Tag: New York Times

How To Grow A Super Athlete

I stumbled on these two postings again today while surfing the net and don’t believe I’ve shared them previously in this forum. Hopefully I’m not being repetitious. (If so, your myelin levels will benefit! Read on.) Both are from NYtimes.com…. (1) The Appetizer – THE BRAINS BEHIND THE TALENT [Video]: This one just wets the …

Steve Nash: What Makes Him Tick

I’m going to try, with great effort, to keep this one short… Check out NYtimes.com Play Magazine. It’s a well written article on Steve Nash; more so, about who he is off-court and part of what makes him tick. In it, the author Chip Brown asks Nash what drove him, beyond the obvious goal of …

A Conversation With Kareem

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a big proponent of standing on the shoulders of giants. And, I love to borrow the idea from legendary Princeton coach, Pete Carril, that the smart steal from the strong. With both of those ideas in mind, take some time to watch this video feature by the New York Times called Conversations. …

Teaching Vision In Basketball

The NYTimes.com featured and article, “It’s a Vision Thing for Nash in Soccer and Basketball.”  To be frank, it’s not an overly enticing read, but what jumped out to me was something that I’ve been toiling with at length for quite some time: vision.  And, how to teach it. In the article, Claudio Reyna, long-time …