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Byline: Fred Bowen My first KidsPost column appeared April 14, 2000. Quarterback Tom Brady, who announced his retirement on Wednesday, was drafted by the New England Patriots on April 16, [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The busiest people in sports these days are the folks keeping score in National Basketball Association (NBA) games. NBA players are putting points on the board in [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen A couple weeks ago I wrote about sports records that could be broken soon. I overlooked one sport: skiing. American skier Mikaela Shiffrin recently tied the mark [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The National Football League (NFL) playoffs begin this weekend, but some fans are wondering if they should watch the games. In a recent Monday Night Football game, [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen While KidsPost was on vacation, Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals passed Gordie Howe (who played from 1946 to 1980) as the second-leading goal scorer in the [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The National Basketball Association (NBA) announced this month that it is renaming some of its awards. For example, the NBA's Most Valuable Player award (MVP) will be [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The college basketball season is underway, and things are changing in the game. One big change is lots of players are moving from school to school. Years [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The Aspen Institute recently issued its annual report on kids' sports called 'State of Play 2022.' The Aspen Institute is an organization that studies lots of important [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Like many sports fans, I have been watching the World Cup soccer matches. With so many upsets and star players, the tournament has been fun and exciting. [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen It's Thanksgiving, a day when many families gather to share a big meal and good times. So that has me thinking of sports families. What's a sports [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The men's World Cup soccer tournament starts in the small Middle East country of Qatar on Sunday. Teams from 32 countries will compete to see who will [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The FIFA World Cup, one of the most-watched sporting event on earth, begins next week in Qatar. To understand some of why it's so popular, let's look [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen After a slow start, I thought I would not write about the Washington Commanders for the rest of the National Football League (NFL) season. I changed my [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The World Series starts Friday night. The Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies face off in a seven-game series to see who will be the champion of Major [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The National Basketball Association (NBA) season tipped off this week. With 30 teams playing an 82-game schedule, it's hard for even the biggest hoops fan to follow [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen College football is getting a bit wacky these days. I don't mean because James Madison University in Virginia has made it into the Top 25 teams during [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The Major League Baseball (MLB) playoffs begin Friday. The top six teams in the American and National leagues will play for the next few weeks to see [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen On Sunday, there was a long article on the front page of The Washington Post on an important issue in sports - the lack of African American [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Aaron Judge, the 6-foot, 7-inch slugger for the New York Yankees, is closing in on Major League Baseball's record for home runs in a single season. Judge [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The National Football League (NFL) season is underway, and there is a lot of talk about quarterbacks. You will hear football experts say things such as 'It's [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen This season Washington's National Football League team has a new name (Commanders), new uniforms (still burgundy and gold) and a new quarterback (Carson Wentz). The question is [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen To travel or not to travel? That is the question lots of kids and families are asking as another youth sports season begins. Travel teams, some of [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The greatest player in the history of women's tennis will probably take her final bow at the United States Open next week. Serena Williams's status as the [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Watch out America, the Lionesses are coming. The Lionesses are England's national women's soccer team. They won the Women's Euro Championship this week in high style. The [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Summertime and the living is easy. No school. No homework. Just long evenings when you can lie back and wonder about the great questions of life. For [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen When a pro team is not very good, the most important question it must ask is: Which players on its roster will still be on the team [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen A big story going into next week's Major League Baseball (MLB) All-Star break is the New York Yankees' chance to finish the regular season winning more than [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen When I started writing my column for KidsPost, I promised myself I would not talk about money in sports. I thought kids were more interested in great [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Summer is here. For most kids, that means no school, going to camps and long evenings playing outside among the fireflies. For some kids, summer also means [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen In American sports history, one of the biggest changes came about because of 37 words. Fifty years ago Thursday, President Richard Nixon signed into law Title IX [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Men's professional golf is often in the news these days. First, the United States Open is being played in Brookline, Mass., from Thursday through Sunday. The U.S. [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen I have been thinking about kids and sports because I read a recent report by the Aspen Institute called 'Sport for All/Play for Life: A Playbook to [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Watching the National Basketball Association (NBA) playoffs makes any fan realize that basketball is a shooter's game. In the playoffs, the four remaining teams are taking more [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The National Basketball Association (NBA) playoffs are getting serious. The competition has been fierce up to now. Superstars such as Giannis Antetokounmpo, Joel Embiid and Ja Morant [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen If you are a lacrosse fan, the next few weeks should be fun. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men and women's tournaments are being played, and [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) season is starting, and one of the big stories may be the Washington Mystics. The Mystics won the WNBA title in [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Organizers of the famous Wimbledon tennis tournament in England announced last week that players from Russia and Belarus will not be allowed to play in the 2022 [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Last week marked the 75th anniversary of the date (April 15, 1947) when Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play in the major leagues since [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen On Monday, the Boston Marathon, the oldest marathon race in the United States, will be run again. Around 30,000 runners from around the world will start in [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen 'We're not going to be down for as long as people think. I can promise you; we're not.' Washington Nationals Manager Dave Martinez said that in August [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Most American sports fans are watching the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball tournaments to see which teams will win the men's and women's championships. The March [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The next week will be a nervous time for American soccer fans. The United States Men's National Team (USMNT) will playthree matches to determine whether it will [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen March Madness, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men's basketball tournament, is underway. The tournament is a huge sporting event. Sixty-eight teams play 67 games at 14 [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Lots of kids like to talk about sports, but Joseph D'Avirro gets to talk about sports like a professional commentator. The 9-year-old from Newington, Conn., is the [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Before the memories of the 2022 Winter Olympics fade away, let's talk about Norway. Norway is a small Scandinavian country, but it's a superpower in the Winter [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The National Basketball Association (NBA) is celebrating its 75th season this year. To mark the occasion, the league named the 75 greatest players in NBA history. The [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Despite the medal-winning victories, the Winter Olympics seem to have had several disappointing performances by some athletes. So it's a good time to talk about losing in [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The Super Bowl is a big deal. Football is full of statistics, so here are a few to prove my point. Twenty-eight of the 30 most-watched television [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen I am not that excited about this year's Winter Olympics, which start Friday in Beijing, China. The Chinese government has announced that because of the coronavirus pandemic, [...]