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More Kids Today Voluntarily Retiring from Sports – and Here’s Why

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Dr. Chris Stankovich

Sport retirement used to be an unwelcome transition, but these days more kids are voluntarily walking away from sports for very specific reasons discussed in today’s post.

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Roger Clemens “Comeback” Illustrates Sport Retirement Troubles

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Dr. Chris Stankovich

Apparently former baseball All Star Roger Clemens, now 50 years old, is attempting to make a comeback of sorts as he is scheduled to pitch a minor league game in the independent Atlantic League this Saturday night.   On the …

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The Media Continues to Erroneously Suggest Concussions are Causing Sport Retirement Issues

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Dr. Chris Stankovich

Ever since Junior Seau’s surprising suicide a week ago, the mainstream sports media has continued to rev up the coverage of false correlations suggesting brain damage, concussions, and head trauma are to blame for Seau’s (and others like him) troubles …

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Positive Transitions Book Helps Athletes with Sport Retirement

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Dr. Chris Stankovich

When we first wrote the book Positive Transitions for Student Athletes in the late 1990′s, our primary intention was to help college student athletes prepare for life after sports (since the reality was that most would not be continuing on …

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Better Sport Education Needed to Help with Sport Retirement & Other Important Issues

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Dr. Chris Stankovich

I believe the time is now that we make concerted efforts to better educate and prepare families for their child’s eventual sport retirement.  With sports being as big as they are in this country, its a shame that so many …

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