At various youth baseball and softball complexes nationwide, there are signs directed at spectators and parents urging them to manage their expectations — and emotions — during the games. After all, these are kids, not professional players, and the overall goal is to have fun.
Kids’ sports are exciting, sometimes exasperating, and, of course, winning is more fun than losing. Sometimes, the heat of competition leads to confrontation and bad behavior.
“As an organization we believe very strongly in creating a welcome and safe environment for everybody that participates in our programs,” said Chris Adams, president of the Evanston Baseball & Softball Association (EBSA). “In travel baseball and travel softball things can get heated. You get into tournaments. You really want to do well and play well. Our travel teams are in a league, and of course you want to win your League championship. You want to beat your archrivals.”
The EBSA Orange Cats graphic from the travel baseball website. Credit: Evanston Baseball & Softball Association
The 2025 EBSA travel program has 30 baseball and softball teams in total, with 230 kids participating. To keep things amicable, Adams cites the “24-hour rule,” a stipulation in a required parent/guardian agreement part of the EBSA registration process.
“If you have a gripe, you have to wait a day or two so you can have a chance to cool down, and you can have a civil and productive conversation,” Adams said of fans who take issue with calls or plays. “No interfering with what’s going on in the dugout. No trying to coach your kid from the stands. Basically, respect the organization, respect the setup.”
Mitigating interference by spectators not only takes pressure off the young coaches and umpires, but it also fosters a safer, more civil environment for the players, Adams said.
ETHS alumni coaches
An ace in the hole for EBSA’s travel program is that most of the young adult coaches are former Evanston Township High School players, who come from a top-quality program that emphasizes professionalism, respect and a deep understanding of the game.
Members of the 2025 13U EBSA Orange Cats. Credit: Jessica Gilbert
Joe Knudsen manages the EBSA summer travel program and is an assistant varsity baseball coach at ETHS.
“I’ve been blessed, because so many of our high schoolers want to come back [and coach] and that’s pretty special,” Knudsen said. “I grew up in Niles, and they don’t have that. Also, coming from ETHS, where the baseball program does really well both academically and behaviorally, it’s ingrained in these kids. So, from a young age, they understand it’s about hustling and teamwork and making the people around you better.”
Adams emphasized that the synergy between EBSA’s travel and house league helps drive the quality of the programs across the board. All travel players are required to play in the house leagues, which compete in the spring and fall.
“Our travel players are ambassadors, and we need them playing house because they set the example,” Adams explained. “It demonstrates to the non-travel kids that this is how you can play if you practice. This helps inspire kids to want to participate at a higher level.”
The experience the travel coaches have as young players, starting as early as 5 years old, also helps instill in them an ability to manage excitable young players and the overall level of intensity down to a productive level, Adams added.
Inevitably, there will be conflicts and, sometimes, bad behavior by opponent spectators or even coaches. When that happens, Adams said, the travel coaches are trained to go directly to the umpires to resolve any controversy.
Parent coaches
As for the house league, most of the coaches are Evanston parents. Some have kids on the teams, and many are former players themselves, Adams explained. To coach in the house league, parents have to participate in workshops led by an outside organization about focusing on positivity, communication and team-building skills.
Finally, Adams said, having coaches, be they parents or college students, who truly understand the game is a huge benefit for EBSA players.
“You can frequently look at batters on deck or the batter at the plate and see how he’s swinging and predict where he or she’s going to go with the ball,” he said. “So, you’re positioning your defense to be in the right spot. That’s just such an advantage when you have savvy coaches who can see the whole game as it’s going on and see what’s about to happen next.”
But even more importantly, Adams said, is to have coaches who know how to manage a game, who know how to think strategically and share their thoughts with the kids so that they’re learning more than just how to catch the ball and make a good throw.
“The players are learning how to look at situations and how can they exploit what the defense is doing, or how can they exploit what the offense is trying to do to our advantage,” he said. “That’s a huge part of being competitive and knowing all aspects of the game.”
As a 15-year-old high school student, DeAnna Duran thought the little blue pills that quickly ensnarled her into addiction’s unrelenting grip were “percs” — the street name for the prescription opioid Percocet.
“At first, I didn’t want to do it, and I think it got to the point where (my friends) were doing it, so why can’t I?” DeAnna, who is now 21, recounted in a recent interview. “After a while, I was doing it more and more and more.”
