Through it all … the Olympics … the NBA All-Star Game … the Super Bowl … the biggest sports success story could well be coming from Storrs, Conn.
That’s home to the UConn women’s basketball team, which extended its winning streak to 64 games yesterday with a victory over St.John’s.
Who dominates like the Huskies do? Not [...]
This coming Sunday, millions of people will demonstrate the power that is within them. They’ll do it by the simple act of watching the Super Bowl.
What exactly does watching the Super Bowl prove? Everything. It proves that people have the ability to set goals and work to achieve them.
Just think. How often do you find [...]
Just as in Canada’s Grey Cup, a too-many-men penalty made all the difference in yesterday’s Vikings-Saints game.
Everyone associated with the Vikings — players, coaches and fans — will long remember a detail that cost the team a chance to go to the Super Bowl.
“Just the slightest bit of miscommunication,” left guard Steve Hutchinson said on [...]
Duane Thomas, a Dallas Cowboys running back of long ago, went down in history for his take on the Super Bowl.
A breathless reporter once approached Thomas and asked him what it was like to be playing in the ultimate game. “If it’s the ultimate game, how come they’re playing it again next year?” Thomas replied.
At [...]
Urban Meyer could have been speaking for thousands of coaches when he said that he had been ignoring his health.
Consumed by their passion for the job, these coaches build up stress and neglect healthy habits. Meyer, coach of Florida’s football team, apparently was one of them. Chest pains were enough to convince him it was [...]
Brian Kelly is the latest to try his luck of the Irish in the Notre Dame football program.
Unfortunately for Kelly, the job is not what it once was. For sure, the prestige, visibility and the expectations are the same as ever, but one key factor can never be what it was in the old days: [...]
If nothing else, the Tiger Woods sage proves one thing: No one has it all.
Tiger certainly seemed to. He had money, fame and a new family. But now his image is in shambles, and who knows how he will move on from here?
Whatever happens, the story brings to mind the two biggest mistakes that competitors [...]
In a game filled with fun moments last night, the best came in the last four seconds of the Giants-Cowboys contest.
Lawrence Tynes was waiting to make a kick that would either give the Giants a last-second victory or leave them one point short. The Cowboys were trying to mess with his mind. And Tynes just [...]
Today’s quote is so powerful that we can let it speak for itself. Let me just add that it coincides nicely with the recent announcement that John Wooden has been named the greatest coach in U.S. history. Wooden preached “Make every day a masterpiece.”
Here is the quote, provided by Lauren Shears, assistant women’s volleyball coach [...]
Give attention to the details and excellence will come.” ~ Perry Paxton
As a player, Gary Burley helped the Cincinnati Bengals reach the Super Bowl. Today, as a coach and mentor, he is now helping young people reach for the heights. He founded ProStart Academy, whose goal is to produce “citizen athletes.”
“Coaches have to communicate the whole game,” [...]