Two boots for the USA ...A charming gift accompanied the opening of the July 4, 2005 holiday season. It was the International Olympic Committee “IOC” redirects here. For other uses, see IOC (disambiguation). The International Olympic Committee (French: Comité International Olympique) is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas on June 23 informing the world that it was dropping two of Uncle Sam's traditional sports from the Olympic Games Olympic games, premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests. The Olympics of Ancient Greece Although records cannot verify games earlier than 776 B.C. . [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The sports: baseball and softball. Can you imagine such a thing? The first time in 26 years that an Olympic sport has been given the boot, and it turns out to be our national pastime! The second eviction The removal of a tenant from possession of premises in which he or she resides or has a property interest done by a landlord either by reentry upon the premises or through a court action. is another beauty, softball, in which the United States' women's team has never been beaten! Excuse us for refusing to debate this heinous hei·nous adj. Grossly wicked or reprehensible; abominable: a heinous crime. [Middle English, from Old French haineus, from haine, hatred, from crime. The world will go on. Sport will go on. The Olympics will survive. But couldn't the IOC IOC abbr. International Olympic Committee IOC n abbr (= International Olympic Committee) → COI m IOC n abbr (= have worked out a more equitable solution? Why kill two great American sports with one foul blow (we almost said one fly ball). It would have been so much easier to work out a nice little trade: our baseball and softball teams for anyone's immortal squash team, karate team, and roller sports team. GREEN GROW THE LILACS ... One of the more beautiful things about Title IX is the opportunity it presents to the girls who apparently sit around all their lives waiting for something interesting to happen. And then, suddenly, bang! It could be almost anything. A chance to play on a volleyball team. Or a soccer team. Or a relay team. Any old kind of team. But a chance to be active. To show what you can do in an organized game. What we find amazing about all this is how quickly it can happen and how amazing the result can be. Title IX is full of such stories. We know. We have read enough of them and we even keep a file of their names. We call it our "Green Grow the Lilacs" file. We're not quite sure whether it is American or not. Our hunch is that it isn't, but it did become internationally famous when the title was Americanized in a great Broadway hit. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] What has the title have to do with our file name? Absolutely nothing, except ... The word "Green" stands for a name ("Tina Sloan Tina Sloan (born February 1, 1943 in Bronxville, New York) is an American actress. Sloan has played the character of Lillian Raines on Guiding Light since 1983, though her character was dropped to recurring status in the 1990s and is on only very rarely. Green.") And who exactly is she? I first sighted the name in a coaching book on great-unknown athletes. "Tina Sloan" was one of them: "A fantastic Philadelphia all-around athlete who spent her teenage years growing up in the parks and learning how to become a legend in field hockey field hockey: see hockey, field. field hockey or hockey Game played with curve-ended sticks between two teams of 11 players. It is played on a field 100 yd (91.4 m) by 60 yd (55 m) in size. , lacrosse lacrosse (ləkrôs`), ball and goal game usually played outdoors by two teams of 10 players each on a field 60 to 70 yd (54.86 to 64.01 m) wide by 110 yd (100.58 m) long. Two goals face each other 80 yd (73. , and badminton badminton (băd`mĭntən), game played by volleying a shuttlecock (called a "bird")—a small, cork hemisphere to which feathers are attached—over a net. Light, gut-strung rackets are used. ." And after she became a super star in a half-dozen sports, she branched off into coaching. In her first 17 seasons of college coaching, her teams won three national titles plus 96 victories. Tina's proudest feat as a coach was becoming the first black and white lacrosse coach to succeed with a special recruiting gimmick: She'd recruit the same number of black and white players, then stay with that one group for four years. In most of the years she did this, she was able to produce a national champion! CROSS-COUNTRY ... Joe Newton Joe Newton or Joeseph Newton may be:
Here is the way he used to explain it at York H.S. in Oak Brook, IL. Of all the runners participating in amateur track, only 3% are going to put a foot on a track at college. And of those 3% only 1% are going to run for four years. As a coach, I ask you: Am I going to coach for that 1% or am I going to coach for the kid who can't break 10 minutes for two miles and help him win a state championship and achieve a dream that will last a lifetime? Let me tell you what a coach has to do: He has to coach what he has and get them to do the best they can. In the first 32 years we brought our team to the state meet, we won 17 firsts, 7 seconds, and four thirds. That was 28 out of 32 times that we helped our athletes achieve a dream. ("Where's the trophy, Coach? I want to see my name!") These moments are going to be treasured forever. THE OTHER THINGS ... (By Bill Musselman William Clifford (Bill) Musselman (August 13 1940 - May 5 2000) was an American basketball coach in the NCAA, the ABA, the WBA, the CBA, and the NBA. He was a fiercely intense coach who once was quoted as saying "defeat is worse than death, because you have to live with defeat. , the late first-ever head coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves The Minnesota Timberwolves are a professional basketball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Their organization is a member of the National Basketball Association (NBA). .) The things you miss most in your coaching career are the basketball fanatics that surround you. When I coached in Albany, there was a guy on the board of owners who was always taking me somewhere to eat and talk basketball. Then, of course, there was the P.A. announcer. After every game we'd sit and rehash re·hash tr.v. re·hashed, re·hash·ing, re·hash·es 1. To bring forth again in another form without significant alteration: rehashing old ideas. 2. To discuss again. the game, talk basketball. Those are the things you miss when you're out of it. I never coached for the money. It was always the other things. The thrill of the game; finding a way to get some points for your team. The X's and O's. The preparation. Talking basketball. Running into basketball people. I loved them. I loved the game. |
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