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Sports concept — Every kid plays

By Gregg WendorfAdvance News JournalI was looking at a local parks and rec program, and this thought came to me — how lucky are American kids to have the sports programs we have available to them?Lucky beyond measure. We look at poor countries, and we see the poorly clothed kids playing in a broken-glass filled street, using a broken stick as a bat, and rolled-up cloth for a ball, and the U.S. becomes a pretty happy-we-live-here place to be. At least when it comes to youth programs that don’t involve drugs and weapons.The cities around the Valley, most of them ...

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