News Coverage

Editor’s note: This week the local paper did an expose about a local high school wresting coach who was arrested and charged with sexual assault on a minor by a person in a position of trust.  Turns out this coach has a stellar won-loss record, steered his team to a State Championship and was...
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From the Editor (10.1.2011)  Some of you may begin hearing about Dave Scott and Mark Allen’s concerns over the upcoming release of Matt Fitzgerald’s depiction of  (“IronWar”, VeloPress, 2011).  They feel strongly enough about the piece to sue the author and VeloPress for defamation of character and state flat out that there are erroneous...
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By Dr. Stephen E. Walker, PhD, CC-AASP Have you ever wondered how your thinking might influence your physical health, performance or well-being? In the second quarter issue of 2005, research was presented by Dr. Alan Rozanski in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology focused on developments in the field of Behavioral Cardiology....
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From the editor:  In light of the USA Women’s Soccer Team and its unfortunate loss yesterday to Japan in the World Cup – this article is particularly timely.  Not only did the US team fail to hold leads on two different occasions, they were out-hustled by a Japanese team that kept on coming. Coming...
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There are all kinds of coaches.  Some are CEO’s, some are Presidents of the United States, some are coaching the U12 soccer team down the road.  Some are good, some aren’t so hot, and a few are great.  Simon Hartley spoke of the “reasons” an athlete is training in the pool at 5am each...
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Its never good news to learn of a friend’s passing, but in this case, those of us at Podium Sports Journal who knew him are particularly saddened.  On Friday May 27th Dr. Julian Morrow, “J” to his friends, succumbed to the second of two heart attacks. I spoke with him a week ago.  He...
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by Stephen Walker, PhD, CC-AASP, USOC Registry of Sport Psychologists and Loren Fogelman, MEd,  EFT-ADV, Sport Performance Consultant   -When Gifted Athletes Fall from Grace- “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all” - Dale...
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by Stephen Walker, PhD, CC-AASP, USOC Registry of Sport Psychologists When Brian Boyle first became known to Podium Sports Journal, he had just earned the moniker of “Iron Heart”. Brian had demonstrated remarkable courage in recovery from a horrible car accident in 2004 (where he was pronounced clinically dead 8 times) proving his is...
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Editor’s Comment: Thanks to Lewis Howes of Sports Networker Magazine for allowing me to reprint this article written by Wesley Mallette.  Wesley is a former Division I football player and decathlete who is the Co-founder and CEO Comment Communications, Inc. Comment is a creative, progressive and saavy sports and entertainment communications firm that services...
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  We’ve all been in the situation on the golf course where the errant swing takes us where we never wanted to go.  This set of videos by Will Robinson to promote his teaching method was found on YouTube and it is almost the funniest thing I’ve seen in golf – save the swing...
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