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Dave Hyde: Everything I needed to know I learned in sports

Congratulations. You've made it through the summer, and the kids are back in school. Or you're back in school. Or, well, you're driving through school zones again.

This leads to a different layer of anxieties, from school safety to everyday homework to even, according to an ongoing study by the U.S. Department of Education, if kids are learning what they should be.

Let me help here. No, not with homework. My help with math consisted of delivering the wrong answer.

Let me help with lesson planning for the next generation. Here's a timely and educational class to fit the modern world:

Sports.

This isn't a class teaching cover-two defense in football or how to pull a double switch in baseball. It could be called, "Everything I Needed To Know I Learned in Sports." I've tried this before and the Department of Education hasn't called for some reason. But here's the ever-evolving lesson plan:

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