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The Dr. Phil Podcast

It's Only A Game! Three Parental Breakdowns You Need To See To Believe

The Dr. Phil Podcast

Dr. Phil McGraw

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness

4.413.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Youth sports used to be simple: Kids play, parents clap, everybody gets pizza.

The Real Story… today, the sidelines are starting to feel less like Little League and more like an episode of COPS.

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0:00.0

You sports used to be simple. Kids play, parents clap, everybody gets pizza, done deal.

0:05.5

The real story today, the sidelines are starting to feel less like Little League and more like an episode of cops.

0:16.2

If your experience at the ballpark, football field, basketball gym is getting compared to an episode of cops, something's gone way sideways in your life.

0:28.0

That is not a good comparison.

0:29.6

Look at this headline from Nebraska.

0:30.9

Dad sentenced for assaulting referee at youth basketball tournament.

0:36.5

Who's calling the cops?

0:37.7

Somebody back.

0:38.3

Oh, hey.

0:39.1

Call the cops.

0:40.2

We got to call the clothes.

0:41.5

Oh, no.

0:43.2

No, no, no.

0:45.3

It was an eighth grade boys basketball game.

0:48.6

Parents on the sideline and in the stands.

0:50.9

Now, the referee was doing his job.

0:52.7

By the way, let me say, you don't get rich

0:55.4

reffing Little League. I think they either volunteer or get $10 an hour, maybe $15, depends on

1:03.3

where part of the country you're in. So you got to really want to do this to do it. Then a parent

1:10.3

blindsides him with a sucker punch so hard, he was

1:14.4

diagnosed with a brain concussion because a parent came out of the stands and hit him in the

1:21.6

head so hard, his brain rattled around in his skull. The attacker, Joshua Latrell, father of four, who,

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