Speak Up: Father's Day and Sports

June 7, 2007

My Dad taught me how to serve a tennis ball, throw a football with a spiral spin, and sink a putt (on a good day). He coached me in soccer and taught me to play my best and win with humility and lose with honor. I have so many sports related memories with my father and I was wondering if you do too.

Since Father's Day is Sunday (June 17th). I would love to hear if you have any memories or stories about sports and your Dad.

Please share them in the comments section below.

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minnie 6 years

I am the only athletic one out of four girls so it is something cool my dad and i have in common. I ran track for 7 years and i'll never forget the first track cleats my dad bought me. He also helped coach and I would always go play golf with him or at least ride in the cart. To this day he still calls me to see if I'm watching a game on T.V. or if I want to go to a basketball game with him.

purplebaltogirl 6 years

my Dad taught me everything i know about football and baseball, and i am a huge fan of NFL and MLB because of him. it's a great common interest we have that keeps us close.

SU3 6 years

My dad used to pick me up from my swim practices when I was little. He would come after work and watch me because practices usually ran late. Most of the parents would be chatting away or reading a book, but my dad was always there cheering me on even while just training. I used to find it annoying when on the way home he would be enforcing whatever my coach had been telling me what to do that day - but I was very grateful. Still am! Gosh, all those REALLY EARLY swim practices and swim meets and driving me EVERYWHERE... must have driven him crazy! But he ALWAYS took me to them! Aww.. I have to stop before I get all teary eyed!! :P

SU3 6 years

My dad used to pick me up from my swim practices when I was little. He would come after work and watch me because practices usually ran late. Most of the parents would be chatting away or reading a book, but my dad was always there cheering me on even while just training. I used to find it annoying when on the way home he would be enforcing whatever my coach had been telling me what to do that day - but I was very grateful. Still am! Gosh, all those REALLY EARLY swim practices and swim meets and driving me <b>EVERYWHERE</b>... must have driven him crazy! But he ALWAYS took me to them! Aww.. I have to stop before I get all teary eyed!! :P

smart blonde 6 years

My dad is the least athletic person ever born, but he is a champion marksman (paper targets and clay pigeons only; no animals were harmed in the making of my dad's shooting career). My parents' den walls are full of cases of his shooting medals and let me tell you, my mom LOVES to walk the meter readers and cable repairmen past my dad's walls of medals. I didn't learn to shoot until I was 27, and when my dad reeled in my first target at the shooting range, he raised an eyebrow and said, "Damn, I should have started you on this when you were ten!"

scratch5 6 years

I used to paly tennis with my dad every weekend, in the summer, when I was a kid. If I didn't pout on the court, he would take me to Dairy Queen for a treat. Hot fudge sundaes always make me think of tennis!

blackjade 6 years

We've never actually played a game of golf but there's a driving range and sometimes all you really need to do is go out and hit a bucket of balls. We also have lots of impromtu foot races - walking to get ice cream all the sudden I hear one...two...threeGO! and we're off Dads rock

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jenzterama 6 years

i think i had some learning disorder when i was a kid b'cuz i couldn't do basic math, heheh. anyway, my dad came to my rescue and taught me how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide! he was afterall, an enginerd! :P

krampalicious 6 years

I was never, ever an athletic kid, but somehow I was moderately good at softball and my dad was my coach pretty much the whole time I played. He played in college but busted his knee, and so he taught me how to throw properly, how to catch, and how to knock a ball clear to the moon. As much as I loathe sports, I have really fond memories of playing pitch n' catch with my dad.

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