She tried to convince herself that she wasn’t an addict. But she couldn’t stop, and definitely didn’t want to experience the pain of opioid withdrawal. She started skipping school, failing classes and getting in trouble with teachers. Eventually, she dropped out of high school altogether.
But the pills that DeAnna believed to be “percs” were counterfeits. She had unknowingly become addicted to fentanyl — a powerful synthetic opioid that accounts for more than half of all overdose deaths in the United States. In Santa Clara County, 807 people died from a fentanyl overdose between Jan. 1, 2018, and Oct. 25, 2025, which makes up nearly 75% of all opioid overdose deaths in that same time period. The average age of those who died is 38.
“I didn’t know what fentanyl was, period,” she said, explaining that the revelation came after she looked up the fake pills online. “I had no idea what I was taking.”
DeAnna tried to escape from fentanyl’s grasp several times, with each attempt ending in relapse. Then last December, as withdrawal symptoms started to set in once again, her mother, Jennifer Duran, showed her a video of Dr. Lee Trope talking about Santa Clara Valley Medical Center’s youth inpatient opioid treatment program.
DeAnna Duran, 21 of San Jose, — pictured at right with her mother, Jennifer Duran — enrolled in Santa Clara County’s opioid addiction treatment program for youth under the age of 21 last year and has been maintaining her sobriety. Photographed at the Reentry Resource Center in San Jose, Calif., on Oct. 27, 2025. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)
In 2021, the Santa Clara County-run hospital launched a first-in-the-nation program that caters to teens and young adults under the age of 21 who are struggling with opioid addiction. Valley Med already had been treating patients who came into the emergency department for substance use disorders, often starting them on medications like Suboxone that counteract the effects of opioids.
But to start a patient on the prescription drug — a combination of buprenorphine and naloxone that works by binding to opioid receptors and reducing cravings — the individual must be in withdrawal. Trope, a pediatric hospitalist and director of the youth inpatient program, said the ER setting wasn’t always the best option for young patients who might need a little extra “TLC.”
Instead, the program admits patients under 21 into Valley Med’s pediatric wing, where Trope said they provide medical support — including medications that can help with sleep and anxiety. The program has seen 80 patients and 115 admissions since it launched nearly five years ago.
“Our goal with our program is we want to have a menu of options that different people with different life situations … could choose different ways of starting their treatment,” Trope said. “We found that most adolescents and young adults in our community have wanted a lot of support, knowing they’re in the hospital, knowing they’re being monitored, knowing they have medications available for that hardest beginning part of getting off of the fentanyl.”
Dr. Lee Trope, director of the inpatient youth opioid treatment program for Santa Clara Valley Healthcare, inside Santa Clara Valley Medical Center on Oct. 29, 2025. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)
Dr. Lee Trope, director of inpatient youth opioid treatment program for Santa Clara Valley Healthcare, left, and Dr. Annie Chang, medical site director for Valley Homeless Healthcare Program with Santa Clara Valley Healthcare, talk during an interview at the Reentry Resource Center in San Jose, Calif., on Oct. 27, 2025. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)
Since enrolling in Santa Clara County’s opioid addiction treatment program for youth under the age of 21 last year, DeAnna Duran has been on Sublocade—an injectable medication for opioid use disorder—and has maintained her sobriety. Pictured is a box of Sublocade stored in a pharmacy at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center on Oct. 29, 2025. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)
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Dr. Lee Trope, director of the inpatient youth opioid treatment program for Santa Clara Valley Healthcare, inside Santa Clara Valley Medical Center on Oct. 29, 2025. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)
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DeAnna was just days shy of her 21st birthday — the cutoff age for the program due to hospital licensing restrictions — when her mother showed her the video. She knew it was time to get help.
“I wanted a better life for myself,” she said of why she made the decision. “I wanted to stop hurting. I wanted to stop hurting my family.”
DeAnna was admitted to Valley Med’s pediatric floor, where doctors asked her how long it had been since she last used — “10 or 11 hours,” she said. They waited for her to go into mild withdrawal before administering Suboxone. She described the symptoms that came with withdrawal as “hell.” Doctors would eventually prescribe her other medications to make her more comfortable. With her mother by her bedside, DeAnna slept for two days.
Jennifer took time off work to be with her daughter while she detoxed. The mother-of-four also didn’t know about fentanyl until well after her child was already addicted. In a recent interview, Jennifer recalled often waking up five or six times a night to check on DeAnna, frightened she was going to walk into her daughter’s room and find her dead.
