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[sambista]

By BILL PENNINGTON
Published: February 22, 2005

A competitive swimmer since she was 7, Alex Glashow of Barrington, R.I., logged 8,000 yards a day in the pool, until her arms ached. She learned to dislocate one shoulder intentionally to ease the pain in the water, but after shoulder surgery and a year of physical therapy, Glashow quit competitive swimming forever when she was 15.

Jeret Adair, a top young pitching prospect from Atlanta who started 64 games in one summer for his traveling baseball team, last year had Tommy John surgery, an elbow reconstruction once reserved for aging major leaguers.

Ana Sani of Scarsdale, N.Y., a 13-year-old budding soccer star, practiced daily until she tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her knee.

Around the country, doctors in pediatric sports medicine say it is as if they have happened upon a new childhood disease, and the cause is the overaggressive culture of organized youth sports.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/22/sports/othersports/22overuse.html?hp&ex=1109134800&en=1b1e19bce373a4d7&ei=5094&partner=homepage

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[Ballwinner]

This issue is one where Shea Ralph and Jackie Stiles should literally be poster-women.

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There are good ships, and there are wood ships, the ships that sail the sea. But the most important ships for a viable WNBA future are ownerships, and that will always be.

[sambista]

i was thinking the same thing.

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no justice, no peace.