This past week’s Sports Illustrated featured tonight’s football game for the National Championship between the University of Oregon and Ohio State University. It is the culmination of the first real playoff in Division I college football. In this issue there was another article, one by Seth Davis about someone I have always loved spending time [...]
Given I’ve been coaching for over 50 years, I am always very interested in what others coaches do. For the most part, what I don’t get to discover is who they “be” in delivering the daily practices that develop their team. Mostly I use how their teams go about their business. What kinds of winners [...]
Today is the first day of the second workshop we have done at Providence College over the past few days. We worked with the lacrosse team last weekend and are working with the softball team starting this afternoon. The work we are doing is called Building a Championship Team, and we have been teaching this [...]
A couple of weeks ago the best basketball team I ever coached at the community college level had a reunion in Las Vegas. Even though we were a California team, we felt that Las Vegas would attract the largest number of team members. Also, we had athletes from both coasts on the team. Of course, [...]
We hear it all year long. It’s “playoff time.” Football, basketball, baseball, etc. My question is “what were we doing during the season?” I am no mathematician, but I thought 100% was 100%. Shouldn’t we be practicing at 100%, performing at 100%, playing as a team at 100%? It seems to me that if we [...]
The structure of the NCAA and intercollegiate athletics is under fire and rightfully so. How it has evolved has had many lose sight of the value of the experience for the athlete and those who know the athlete. Yesterday morning the University of California, Berkeley was represented in the women’s singles tennis final by a [...]
This past week, the basketballl world lost a great participant in the game he loved. His name is Bill Sharman and he was my idol and my friend. We both called Porteville, CA (I was born there) our home and we actually coached in the NBA (Los Angeles and Portland) at the same time. Not [...]
I have written in the past about one of today’s inductee’s and how much he deserved to be honored. Jerry Tarkanian and I were roommates in college, so I have a special spot in my heart for him. I was his assistant for a year at Riverside City College. We were 37-0 and won the [...]
In a highly contested seven-game series, the NBA Finals are over. I know this because it is almost the 4th of July. The Miami Heat and the San Antonio Spurs left it all on the court. The Heat has earned the title of “World Champion.” The Heat’s Lebron James was clearly the MVP of the [...]
The NBA Finals will be rapidly coming to a close this week. The San Antonio Spurs are up 3-2 on the Miami Heat with two games to play in Miami. I don’t know what the odds are in Las Vegas as the eventual winner, but even though Miami is down in the series I’ll bet [...]