Amid the swamp of college athletics, we see a school that wants to live clean. Spelman College of Atlanta has decided to leave the NCAA and focus on fitness instead of competition. According to this article in the New York Times, Spelman joins the New York City College of Technology in Brooklyn in leaving the […]
No matter who you pick in the upcoming NCAA tournaments, you can be sure of one thing: The winner will have to overcome adversity. Injuries, bad calls and momentum swings will test the will of all teams, and the one that responds best will win. It will take mental toughness to survive, which raises a […]
Jim Tressel’s case should remind all of us that there is more to coaching than winning. Tressel, football coach at Ohio State, is the head of a tainted program. In the latest development in an eligibility scandal, the NCAA has accused Tressel of failing to conduct himself with “honesty and integrity.” It also said he […]
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 […]