“I told her it’s only a matter of time — it’s not if you OD, it’s when,” Jennifer said through tears. “I don’t want my daughter to die. I won’t make it without her. For a parent to lose a child, I don’t think it’s something you ever come back from.”
Jennifer Duran recounts difficult times when her daughter, DeAnna, was addicted to fentanyl, during an interview on Oct. 27, 2025, in San Jose, Calif. DeAnna enrolled in Santa Clara County’s opioid addiction treatment program for youth under the age of 21 last year and has been maintaining her sobriety. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)
It’s been almost a year now since DeAnna walked through Valley Med’s doors. She has almost a year of sobriety under her belt — the longest stretch of time since she first started using at age 15. Each month, she visits the county’s Re-entry Resource Center in downtown San Jose to receive a monthly shot of buprenorphine called Sublocade that reduces her drug cravings. The program also offers other services like counseling.
DeAnna’s physician, Dr. Annie Chang, said that medications like Sublocade provide patients with “stability” as they navigate sobriety. She points out the “great discrepancy” when it comes to the treatment of substance use disorder for adolescents compared to adults — many of the FDA-approved medications have only been studied in adults. That’s why Santa Clara County’s pioneering program is considered a model for other hospitals across the nation.
From a public health perspective, Chang said it’s critical that young people have the same access to treatment as adults do for opioid addiction before they get caught up in the system.
“When we see the trajectory of substance use and these behaviors that the substance use drives, and then they’re involved in the criminal justice system. Then they’re incarcerated, usually in local jails, because their first offenses were minor, and it gets more severe and deeper if that substance use disorder isn’t treated,” Chang said.
As a mother, Jennifer is proud of what her daughter has accomplished. She said they’re still earning trust back with everyone in the family, but she’s proud of DeAnna’s change.
“I want her to go out in life and become something that makes her happy and gives her joy,” she said. “This drug took everything away from her. … If it wasn’t for the support that this program gave her, I wouldn’t have my daughter.”
For DeAnna, that support has made all the difference in her ability to get sober and stay sober. She has spent the last year “trying to heal” to ensure she doesn’t “slip up” in the future. She hopes to go back to school and complete her GED, as well.
“I think overall I’m just proud of myself from where I started to where I am now,” she said. “From six years ago to now, that’s just a big difference of where I came from, especially from having an addiction.”
Individuals under the age of 21 can contact Valley Med’s youth opioid inpatient program by calling (408) 885-5255 and asking for the pediatric hospitalist on call.
Monmouth Park unveils its new 16,000 sq. ft. Caesars Sportsbook
Venue features wall-to-wall video, VIP area, kiosks and Shake Shack
Leaders highlight Monmouth Park’s role in launching legal NJ sports betting
Project strengthens partnerships and long-term development at the racetrack
Monmouth Park marked the next step in its evolution last month, as the long-anticipated Caesars Sportsbook celebrated its grand opening at the Oceanport racetrack. The ribbon cutting drew local dignitaries, leaders from Monmouth Park and Caesars Entertainment, and others.
Of course, Monmouth Park has been on the leading edge of legal sports betting here in New Jersey – serving as key advocates during the legal battle that ended with the landmark 2018 decision greenlighting legal wagers in the state. In anticipation of that ruling, Monmouth Park had made an early gamble on a sports betting with the then William Hill Sportsbook.
On June 14 that year, Gov. Phil Murphy placed the first legal bet in New Jersey. That initial sportsbook was a smaller facility attached to the grandstand. It rebranded to Caesars after the gaming giant purchased William Hill in 2022. The new project broke ground in May 2024.
Gov. Phil Murphy places the state’s first sports bets at Monmouth Park in 2018. – EDWIN J. TORRES/NJ GOVERNOR’S OFFICE
Betting big
The standalone Caesars Sportsbook features 16,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor sports viewing space, including sweeping views of the historic racetrack; wall-to-wall video; more than 25 best-in-class self-service betting kiosks; an expansive center bar; and an exclusive VIP section. The sportsbook, notably, also features a Shake Shack location with its full signature menu.
“We are so proud to partner with Caesars and delighted to offer fans this new state-of-the-art sportsbook,” said Dennis Drazin, chairman and CEO of Darby Development LLC, operators of Monmouth Park Racetrack. “This has been a long time in the making, and it’s satisfying to finally see it come to fruition as we continue the expansion of the Monmouth Park facility as a top entertainment and gaming destination in the state.”
