Dear Kobe:You are an amazing athlete. You get paid a lot of money to play basketball and endorse sports shoes. You get lots of media attention. People watch what you do and listen to what you have to say. People wear your jersey and root for you. Many of these people are young and they look up to … [Read more...]
KSwiss Sponsorship Opportunities
Bike Diva Races 2011 marks my 4th season of racing. My complete racing schedule can be viewed on the Bike Diva blog: Bike Diva's Races. I have a few companies that sponsor me, by sending me free or discounted equipment, gear and sports nutrition products. I've written on the topic of athletic … [Read more...]
5 Ways To Make Conflict Work For You And Your Team
source Have you ever had a friend who was obviously upset or sad? … [Read more...]
How To Play Your Playoff Role
Every girls hockey player wants to be the one the coach calls upon to win the big game in the playoffs. … [Read more...]
What Sports Are Really About
From the "That's what it's really all about" files I give you Dylan Galloway: Galloway is the Arkansas teen with cerebral palsy that scored a touchdown for his high school. A life long dream of his, he had been bugging the head football coach, Toby Doke, all year. In the fourth quarter of an … [Read more...]
Kids These Days… They Aren’t All Bad
Every Sunday morning I start out the day reading the paper. It's my favorite way to start/end the week. This Sunday I read an article about a local high school football team that had me in tears. Normally I can't stand the little high-schoolers, but these kids may have restored a little bit of my … [Read more...]
Moments like this one
This morning as I was doing my normal online news creep session, I came across this. I know most of our news is horrible news. Many of it contains sad stories and things that make you cringe at humanity today. But this was different. I teared up as I watched the video. Reminds you that there are … [Read more...]
Hope Solo blunders again and WPS is partly to blame (Slightly Updated)
Hope Solo won't be appearing in a WPS game for another six months and yet her name still appears in the headlines. The Atlanta Beat goalkeeper is the recipient of the costliest disciplinary fine ever handed out by WPS. This is just the second time a player has been hit with a monetary punishment and … [Read more...]
Solo is a jackass, but so what? (And maybe even good)
Note to Note: I have to update this post now that I've seen the deciding goal that Hope complained about. … [Read more...]
Big Babies
The timing is perfect. Kids are starting fall sports, lots of kids for the very first time, and the guys who get paid to play are losing their minds. I have written before about conversations with my baseball-obsessed son regarding his favorite players making bad choices. In his five year old world … [Read more...]