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Youth sports and related violence It was July 5, 2001 at Burbank Ice Arena in Reading, MA where hockey practice was taking place. Costin, a father of 3 boys who were playing was on the ice supervising. Junta’s son was also in the rink. When Junta saw his son get elbowed and checked he yelled at Costin to get some control on the checking. Costin yelled up to him that is what hockey is all about. Later as the boys were getting out of the locker room and changed Junta came after Costin. He punched Costin in the face and banged his head against the ground as Costin’s three sons watched. Junta stopped only when he was pulled off by a bystander. Junta was arrested and charged with manslaughter two days later when Costin. When parents and coaches spend all there time focused on the scoreboard, they are bound to loose sight of their purpose: to teach, and to guide youngsters in skill development in their sports, to provide encouragement, to build self esteem and perhaps the most important thing of all to have fun. Recently parents and coaches have been concentrating too much on the scoreboard and have become increasingly violent at there children’s sporting events. When parents take there children’s sport to seriously it set’s a bad example and causes serious effects on the child. What makes a youth sporting event’s so out of control?
Approximate Word count = 944
Approximate Pages = 3.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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