Remember the other day, when chef Thomas Keller was saying that the steps in cooking are not particularly difficult? Well, today we have legendary soccer coach Anson Dorrance saying the same thing in a different way. Dorrance, whose team plays in the NCAA quarterfinals today in pursuit of the program’s 21st national championship, discusses excellence […]
Nothing quite matches the excitement of Day One of training camp. Seeing old faces, learning new ones, getting ready for all the challenges, facing the unknown … it sounds a lot like New Year’s Eve, just without the bad driving. It’s got more buzz than Kourtney Kardashian’s pregnancy. Only one thing takes away from the […]
Why do some coaches win ? The other night over dinner, we considered the ingredients: Is it X’s and O’s? Or is it relationships? And since successful coaches probably offer a mixture of strategy and psychology, what is the ratio? Yesterday’s New York Times carried a story on Jim Steen, legendary swimming coach at Kenyon […]
The other day I had the occasion to walk past the famous West 4th Street playground in Lower Manhattan in New York City. The playground has earned international renown for attracting some of the best basketball players in the world. You can bet that over the years, thousands of players have shown up at the […]