How organized sports should benefit kids with Harvey Araton

Release date: November 10, 2025

Harvey Araton is an award-winning reporter and best-selling author whose journalism and fiction expertly explore both the best and worst of sports. Harvey’s forthcoming work, The Goal of the Game, is his first written for middle readers, and the title is both a declaration and a question. As you will hear in our discussion, Harvey’s career has afforded him unique insights into what youth sports does well, where it is being led astray, and what should be done to ensure positive sports experiences for all kids. More information about Harvey and The Goal of the Game is below.

Biography of Harvey Araton

Harvey Araton is a journalist, author and adjunct college professor based in Montclair, N.J.

He worked for four daily newspapers in the New York City area, including the Staten Island Advance, New York Post, Daily News, and New York Times, where he served as a Sports of the Times columnist for 15 years, 25 overall, and still contributes on a freelance basis.

He has covered all sports and some non-sports, with a specialty in basketball. In 2017, he was the recipient of the Curt Gowdy Award at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA., given annually to print/digital and broadcasting members of the media. He has covered 10 Olympics, many Wimbledon, the U.S. Open tennis tournaments, the French Open, and the Davis Cup in Spain and Zimbabwe. He has also covered many N.B.A. finals, World Series, Super Bowls and men’s and women’s Final Fours in college basketball.

Links

Harvey Araton

https://www.harveyaraton.com/

The Goal of the Game

https://www.koehlerbooks.com/book/the-goal-of-the-game/