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Editor’s Note: This excerpt is from Michael O’Halloran’s Never Forget They’re Kids – Ideas for Coaching Your Daughter’s 4th-8th Grade Basketball Team. It addresses the benefits of videotaping youth basketball practices and games. The Value of Video Several times throughout the season, I find value in videotaping players and their play on the court. As a coach, it helps slow things down, and you can
MVP Offseason Workouts is a new line of ebooks for young athletes ages 10 – 17. Baseball and basketball titles are currently available, and softball is scheduled to be published by the end of March. Each title provides a 6 or 9-week guided course on improving skills and getting in shape for the regular season. 18 Structured Offseason Workouts “We’ve packaged together 18 guided workouts
Football is the most popular sport in America. It only stands to reason that some folks will try to poke a little fun at one of our favorites. Here are 11 football quotes we found to be humorous. What do you think? Funniest Football Quotes Football Insights Go to SportsFeelGoodStories.com for more funny football quotes. Hundreds of funny, inspirational, motivational football quotations, slogans, and sayings.
Game after game, season after season, the best baseball coaches are easy to spot. Their teams may not always be blessed with the most natural talent. But come playoff time, they know what they’re doing. How do you field, where do you throw, how do you execute a bunt and more? Coaching makes a big difference in baseball. What is it about the great baseball
Are you ready for some football? Fantasy Football continues to get bigger and better each year. As an owner/coach, the key is preparation. You have to prepare for the draft. Prepare line-ups each week. But it all starts with coming up with a team name. Regarding a Fantasy Football team name, there are many directions to take. See Fantasy Football Fun Beyond Draft Day. Funny
Many baseball coaches have ingrained practice plans. Others like to take a far more casual approach and improvise. As a general rule of thumb, coaches who come prepared to practice with a fairly tight agenda can accomplish much more. Baseball Practice Plans – The Value of Planning And Ideas As a baseball coach, I often find that there are so many goals to accomplish. And
All sports have some form of tradition associated with them. Cheers and chants play a major role in softball, adding more energy and excitement. While softball cheers are mostly longer and include stunts or body movements, chants are shorter and repetitive throughout a certain action. The cheers and chants are often repeated to a rhythm or sung to the melody of some popular pop or
“It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” – Paul “Bear” Bryant Nobody lacks the will to win, but the winners are those who have prepared. Natural talent can only take you so far, but putting in the practice time is the only thing that will take you to the next level. Take any
As a youth sports coach, are you working with structured practice plans? As the saying goes, practice makes perfect, and this is especially true in sports. For basketball, softball, and baseball, where teamwork, coordination, and skill are paramount, having a well-structured practice plan can make all the difference in a team’s performance. Coaches who take the time to prepare detailed practice plans enhance their team’s