“It’s fitting to open this cutting-edge venue at Monmouth Park, where legal sports betting in New Jersey first launched, and add to its rich history,” said Dan Shapiro, senior vice president and chief development officer at Caesars Digital. “With this investment, we are proud to continue to support horse racing in the Garden State. We expect that the new integrated sports wagering experience will draw new fans from the Jersey Shore and beyond.”
‘A long-awaited project’
During the ribbon-cutting event, Drazin spoke about the partnership between Monmouth Park and Caesars.
“Dan [Shapiro] is not only with Caesars, but he used to be here at Monmouth Park many years ago,” said Drazin. “And Dan has been here with sports betting from the beginning, to work with us in bringing sports betting to New Jersey. This has been a long battle since 2013 and, finally, the Supreme Court gave us sports betting in 2018.
“But Caesars always had the vision of having this building – that we’re standing in now – being the flagship for their sports betting models throughout the country. And I’m proud to be part of the Caesars team in bringing the sportsbook to you.”
Shapiro opened his remarks by joking that he would be brief — noting that Shake Shack was giving out free burgers, fries and chicken sandwiches to the mark the grand opening.
“This is a really exciting day,” said Shapiro. “First of all, this is a long-awaited project. When we first started working with Dennis and his team, we always knew we wanted to do something bigger than we had in the grandstand. And that day really is today – opening this beautiful venue.”
The new Caesars Sportsbook at Monmouth Park features 16,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor sports viewing space, including sweeping views of the historic racetrack; wall-to-wall video; more than 25 best-in-class self-service betting kiosks; an expansive center bar; an exclusive VIP section; and a Shake Shack location. – PROVIDED BY CAESARS/PHOTO BY BILL DENVER/EQUI-PHOTO
Shapiro noted how he had been reminiscing the day before about when the first legal bet was placed – not far from where the Nov. 20 ribbon cutting was taking place.
“We had about 1,000 people there – and you just feel the energy and enthusiasm of that day, and the pent-up demand for sports betting,” he said. “It was just great to see. This is really the evolution of that experience in this beautiful venue with these TVs and video, and this beautiful VIP area and with a Shake Shack restaurant, is just another really cool amenity to add to this.
“We really think we’ve taken sports betting here to a whole new level and really modernized the experience by integrating a great bar, Shake Shack restaurant, VIP area.”
About that Shake Shack…
He reflected on the groundbreaking last year, when several people went up to Shapiro to say how cool it was that Shake Shack was going in there – as if sports betting was old news.
“But now that we bring the two together – I think it’s really a cool thing. I want to thank our great staff here, both in the sportsbook and the Shake Shack restaurant, as well as all the folks from Darby Development that we’ve been working with all this time. Union Square Events – that team is behind Shake Shack here.”
The Caesars Sportsbook at Monmouth Park features a Shake Shack location (seen in back) with its full signature menu. – MATTHEW FAZELPOOR/NJBIZ
And Shapiro gave a special thanks to Drazin for being a partner in this project, as well as the horsemen. “It’s not without Dennis and the horsemen’s support – that it’s possible sports betting wouldn’t even be here today, legally, in New Jersey,” said Shapiro. “Through that battle that Dennis mentioned, starting in 2013, and here we are today – seven-and-a-half years removed, and just opening this beautiful venue really speaks to the success and the vision that we had over 10 years ago.”
‘Without sports betting – we’d be closed’
Drazin began his remarks by thanking all of the key stakeholders and leaders for their efforts on this project, including elected officials, such as Oceanport Mayor Thomas Tvrdik and others.
“Oceanport has been a good partner of Monmouth Park. We appreciate their support,” said Drazin. “But I would be remiss if I didn’t thank not only the Caesars team and Dan Shapiro, but certainly the Monmouth Park team has worked so hard to keep Monmouth Park open. And I would tell you, without sports betting – we’d be closed.
“We would have not survived since 2012.”
At the Nov. 20 ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Caesars Sportsbook are (from left): Dan Shapiro, chief development officer, Caesars Digital; Dennis Drazin, chairman and CEO, Darby Development LLC, (the operator of Monmouth Park); and Oceanport Mayor Thomas Tvrdik. – MATTHEW FAZELPOOR/NJBIZ
Drazin continued, “Gov. Phil Murphy and his wife, Tammy Murphy, have been very supportive – and we believe that our new Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill will continue the support that all of the governors have given us over the years, as well as our Legislature. And, hopefully, we’re on to bigger and better things.
