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The article offers information on the overload/underload (OU) training in baseball that is employed to increase athlete's efficiency. It discusses a study conducted on professional baseball players to show the effectiveness of the training techniques in throwing velocity of the players using weighed baseball. It concludes that an interval throwing program with weighted balls increase velocity, stamina and endurance and improves the accuracy, arm strength and on field performance.

The article focuses on the importance of goal setting in basketball. It discusses the views of several basketball coaches including Jim Calhoun, Sidney Goldstein and John Wooden who advices to set clearly defined goals for the success of the team and encourages to use statistics and goals to plan practices. It also evaluates the Midwestern Division I basketball program (Team A) of Western Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA) during their 2008-2009 regular season.

The article provides advice for how physical education teachers can transform traditional elementary physical education activities to make them more beneficial, participatory, and enjoyable. The article describes modifications to dodgeball, kickball, relay races, sideline soccer, Messy Back Yard, Simon Says, and tag.