Since 2011, Professor Douglas E. Abrams has written nearly 250 essays on New York-based www.askcoachwolff.com, one of the nation’s leading youth sports websites. Several of these essays – including his two most recent ones – concern societal issues in sports.

The first recent essay, Trends in Sports: Giving ALL Kids a Chance to Participate and Have Fun, explains how youth sports programs can provide equal opportunity for children with disabilities.  The second essay, Taunting at Sporting Events: How to Empower the Athletes to Put a Stop to It,  presents a way for a team’s players themselves to counter fans’ bigoted slurs and insults during school games.