“We intend to make a very serious effort again for expansion of casino gaming, which will be the perfect partner for Monmouth Park, assuming the Legislature passes it, puts it on the ballot next November, and the voters move it forward.”
That last point comes at a key time in the gaming sector here in New Jersey and Atlantic City – following the recent and widely anticipated issuance of three gaming licenses in New York City, with those new casinos set to enter the market in the coming years.
What’s to come
“We’re looking forward to a long, happy future here at Monmouth Park,” said Drazin. “We signed a new, 87-year lease – and we’re doing significant development here at the track, combined with some housing. But mainly youth sports and a hotel, and other things that we’re going to partner with the town in trying to support youth sports in the area.
“The town has some fields across the street at Gatta Park – and we’re going to work together to try to make this a destination, not only for sports, sports betting, gaming, hopefully slots, and, of course, our racing product is something we’re very proud of and continue to focus on that.”
We’re looking forward to a long, happy future here at Monmouth Park. – Dennis Drazin, chairman and CEO, Darby Development LLC
Drazin noted that the outdoor deck, which was not open during that chilly November evening event, will be a great spot to watch races during this upcoming season.
“We’re very proud of the job that everyone did,” said Drazin. “You’re all part of the team – and without our Monmouth Park family and our Caesars family, we couldn’t have accomplished this.”
MT ZION, Ill. (WAND) – During the Winter Warmup youth basketball tournament hosted by Mt. Zion High School, members of the community hosted a free throw competition for kids raising money for the “Live. Like. Jack.” scholarship fund.
Boys and girls split into groups from 2nd through 6th grade each were given the chance to compete to see how many free throw attempts they could make. All proceeds for entry fees will go toward the program’s initiative to help local graduates by making college more affordable.
“We’ve got a chance at a thousand kids coming through and giving them a free throw contest,” said Dicky Trump, President of the Mt. Zion youth basketball board. “We hope to have some good funds from that to give back to them and scholarships.”
The program is one of many ways the Mt. Zion community has paid tribute to Jack’s love of sports. Brinkoetter was just 10-years-old when he was tragically killed in a sledding crash in January 2025. In his memory, an outdoor basketball court with multiple new hoops were installed near the grade school. The Braves high school practice & youth football field was also named after Jack.
The Crookston School Board will hold its last regularly scheduled meeting of 2025 on Monday evening at 5:00 p.m. at the Crookston High School Choir/Orchestra room.
The consent agenda includes the approval of the meeting minutes from November 24, bills and disbursements in the amount of $434,709.59, and accept a donation from the Crookston Youth Basketball Association in the amount of $2,000 for the boys basketball program.
There will be administrative reports and the regular agenda includes the following –
Approval of the second readings of policy revisions as recommended by the Minnesota School Board Association and the policy committee, approval and establishing of a combined polling place, the 2024-25 final audit, approve the Comprehensive achievement and civic readiness report, the approval of an agreement with ICS to do a building analysis for Washington School, and the approve the master agreement with the Crookston School District teachers union for 2025-26, 2026-27 school years.
The next meeting date is scheduled for Monday, January 26 at 5:00 p.m. at the Crookston High School choir/orchestra room.
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Head coach resigned after one season with the Wolverines
The Bayfield High School football team will have a new head coach next season after Jason Wenzlau resigned from his position.
Wolverines Athletic Director Andy Duffy confirmed that Wenzlau resigned in early December, citing Wenzlau taking a new job as a reason for the resignation. Wenzlau was also supposed to teach for Bayfield, but never did, according to Duffy.
Wenzlau coached the team for one season after taking over for Glenn Wallace, who coached the Wolverines for three seasons and had the program on an upward trajectory. Wenzlau couldn’t continue that upward trajectory, and the Wolverines went 3-6 overall, missing the postseason. Bayfield lost its last six games, including an 0-5 record in the 2A Intermountain League.
The head coaching job was posted on Monday on the Bayfield School District website. The position pays $6,000 per season. Preference will be given to applicants who also apply for or are currently a certified teacher at Bayfield High School, according to the job posting.
“We’re looking for somebody who is really dedicated to the football team and the football program,” Duffy said. “We want someone who has the time and energy to build a program. That takes all year long with a good weights program and summer program. We want someone who really has the dedication to do that.”
