The Idle American

In a perfect world, coaches, parents and participants would rightly refer to sports aspirants as “student athletes.” Today, however, this often is not the case. For many—in both high school and college—reference to “student athletes” is an oxymoron, as far apart as the east is from the west. The best coaches—at all levels—first are teachers in the noblest sense, imparting life lessons first and…