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Three cheers for the fanatical sports parent -- keep at it!

Amy Gage
January 27, 2003

Gordon Marino
Marino
A philosophy professor and an assistant football coach at St. Olaf College, Gordon Marino is no apologist for pushing sports on his sons. "There are good, pragmatic reasons for taking Junior's baseball as seriously as his biology class," Marino wrote recently in an essay for the New York Times Sunday Magazine.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.