John Wooden, who coached UCLA to 10 NCAA basketball titles, used one secret. Make his secret your secret and you can do the impossible.
Count me out of March Madness. I think of it as March Sadness. People on Facebook have been asking me to join pools and fill out brackets when the time comes, but it’s very hard for me to get worked up over a system that is based on corruption. Don’t get me wrong. I admire […]
Here comes the next frontier in training. It’s the brain. Evidence suggests that an athlete’s gray matter is fundamentally different from another person’s. And if this is the case, then the brain — more than ever — controls all three aspects of performance: physical, mental and emotional. In the April issue of Discover magazine, author […]
Every problem disguises a possibility. And so it is with all the snowstorms, which, among other things, have complicated life for baseball and softball coaches around large parts of the United States. Fields are covered with snow. One coach in Virginia told me he doesn’t expect to even see green until April. Even so, the […]