Biscaldi's Youth
Sports Forum

It has finally happened: an athlete took the New Jersey Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJISAA) to court in an attempt to overturn the result of a state tennis match and allow it to be replayed due to “alleged improper conduct by an opposing coach and poor officiating in a state semifinal match” the player had lost.  For a few months now I have written blogs about youth/High School sports ending up in court for various reasons with most of them dealing with parents runn

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog about a “violent” weekend in youth and high school sports.  The violence occurred in a high school soccer and a high school football game where the players got into it on the field. The disturbance then spilled out onto the streets around the field with the parents and a final incident where parents fought in the stands of a pee wee football game.  The next week there was a high school football game that was stopped early due to a fight between

I have been writing this blog for over two years now and the ratio of bad to good stories about youth sports stories is not good. Like they say in the newspaper business, “if it bleeds it leads” and the same seems to go for the blog writing business.  Week after week I look for positive youth sports stories only to find stories about parents abusing coaches and game officials, children behaving badly during and following games, the costs of travel/elite/select teams exploding

I sat down this week to write about an incident I read on NJ.com that occurred between St. Peter’s and St. Benedict’s High Schools where a St. Benedict’s player attacked a photographer who was taking pictures of a scuffle that was taking place between both teams following the game.  However, on October 7 th  there was another article by NJ.com entitled “It was the most violent day ever on NJ sports fields.  Are we doing anything about it?”  This story talks about three sepa