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...game hardly mattered. Playoff berths weren't at stake. It was just an off-season scrimmage for a bunch of preteen hockey nuts, hoping, perhaps, to add some power to their slapshots. On July 5, from the stands of the Burbank Ice Arena, in Reading, Mass., Thomas Junta watched his 10-year-old son shoot the puck. The kid wasn't faring well. Though contact was forbidden, an elbow nearly smashed his nose. With play getting rougher, Junta, 42, a truck driver, called down to the only adult on the ice, Michael Costin, demanding that he intervene. Costin, whose three...
...Chang (1) may be Siam's most famous twins, but Thailand has lots of pairs vying for attention: Aree and Naree Wongluekiet (2), 13, scratch golfers and identical twins, last week became the second youngest players to compete in the LPGA. Johnny and Luther Htoo (3), mystical preteen rebel leaders, who live in hiding along the Burmese-Thai border, made headlines this winter when their militia turned a Thai hospital into a giant hostage ward. Sonchat and Sonchai Ratiwatana, tennis-doubles champs, got to the finals in this month's Malaysian International Junior tourney. And according to the Bangkok Post...
Even when you think another parent is simpatico, problems are bound to arise. Sagarese recalls a sticky situation several years ago when her preteen daughter planned to ride to soccer practice with a friend and the friend's brother, who'd just got his driver's license. "I had to tell the other mother, 'I just have a thing about teenage drivers, so I'd rather take her myself.'" A hidden bonus: her daughter learned to handle the humiliation of a hands-on mom early on, so now she expects Sagarese to check in with her friends' parents--and behaves...
...without a frown." The camper they have stolen belonged to a couple of pageant producers, so Harry and Wayne must pretend to be gay men with an encyclopedic knowledge of show tunes and sewing as they prepare five avid little girls for the 18th annual Little Miss Fresh Squeeze Preteen Talent Competition. They are also expected to be the most sensitive guys west of Dallas, tending to the emotional needs of a teacher (Illeana Douglas), a bank president (Ally Walker) and a sheriff (William H. Macy, great as always...
...primary importance of fun--of sport pursued for sheer exhilaration--is a credo repeated, and often honored, by coaches, kids and parents. At the same time, though, the pushy parent, red-faced and screaming from the sidelines or bleachers at a hapless preteen fumbling on the field, has become an American archetype and a symbol of the unmeasured costs of kids' sports...