Robin,

For your segment “Until it hurts” you might as well ask Rush Limbaugh about political moderation. Hyman is just sensationalizing his stories to sell books. Yes there are nuts in the US, and some of them are parents of kids that play sports. Don’t let him paint sports, kids or parents with such a broad brush. Almost all school sports are well regulated, activites that teach kids to improve themselves and accomplish goals.

I’m listening to your interview w/ Mark Hyman. He is spot-on. I have 2 daughters who play league sports in my town, soccer and softball. Sports reign in our NH town and the politics around certain sports are just ridiculous. Neither of my children are “stars” in their sports, which means they were tracked by age 10 onto teams that are the acknowledged second-tier teams. Several of our league soccer coaches — and one indoor soccer association — are widely known to stack their teams with top players, then play them in divisions with some of these secondary teams so that they can come out champions. And if you haven’t specialized in a sport by age 11 or 12, it’s almost impossible to play on the high school junior varsity or varsity teams (at least our public high school allows kids to sign up for freshman teams with no prior experience in that sport).

As a coach for “Girls on the Run,” a program that teaches self-esteem for girls thru running, I can vouch for the benefits of competing for fun and health. In fact, we take competition out of the equation by hosting a road race that doesn’t include course times. It’s time for youth sports associations to recognize that there are other goals besides winning: exercising for health, learning the value of being on a team, belonging to a group.

Hi Robin,

It was great to hear you mention the Boston Marathon, & I know it was just a short mention (except for the great K. Switzer part), but any runner listening WANTS TO KNOW THE TIMES!! What was the TIME of the winning man and woman?

We all calculate, and then I, at least, crack up, thinking how amazing it would be to be able to run that fast.

Thanks for the show, it’s great!

Jane

Robin – Your interview with author Joseph Lieberman was both chilling and eye opening. Thank you for bringing his book to my attention.

Rich ~~~~~~~~~~

I am 30 years old Japanese woman, listening ‘school shooting’ from Japan.
During the time I was grown up, I remember that people used to call our country as ‘safest place in the world’, no gun, not much crime, people felt safe to live.
However it is now even difficult to imagine such ‘myth of safe society’ had existed in the past.
School shooting, attack, how to prevent attacker are now not the issues only in the US but everywhere in the world. We all concern about it. The radio show with shool shooting expert, Joseph Lieberman was very interesting!

Mr. Liebermans exposes us to a more valuable insight about these dreadful outbursts of rage and murder, perpetrated by suicidal individuals, than the general media ever has. A very worthwhile interview. Each incident seems so different when it makes headlines, and it’s more clear to me now that they are not that different. More to the point, they can probably be averted by the people close to the shooter.

It’s clear that Joseph Lieberman has performed an invaluable public service in writing his book. He’s spot on in drawing a comparison between school shooters and suicide bombers. His book should be required reading in every institution of learning across the nation.

Bravo! Joseph Lieberman has done us all a service. We need to make sure that it is taken seriously. Let’s pass on a copy or two to our local school principals. It would be an invaluable tool.