 19, 2025 | goodgamekid.substack.com | Melissa Jacobs

    Good Game is a 1-2x/week newsletter speaking the language of youth sports parents. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to support our efforts to educate and empower everyone with a stake in youth sports. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell stood nervously in front of the House Judiaciary Committee and refused to acknowledge a connection between head injuries from playing football and later brain trauma. The year was 2009, and if the seeds werenโ€™t already planted, they were now.

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Melissa Jacobs ๐Ÿ’™
Melissa Jacobs ๐Ÿ’™ @thefootballgirl
9 Jun 25

How I would love to run out of issues to address in the tangled mess that is youth sports. In the meantime, letโ€™s celebrate the small wins and troubleshoot together at Good Game. Would love to have you subscribe if you haven't already! ๐Ÿ‘Š https://t.co/7HXXgsmkwq

Melissa Jacobs ๐Ÿ’™
Melissa Jacobs ๐Ÿ’™ @thefootballgirl
9 Jun 25

I have watched this at least 15 times since last night.

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Hamilton @HamiltonMusical

Inimitable. The original. #Hamilten https://t.co/r5YpwujkUw

Melissa Jacobs ๐Ÿ’™
Melissa Jacobs ๐Ÿ’™ @thefootballgirl
31 May 25

Parent behavior that needs to go (have experienced both in the past three minutes): - A mom telling her son heโ€™s late while heโ€™s trying to time the pitcher. - A dad telling his son he was going to have to walk home if he didnโ€™t make a (pretty difficult) catch.