Respect must be earned, not commanded or demanded...
The sports news of late has been peppered with stories of football players fighting on the field, even coaches jawing at each other and looking as though Frazier-Ali were coming to a football stadium near you. As a long-time sports fan, football fanatic and youth football coach, it concerns me to see the number of incidents are continuing to grow and not nearly enough is being done to curtail the problem. This past month we have seen college football coaches barking at each other, NFL coaches acting like drunken frat guys seeing who's is bigger, and lots of college and high school players getting into all out scrums on the field. It sickens me to see what this behavior is showing our young people today. Where is this coming from and what can be done about it? Admittedly, the one of the main causes of this problem has been a long time coming. To those of us who have seen a generation or so of young kids growing up in sports, the problem is quite simply poor or non-existent p...