When we contacted Rob Young to interview him about his award-winning coverage of a softball team, he had just talked to the coach and agreed to attend a cookout celebrating the team's championship.
Parents occasionally make news for unruly behavior during their offspring's games.
They were very friendly and personable. They had a good team, one that was accustomed to winning. They expected a championship and weren't going to accept anything less, and that goes for the kids, too. For a writer with a notebook and eyes and ears, the elements of a sports event can be the same whether at a dusty diamond in Wilson, N.C., or in Yankee Stadium. He or she can be covering the event from a seat in grandstands whose planks are working loose and whose nails are coming up to threaten rips in trousers.