Take Back the Game How Money and Mania Are Ruining Kids' Sports--and Why It Matters

Linda Flanagan has a book called Taking Back the Game, which is about sort of like high pressure youth sports, which as the parent of a nineyearold boy I've become very cognizant of. It's a weirdly problematic social crisis for America that I think people should care more about.

Linda Flanagan, author of Take Back the Game, How Money and Mania Are Ruining Kids' Sports and Why It Matters.

And it's really out of those experiences that you came to write your book, Take Back the Game.

And the Martian says, huh, should we ban men from ever coaching women again? It might not be a bad idea. Tell me why.

The Martian's second point, which is one that Linda raises explicitly in her book, which when I came to that part of your book, I was like, amen, I'm with you on this as both as Malcolm and as the Martian.

The biggest obstacle to the de-escalation of youth sports is the parents.

There's another really good book by Linda Flanagan called Take Back the Game