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Recruiting & College Sports

Keeping perspective while navigating exposure, recruiting, scholarships, NIL, and finding the right fit.

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Social Media

Managing comparison, pressure, and online identity.

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Money & the Youth Sports Arms Race

Making informed decisions about private training, travel, showcases, camps, equipment, and escalating costs.

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Failure Is an Ingredient

Todd Merkow sits down with Andrew Beinbrink — former collegiate baseball player at Arizona State University (College World Series finalist), six-year professional baseball player who reached Triple-A with both the Tampa Bay Rays and Texas Rangers, and CEO and founder of SportsForce (sportsforce.io), a recruiting advisory platform that has guided families through the college athletic recruiting pro

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The Commissioner's Playbook: What Every Sports Parent Gets Wrong About College Athletics

In Episode 6 of Be Valiant, Todd Merkow sits down with Dr. Bob Dranoff — former commissioner of the East Coast Conference in Division II, former athletic director at multiple levels of college athletics including Division I, Division II, Division III, and junior college, and current professor at St. John's University and St. Joseph's College. Bob reached out to Todd on LinkedIn the day Valiant Spo

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Stay True to Who You Are

Todd Merkow sits down with Jody Jackson — longtime Fox Sports Arizona broadcaster, current Diamondbacks reporter, and sports mom of two — for a conversation that moves easily between the press box and the bleachers, between the professional world of sports media and the deeply personal world of raising a pitcher and a quarterback in the competitive youth sports landscape of the Phoenix metro. Jod

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The Dean of Arizona High School Sports: 40 Years of Watching Parents Get It Right — and Wrong

In Episode 7 of Be Valiant, Todd Merkow sits down with Kevin McCabe — a man Todd has known for nearly 30 years, going back to their days together at Fox Sports Arizona. Kevin is the host of the Kevin McCabe Show on Arizona Sports 98.7, a weekly radio program that brings high school athletes and coaches into the studio to be celebrated, not analyzed. He has been covering Arizona prep sports for mor

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Be There for the Journey

Todd Merkow sits down with Jeff Proctor — longtime friend, Valiant Sports Society board member, director, producer, game show creator, and now documentary filmmaker — for a wide-ranging conversation about what it means to be a sports parent when you've lived the athlete's life yourself. Jeff grew up in Carmel, Indiana, the child of divorced parents, playing everything — church baseball, hockey, t

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Do college sports have to mean NCAA athletics?

The college sports conversation is often framed as a single destination. For families, it can be more helpful to begin with fit: the student, the school, the sport, and the experience they want to have. NCAA athletics is one route, but it is not the only way to keep playing, competing, and building community in college. A label should not replace a thoughtful look at what the next chapter can hold. The goal is not to chase a particular name. It is to help your child make a decision they can own.