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Put A Sock In It

By Chad Nielsen

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

The Father said "go" and the two brothers collided. The tall, slender one cringed as he crumpled. The little one, the tackler, smiled. Thick across the chest and shoulders, he loved to get physical. Of course, the contact took place on a big mattress to soften the falls. The young one, after all, was only 4. "I wanted them to have the technique," says the dad, Anthony Harris, but he meant the drill to be just a background lesson. Harris, a middle school coach in Garland, Texas, didn't raise hi ...

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