Free Basketball Teams – 03/25/06

Our basketball predictions: Utah to keep up with the Kings, Mavericks to beat the Hawks, and the Clippers to demolish the Wizards. Kings @ Jazz: Utah hasn’t done a good job keeping up with the Kings. With the Lakers and Hornets still in contention, a win here against the Kings could be their biggest challenge of the year. The last […]

Why is Roger Maris not in the Baseball Hall of Fame?

Roger Maris played Major League Ball (MLB) for 12 seasons, from 1957 to 1968. He played for four different teams (Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Royals, New York Yankees, and St. Louis Cardinals). He appeared in seven World Series, winning three of them. He was a two-time (consecutive) American League MVP, seven-time All Star (1959-1962 2 all-star games a year), and […]

Early specialization: how not to train an elite athlete

The general public rarely allows sports science to interfere with their deeply held beliefs, even when the beliefs are more myth than reality. When I was a basketball coach in Ireland, young Irish players believed that the greatness of basketball was not in their genes. They said the Irish were not meant to be great athletes. Meanwhile, the Irish rugby […]

What is a delayed robbery?

In this article, I will explain what a delayed robbery is. I’ll start by defining what a stolen base is and then describe what constitutes a delayed robbery. Below I will give some tips on how to achieve one successfully. And finally, I will suggest some situations where a delayed robbery could be used. A stolen base occurs when a […]

Golf Instruction: Get Like a Tiger

I would like to share some golf instruction that helped improve my game. I learned this bit of posting information while watching Tiger Woods on TV a few years ago. The best thing about this putting technique is that you can see the results immediately by following Tiger Wood’s example. As that great baseball philosopher Yogi Berra once said, “You […]