Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nervous because there are only about a thousand of us left, and only 35 or 50 in their zoos. I just hope they don't turn this beautiful thing between me and dingaling into something cheap. While we're at it, if there's a kid, I hope they don't call it Bing-Bing, Cong-Cong or any of those ca-ca double expressions. Why, just once, can't there be a panda named Archie or Bert? Got to go. We're pulling into Washington and a mob of Panda watchers are ready...
...first thing to remember about the Red Sox' youth versus experience contest at second base is that the veteran is barely a year older than the kid. The second thing to remember is that, more than likely, neither will be traded, neither will play second base full time, and both will go north with the Red Sox at least mildly unhappy...
...encourage holdbacks, many have doubts. Says Ray Latoof, head coach at New Orleans' De La Salle High School: "In some cases, it might help, but many parents have delusions of grandeur." Buddy Windle, head coach at Georgia's Murray County High, is even blunter: "A lot of kids are burned out with football by the time they get to high school. Of twelve players in our senior class who were held back, only four are still on the team. And for every holdback, there's another kid who didn't even come out for football because...
...educational and social growth. Nearly 1 million boys play high school football, but only 21,500 of them win scholarships to major colleges and universities. And only 333 college players were drafted by the pros last year. Insists Fordham: "The coaches request it, and the parents buy it. The kids who are good enough to make it on talent, the ones you read about in the sports pages, are never held back. It's the marginal athletes who do it, hoping that something magical will happen. But having a kid repeat a year just feeds the pipe dream...
...also pressed to encourage grade repetition by townspeople who want winning high school teams. Says Andy Urbanic, head coach at Pittsburgh's Penn Hills High School: "The pressure to win at all costs begins to come down on the coaches, who in turn put it on the kids' heads." But some coaches have resisted and won nonetheless. Lloyd Bohanon, coach of Georgia's championship runner-up, Griffin High, says parents have asked him about holding their sons back. "I've never advised anyone to do it," Bohanon says. "A kid sees only the short...