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 [...]
Coaches clearly know the value of practice. But, I am not as clear about their relationship to practice. They are freaked out when circumstances prevent a scheduled practice. Or, the team has a “bad” practice. Or, they worry did we have enough practice? The truth is that no one knows the perfect number of practices [...]
Coaches are revered in our society. Young athletes tend to put them on a pedestal whether it is deserved or not. Many coaches have been trained by the media, so they “say the right things”. I wonder if we “be” who we say we are. Here is a quote from a woman I know nothing [...]
For those of you who have been around for awhile I have a question—”Did this ever happen to you?" “Did what happen?" you are thinking. The answer to that question is as follows. First,a little background. As you climb the ladder in your chosen profession or career the leadership accountabilities grow. At some point you [...]
I spent this weekend in Seattle with my friends Chris and Allison Russell and their two children, Kiley and Logan. I love them so much. I think what I love the most is the way they pay attention to their most important project—being a family. I have had the honor and pleasure of having Chris [...]
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 [...]
His “bandwagon” has always had a lot of passengers and continues to gather more as he completes his illustrious career with the New York Yankees. Just beginning and ending with the same team these days is a big accomplishment … maybe that says as much about who Derek Jeter is as anything. I read a [...]
Given we are psychological beings, it is no surprise that the field of sports psychology has grown rapidly over the years. There was a time that performers wouldn’t do anything that “messed with their minds,” … even though their minds were a mess. Today, however, the majority of high performers have someone they work with. [...]
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, [...]