“So many great games against one another, as a coach and a fan of the game, I found it appropriate to congratulate the VBHS players and their coaching staff on a tremendous job.” As a sports reporter, scrolling through my Twitter feed usually means looking at a predictable collection of highlights, scholarship offers and teenage […]

When done correctly, you should feel an extra bit of propulsion from the kick getting into the catch, something that is more subtle (but still important) with flutter kick. This week’s tip combines elements of two strokes, freestyle and butterfly, to work on coordination, body awareness, and overall body connection to improve the catch in […]

It is extremly important to practice against spikers who approach and get a set from the setter – as soon as the arm/hands position and footwork have been learned Drills are excellent for the beginning players to get the correct feel for the blocking – but also work very well for more experienced players who […]

Getting stuck at the end of the bench does not foster participation. And we all know greater participation is sorely needed in youth sports. Under which condition is it “fair” to use equal playing time and under which condition is it “fair” to use unequal playing time? That’s one of the questions asked in a […]

“This about developing character and how sports teach us values that create good citizens that know how to follow rules, compete, and how to win and lose with dignity.” The new president of Mexico has made one thing very clear in his first six months in office: He wants to see more baseball played south […]

Florida has an estimated 400,000 children who need behavioral-health services, but 55 percent of them don’t get any treatment, members of a health-care panel were told Thursday. That translates to 220,000 children across the state, or about one child in every classroom, health official Jeffrey Brosco told members of the Florida Healthy Kids Corp. Board of […]

No matter how much we try to settle our focus, it wants to explore, think about other stuff, and generally not hang out with us and our goals. The challenges presented to the enterprising swimmer with golden goals on their mind are very real. The hurdles come in hot and chlorinated: The daily sharpening of […]

On the 40 NCAA Division I women’s college hockey rosters last season, there were 157 Minnesotans, which led the country by a considerable margin. Massachusetts was second with 106. While the Minnesota Gophers women’s hockey team fell one game short of bringing another NCAA title to Minnesota in March, the overall state of hockey for […]

Team cohesion is essential to every sport, including individual sports. “Believing that your qualities are carved in stone – which is part of having a fixed mindset – discourages risk-taking and revision. People with a fixed mindset avoid challenging situations that might lead to failure because success depends upon protecting and promoting their set of […]

Naturally, hockey players don’t exactly like to have crappy workouts or perform like crap in their next game, so, muscle soreness is a major problem. Why Do Hockey Players Get Sore? Although it’s common knowledge that soreness is something that goes hand-in-hand with difficult physical activity such a working out or playing a hard hockey […]