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Dear Mr. Obama: Help our kids play

Tom Farrey, ESPN

Barack Obama has an opportunity to make an impact on the world of sports that only the likes of Dwight Eisenhower and Theodore Roosevelt have managed, writes ESPN's Tom Farrey.

Story | Conversation | January 17, 2009

Baby, You're The Greatest

Tom Farrey

Want to know what sport your kid should play? Why wait? Everybody into the gene pool!

Story | Conversation | December 17, 2008

BABY YOU'RE THE GREATEST

Tom Farrey

Want to Know What Sport Your Kid Should Play? Why Wait? Everybody into the Gene Pool!

Story | Conversation | October 15, 2008

TREADING WATER

Tom Farrey

U.S. Olympic supremacy was once guaranteed. But as we fixated on Michael Phelps, China showed how close it is to passing us by. Time to rethink the way we nurture our future stars?

Story | Conversation | September 02, 2008

When money's no object

Tom Farrey

A father builds a multimillion-dollar training facility, then hires the best coach he can to teach his 9-year-old daughter to play soccer.

Story | Conversation | June 27, 2005

Baby, you're the greatest

Tom Farrey

Want to know what sport your kid should play? Why wait? Everybody into the gene pool.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | May 19, 2005

Baby, you're the greatest

Tom Farrey

Want to know what sport your kid should play? Why wait? Everybody into the gene pool.

Story | Conversation | March 26, 2005

Baby, You're the Greatest

Tom Farrey

Want to know what sport your kid should play? Why wait? Everybody into the gene pool.

ESPN Insider Story | January 30, 2005

Against All Odds

Tom Farrey

In the rubble that is their homeland, Iraqi soccer players fight the past and present to build a future.

ESPN Insider Story | August 01, 2004

Former athlete concerned about Uday connection

Tom Farrey, ESPN.com

A former Iraqi athlete paid to advise U.S. officials was fired after expressing concerns about the official chosen to head the sports ministry.

Story | Conversation | August 15, 2003

Will Uday's legacy live on?

Tom Farrey, ESPN.com

Uday Hussein's reign of terror is over, but an exiled former Iraqi athlete fears the legacy of Saddam's son may live on.

Story | Conversation | July 25, 2003

Iraqi Olympic Committee to be dismantled

Tom Farrey, ESPN.com

Amid the cries of too little, too late, the chief of the International Olympic Committee has acknowledged that Iraqi athletes were tortured.

Story | Conversation | May 07, 2003

Slow justice is no justice

Tom Farrey, ESPN.com

Soon, the IOC will tell the world what the world already knows about Uday Hussein. It's about time.

Story | Conversation | April 29, 2003

Bombing evokes mixed emotions from former athletes

Tom Farrey, ESPN.com

The Iraqi National Olympic Committee headquarters was bombed and largely destroyed Tuesday by U.S. war planes, prompting mixed reaction from former Iraqi athletes who said they have been tortured by Olympic committee chief Uday Hussein.

Story | Conversation | April 01, 2003

Report: Iraq's Olympic chief turned on top aide

Tom Farrey, ESPN.com

Longtime deputy chairman of the Iraqi National Olympic Committee, Aseel Tabra reportedly has been jailed.

Story | Conversation | March 08, 2003