The end of the basketball season means the end of an era for legendary college basketball coach Don Meyer who coached his last game this weekend. If you are not entirely familiar with Coach Meyer's story, click here. It doesn't get much better than Coach Meyer, here are some video highlights: http://espn.go.com/videohub/player/embed.swf My favorite quote: [...]
I'm always looking for nuances that help explain things. I like finding patterns and see how to apply them for added advantage. From some notes that I received a little while ago, here are some interesting "truisms" courtesy of Kevin Eastman, the Assistant Coach for the Boston Celtics, TRUISM # 1: There is a direct [...]
For all you history buffs out there (yes, I count myself as one of them), this is a short look at the Black Fives Era by ESPN's Outside the Lines. The Black Fives was a traveling team during the 1930s, a time when racial segregation was the norm. A great way to teach social history [...]
From a few days ago on ESPN, this is a great 1 on 1 conversation about motivation and leadership with one of my favorite college coaches Lorenzo Romar of the University of Washington Huskies. I have to admit that his style of coaching is very much the way I model myself after, he's not much [...]
In watching some local playoff games the other day, I caught one game where one team's M2M help-recover defense was causing the other team's motion offense all kinds of problems. When it comes to the playoffs, it's all about the adjustments, everyone knows what everyone else is running, so the ability to make subtle but [...]