A Breath of Fresh Sports: Recent Episodes
Jared Kishbaugh
This podcast featuring Alicia Lavanco and Jared Kishbaugh focuses on current events within the sports world today.
In this episode, Alicia and Jared discuss the current state of youth sports after watching the HBO documentary, Trophy Kids. Parental pressure and actions in youth sports tend to be one of the biggest reasons that kids burnout and stop playing at a young age. In this documentary, there is first hand evidence of parents overstepping while coaching or watching their children play. Alicia and Jared talk about their thoughts on the documentary as a whole, as well as the parents within the documentary.
Will sports return to partial normalcy this fall by allowing fans to attend games, or will we continue to see cardboard cut-outs, virtual fans, and fake crowd noise? In this episode, Alicia and Jared discuss whether they believe fans should be allowed to attend sporting events during this pandemic, even if it is at partial capacity. This episode largely focuses on football and the NFL, as that is the next closest sports season where we could possibly start seeing fans at games again. Safety of players and fans, who really makes the decision to bring fans back, and more will all be discussed in this podcast on a very hot topic in the sports world today.