Whenever you engage with a sport and see what’s available in equipment, you always see the nicest options available to you in-stores and online. Still, it is just a consumerist trap where buyers feel compelled to buy premium equipment in order to achieve a higher status level or a false promise of better performance with a particular piece of equipment. This reality is grim for sports that...
Whenever a new system or idea is introduced to the space within that sport, it usually comes across many who are skeptical due to everyone sticking to what has worked for years. Commonly, when new ideas are introduced, those pioneers fall into more scrutiny from the rest of the community due to the added pressure of not meeting what is expected of a team or player to do as a standard procedure...
A lot coaches when they start or wonder what they should implement within in their program, they always wonder what is the most important value or thought process that their players want to adopt, and so many coaches over time have developed these systems where they want their players to start adopting to get closer to what they see as the most optimal version of play that their level can achieve...
J.J. McCarthy’s journey to the NFL is nothing short of remarkable. With talent and determination, he carved his path towards the NFL, with a standout performance within his first game, cementing history as the first player to have three touchdowns within the 4th quarter in their first game. Born on January 20, 2003, in Evanston, Illinois, J.J. McCarthy grew up in La Grange Park. At an early...
The Little League Baseball World Series just wrapped up on August 24, 2025, and congratulations to Tung-Yuan Little League from Chinese Taipei for their successful run, giving Chinese Taipei their first championship since 1996. This was Tung-Yuan’s first win within the Little League World Series since 1972, with a more recent appearance back in 2015. Their opponents, Summerlin South Little...
Hey everyone! Here at Sports Excitement, we have been keeping an eye on the Little League World Series spanning from August 13, 2025, to August 25, 2025. The series included 10 U.S. and 10 international teams that participated in a double-elimination format. These teams put the “sport” in “Williamsport” as they compete with all the grit and passion they have to try and...
Hello Everyone! Welcome to our first ever blog, and it felt fitting to establish a value that we hold dearly here in Sports Excitement and would be beneficial for you and everyone in youth sports. Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn, inducted in 2007 and with a .338 career batting average over 20 MLB seasons, once said: “You can’t live on what you did yesterday. Discipline means showing up every day ready...