Melissa Jacobs

1 week 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.

1 month ago | 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.

2 months 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. “How the hell am I going to manage?” It’s a common complaint for parents of one multi-sport kid. It’s nightmare-inducing for parents of multiple multi-sport kids. I’m sure many of you feel me, right?

2 months 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. 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 weren’t already planted, they were now.

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Melissa Jacobs

Congratulations to the 99% of NFL pundits and fans whose preseason predictions have long made their way through the garbage disposal. Unfortunately, the NFL writers for the Guardian have no such luck. Our villainous editors are forcing us to turn back the clock to early September to revisit our season predictions (you can read them in full here). While we’d love to take a victory lap and say we saw all the twists and turns coming, that’s not exactly the case (though we did nail a few).