{"id":3016,"date":"2016-08-12T11:30:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T18:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calheat.com\/wp\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2016-08-12T11:11:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T18:11:12","slug":"the-washington-post-asks-why-are-we-so-bad-at-handball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calheat.com\/index.php\/the-washington-post-asks-why-are-we-so-bad-at-handball","title":{"rendered":"The Washington Post asks: Why are we so bad at handball?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Kilgore<\/a>, from The Washington Post<\/a>, asks\u00a0a very painful and real question about the state of Team Handball<\/a> in America.<\/p>\n

At many levels, it makes no sense. America has the right kind of athletes with the right kind of sports backgrounds. True, they have no incentives to play handball, but disregard that for a moment: Really, how long would it take LeBron James to become the best handball player in the world?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To find out follow the link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adam Kilgore, from The Washington Post, asks\u00a0a very painful and real question about the state of Team Handball in America. At many levels, it makes no sense. America has the right kind of athletes with the right kind of sports backgrounds. True, they have no incentives to play handball, but disregard that for a moment: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6250,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[53,51,45,44,41,42,49,39,52],"class_list":["post-3016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-adam-kilgore","tag-athletes","tag-calheat","tag-handball","tag-olympics","tag-rio-2016","tag-sports","tag-team-handball","tag-washington-post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7INHg-ME","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3040,"url":"https:\/\/www.calheat.com\/index.php\/the-handball-fever-spreads-across-america","url_meta":{"origin":3016,"position":0},"title":"The Handball Fever Spreads Across America","author":"Martin Bilello","date":"August 29, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Make sure you come to our first practice of the season to try it out! 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