I am watching Game Six of the NBA Finals between the Dallas Mavericks and the Miami Heat. Dallas had the 3-2 game edge on the Heat and can gain the World Championship with a win tonight. All of a sudden I see players on both teams pushing and shoving each other at a timeout. I [...]
One thing that I have noticed about getting older is I have fewer and fewer conversations with myself about the things I would like to do œsomeday. Maybe it is that I can see a limit to the time available. What I would encourage you to do is to start taking action on your œsomeday [...]
I have labored over a way to get in touch with you ever since the stuff hit the fan. This is an effort to do just that. My name is Rolland Todd. I have followed your career since you were a kid in Orange County and I was coaching basketball at Santa Ana College from [...]
About 28 years ago I was exposed to the idea of transformation. I was immediately excited about the concept as it so seemed to apply to my lifes work as a basketball coach. I had an accomplished career to that date but was concerned about my inability to reach some of the young men I [...]
A couple of weeks ago I attended a reunion of my high school graduating class. That would be the 60th anniversary. The high school I attended was very small, only about 250 kids. Then of course was my graduating class was also very small with 51 kids. The reunion every year is an all-school event [...]
In the book I wrote for athletic coaches called œThe Art of Losing, the tag line refers to our Made-for-TV World, (Book is available at lulu.com). Other than golf, perhaps baseball has benefited more from television than any other sport. I am not talking about actual game coverage. I am talking about Sports Center on [...]
The world has been buzzing for the past few days about the death of Osama bin Laden. Here in the good old USA it has been cause for patriotic celebrating. At NBA play-off games, for example, the singing of the National Anthem has been a more celebrated event than usual. It is too bad someone [...]
What is it that has some leaders be so effective and the majority of people in leadership have to work so hard at it? I am not saying that the effective ones dont have problems to deal with; thats just life. They are just those œnaturals that have a make-up that has people around them [...]
The NBA, National Basketball Association, has begun their marathon play-offs to determine this years champion. I say marathon not so much due to the number of games it takes to determine the winner but how long it takes. Pretty soon we will be watching a final game at our Fourth of July BBQ. This lengthy [...]
As long as I have been coaching people, one of the most difficult situations that coaches deal with is when to let go of an unproductive relationship. I am talking athletes here. I know that œback in the day I was probably way too slow to declare that there was no way I could figure [...]