Well, it’s headed for 100 degrees here in New Jersey, USA. The heat wave led one radio announcer to say, “It was a rough winter and a very wet spring. No reason to think the summer won’t be extreme, too.” One of my favorite quotes came from the world-class instruction at the Gold Medal Squared […]
Sorry to have neglected the blog for so long. Various book projects are taking up time and energy. But today the message is so important that I had to get it out there. Think of it as: How to grow the next Phil Mickelson. Jeff Beer is the golf coach at the Montclair Kimberley Academy […]
A few days ago the Record newspaper of Bergen County, N.J., printed an essay from a student on the amount of homework today’s students receive. I know virtually nothing about modern homework: how much there is, what it consists of, etc. All I know is that the backpacks the kids use today seem bigger and […]
New Jersey’s top-ranked boys high school basketball is facing expulsion from the state tournament for holding illegal practices before the season, the Star-Ledger reported today. St. Patrick’s, ranked fifth in the entire country, is the school in question. Here is the article. Rules about out-of-season practice vary from state to state. In New Jersey, players […]
Yesterday’s “Miracle on the Hudson,” in which an airline pilot safely landed a jet in the river between New York and New Jersey, illustrates a point about peak performance: You never know when you are going to need a skill that you work on in practice. If you’ve ever flown, you know that the cabin […]