

Beautiful bodies, beautifully shot on Can-Am's huge new locker room and shower set. The result is one of the most visually stunning Can-Am Productions yet. Whether to give games back to the kids or give the kids to the Dons, it's mostly a matter of principal, i.e., capital.Ever since Can-Am introduced you to Muscle God Billy Herrington in Worship, the e-mails have been pouring in to the Boss with one resounding question: When are you going to put Billy up against Mark Wolff? Well your prayers have been answered! We finally managed to coordinate Billy and Mark's busy appearance schedules and get them in L.A. What the author recommends - the repopularized game of soccer, greater medical supervision including certified trainers, and the parents' responsibility to evaluate their son's abilities as well as the coach's - is unarguably sound advice.

Other justly criticized aspects of the system include the dehumanizing ""ordeal"" of college recruiting and the peer-group pressure exerted on athletes to make them conform. Ralbovsky censures coaches who let their players die of heat stroke and dehydration (16-20 young footballers annually) and those who permit their teen-age pitchers to throw a curve ball and thus risk permanent elbow aches who incite riots at basketball games and those whose emphasis on physical violence may harm the youngster psychologically. 170) and onto the playing fields where the ""lords"" often wield ""dictatorial power."" This work - a cogent indictment of what's wrong with the various levels of non-professional sports activities - is addressed not only to society's coaching mentors, but also to the parents of the nine million boys, aged 9-19, who engage in high school athletics, Little League baseball, Pop Warner football, Biddy League basketball and the like. Coaches in America have become too fanatical about winning games."" Such views are carried over from the author's recent Destiny's Darlings (KR, p. Coaches abuse their power and, subsequently, their young players.
