Here’s one that will go down in history for both schools.
Coaching Tips : 7 Great strategies for preparing athletes for adversity during March Madness or any tournament for any sport.
The other night at practice, coaches began discussing an athlete who seems to reject feedback from whomever offers it. We wondered why certain athletes accept feedback when others don’t. But this turns out to be the wrong question. The issue isn’t why some athletes reject feedback. The issue is how well the coaches give it. […]
Tennis star Tommy Haas has become the latest professional athlete to be diagnosed with the swine flu. Haas, 31, ranked 17th in the world, pulled out of a tournament in Stockholm last week after becoming ill. He first thought it was normal flu but then had himself tested. Haas’ case brings special notice because with […]
One of our graduated players has taken the time to email, saying she loves her new school– Duke University. I envy her. On her campus is one of the great coaches in the world, Mike Krzyzewski. He not only coaches the university’s men’s basketball team, but he also led the United States men to a […]
Back in my sports writing days, I always tried to sit next to one particular person in the pressbox because he seemed to see so much in the game. He was WATCHING the same thing the rest of us were, but he always SAW more. Listening to his insights, and hearing him pick apart the […]
Last night my friend, Dr. Rob Gilbert, made a bit of a pilgrimage. He went to nearby Montclair, N.J., to walk past the childhood home of astronaut Buzz Aldrin. On the 40th anniversary of the day man first walked on the moon, Dr. Gilbert, a sports psychologist, stared at Aldrin’s home. “To look at the […]
Whether you’re a golfer or not, Lucas Glover’s victory in the U.S. Open has valuable lessons for you. He struggled in the first half of the final round, but hung in there. The moral is: Just because your GAME is a mess doesn’t mean that YOU have to be a mess.
If there’s one thing that every coach and athlete wants to know, it’s how to get primed for the big game. There’s really only one answer to that question: There are no big games. There are only big moments, and the biggest moment is right now. Here’s how it works: Most people have no trouble […]