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Effie Dawson
Superstars not needed for family sports fun
- I wasn’t that enthused when I learned that Baltimore’s Crystal Palace soccer team and the New York Red Bulls were playing at Broadneck High School in Arnold.
The good, the bad, the ugly of sports parents
- Anyone who has watched much youth sports knows a psycho parent — a father or mother out of control over a referee's whistle, a coach's substitution or their own kid's mistake.
Curfew would offer no solution for Annapolis crime-fighting
- With a violent crime rate approaching major-city proportions, Annapolis floated the idea of a youth curfew this week. It's an extreme measure proposed at a time of extreme concern in the state capital.
Stressed out? Out of shape? Go for a run
- One week before the official start of summer, the thermometer is flirting with 100. Storms wiped out power to hundreds of thousands of homes in Maryland last week. Gas costs $4 a gallon.
To seniors: Playing it safe is way to enjoy beach week
- For graduating high school seniors, June is synonymous with Beach Week, a teenager’s first rite of passage into adulthood and first escape from the rules of home. It is also the most frightening week ever for mom and dad.
Baltimore needs to expand its proud lacrosse tradition, advance the sport
- After the final shot was taken at Towson University’s Johnny Unitas Stadium on Sunday night, there was little debate that the best women’s college lacrosse team calls Chicago home. The Northwestern Wildcats avenged their only loss of the season with a 10-6 win over Penn to claim their fourth consecutive National Collegiate Athletic Association championship. The final drew a record 6,125 spectators to the Towson stadium. On Monday afternoon, a record 48,970 packed Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., to watch Syracuse defeat Johns Hopkins, 13-10, in the men’s championship.
Dealing with the problem of teenage violence
- How should we care for our children? What is the line between encouraging and demanding? How do we push them toward their dreams without pushing them away — or over the edge?
A lot of guts, little glory, for these girls of the gridiron
- When the women of the Baltimore Burn gathered at Broadneck High School Saturday night, no one announced the starting lineup or turned on the scoreboard clock. One player called home to have someone rush over with her black jersey. Another instructed her daughter to stop horsing around in the stands. The coach declined the referee's offer to start the game early. “Our quarterback's not here yet,” he said, 15 minutes before kickoff.
History vanishes into the night
- The Market House at City Dock initiated me into Annapolis life.
Let’s applaud students who speak up, speak out
- Annapolis High School students learned a little lesson about social awareness. They were taught that we, adults, want children to care about world issues — as long as they don’t rock any boats along the way.
Who’s No. 1? We’ll probably never know
- The girls lacrosse game I want to watch this spring would pit the John Carroll Patriots against the Severna Park Falcons. John Carroll, the first Maryland team to beat Mount Hebron in 10 years, is 13-0 in the tough Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference, outscoring opponents 192-83.
When shopping for a college, buyers should better beware
- I asked a parent of a young recruit what her daughter was looking for in a college and she sighed.
- I asked a parent of a young recruit what her daughter was looking for in a college and she sighed.
Embracing grass roots programs
- In my book, the NCAA men's national basketball championship tops all the other sports tournaments - the World Series, Super Bowl, you name it.