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At Linwood Park, where Patty sometimes organized athletics for the kids, Connie sat by herself on the grass, unbored, her hands fashioning a clover-flower ring for nobody, and let the minutes stream past her until Joey took his turn at bat or moved the soccer ball down the field and quickened her interest momentarily.
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The athletic director generally expresses the message that athletics as a privilege for kids who have their heads together.
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Other kids played in Central Park, participated in athletics, basked and what have you in the great outdoors.
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In youth sports, that social contract would be re-instituting sports, at least on an intramural level, at schools, from elementary on up, so kids have a more equal shot at being exposed to athletics, and a more equal shot at succeeding.
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In my south suburban Chicago community, baseball-playing kids will represent the White Sox, Cubs, Phillies, Athletics, Rays, or whatever other major league names are available.
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In the meantime, there's his nutritional company to run, and young athletes to mentor, not to mention another year of Street Athletics, the project he runs with his former coach Linford Christie to give young city kids the chance to try sprinting.
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