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1. Caught looking: when I was asked to step down as the manager of the Houston Astros last year, I bade a bittersweet farewell to a team I had loved for more than three decades. Among the many lessons I learned: how to motivate millionaires, how to lose in the playoffs, and how to wear a Hawaiian shirt

Author

Dierker, Larry

Subjects
Houston Astros -- Management, Baseball managers -- Behavior, Baseball teams -- Personalities, Baseball players -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Coaching (Athletics) -- Personal narratives, Baseball (Professional) -- Personal narratives
Abstract

"Have you ever seen anyone with a Hawaiian shirt on who wasn't having a good time?" --Larry Dierker, 1996 Aloha. I JUST WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT I NEVER ASKED […]

Published
2002

2. A lifetime game of catch

Author

Gibson, Donovan

Subjects
Coaching (Athletics) -- Personal narratives, Baseball -- Personal narratives -- United States, Fathers and sons -- Personal narratives, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

I remember seeing the light in my father's eyes for the first time. It was a brief, but I know I not only saw it.... I felt it. As fleeting [...]

Published
2011

3. Get Coach!

Author

Skinner, David

Subjects
Soccer -- Personal narratives -- Social aspects -- United States, Coaching (Athletics) -- Personal narratives, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: David Skinner A Say goodbye to Mondays. Twelve girls have signed up, the assistant coach has committed to another season, and I can't actually say no. I will again [...]

Published
2010

5. Listen to the coach. (View Point)

Author

Hyland, Patrick

Subjects
Petroleum chemicals industry -- Conferences, meetings and seminars, Petroleum chemicals industry -- Speeches, lectures and essays, Coaching (Athletics) -- Methods, Coaching (Athletics) -- Personal narratives, Petroleum, energy and mining industries
Abstract

The hotel ballroom roared to life with the applause of 375 propane professionals anxious to hear a national sports icon and one of America's most inspiring speakers at the NPGA [...]

Published
2003

6. Lessons I have learned

Author

Curry, Tom

Subjects
Coaching (Athletics) -- Personal narratives, Sports for children -- Personal narratives, Consumer news and advice, Education, Family and marriage, Health
Abstract

This month, I would like to change gears and talk about what I have learned in my years of coaching kids and working with parents. It never ceases to amaze [...]

Published
2014

9. Bobcats, Baptists and beers

Author

Baker, James T.

Subjects
Coaching (Athletics) -- Personal narratives, Women's softball -- Personal narratives
Published
1979

10. A bus-stop tennis clinic

Author

Gessford, Roy

Subjects
Coaching (Athletics) -- Personal narratives, Tennis -- Study and teaching -- Personal narratives, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Roy Gessford During the winter of 2002, I had the opportunity to teach tennis at a luxury hotel in Nevis, an idyllic spot in the British Virgin Islands in [...]

Published
2013

11. Should you find yourself a career coach?

Author

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

Subjects
Career development -- Personal narratives -- Management, Coaching (Athletics) -- Personal narratives, Health, Health care industry, Company business management, Management, Personal narratives
Abstract

As a manager, you make hundreds of decisions every month regarding your staff, your projects, and use of your company's resources but what about decisions regarding the big picture of [...]

Published
2008

12. Call me Coach: lessons from the sidelines

Author

Jenkins, Anthony

Subjects
Soccer players -- Behavior -- Social aspects, Coaching (Athletics) -- Personal narratives, Soccer coaches -- Practice, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: ANTHONY JENKINS Facts & Arguments / THE ESSAY This week, I'll introduce myself to a group of 16 total strangers - and chances are few will remember my name. [...]

Published
2010

13. A climb to the mountain top: how one coach did it

Author

Hendricks, Wes

Subjects
Coaches (Athletics) -- Personal narratives, Coaching (Athletics) -- Personal narratives, Business, Sports, sporting goods and toys industry, Personal narratives
Abstract

After reading several articles in Scholastic Coach, I began wondering whether there were any other coaches like myself out there in Disneyland. As a boy, I had dreamed of taking [...]

Published
2005

14. The natural

Author

Biebel, Dan M.

Subjects
Track and field coaches -- Personal narratives, Coaching (Athletics) -- Personal narratives, Teachers, Rating of -- Personal narratives, Education
Abstract

Appraising teachers' performance is not always beneficial because it forces them to comply with certain teaching standards. Teachers may change their teaching styles so they can get high evaluation scores. Naturally capable teachers may lose their motivation and imaginativeness in teaching because of the pressure to conform.

Published
1992

16. NCAA regional brought coaching royalty to Indianapolis

Author

Benner, Bill

Subjects
College sports -- Personal narratives, Coaching (Athletics) -- Personal narratives, Business, Business, regional, NCAA -- Services
Abstract

My volunteer role at the NCAA's Midwest Regional at Lucas Oil Stadium was to serve as press conference moderator. It's not heavy lifting. You climb onto a raised podium, place [...]

Published
2013

17. Another one takes the bait

Subjects
Coaching (Athletics) -- Personal narratives, Automobile racing -- Personal narratives, Automobiles, Racing -- Personal narratives, Automobiles
Abstract

The two things I do most in the SCCA are Solo and Club Racing, and in neither am I particularly any good. The brutal truth is: No one with even [...]

Published
2010

18. Finding fulfillment in coaching

Author

Brunk, Doug

Subjects
Coaching (Athletics) -- Personal narratives
Abstract

If you're a sports junkie who longs for a chance to coach youth sports teams at the community level, but you figure you just don't have the time to get [...]

Published
2005

19. Speak out

Subjects
Coaching (Athletics) -- Personal narratives, Coaching (Athletics) -- Methods
Abstract

Walt Harrison, 11, of Austin, TX, wrote: "At my new School, I play football. I am not the best player and I don't get to play much. I think we […]

Published
2002

20. Football and the Corinthians

Author

Hanna, Suhail

Subjects
Football, Coaching (Athletics) -- Personal narratives, General interest, Philosophy and religion, Sterling College
Published
1979

21. Coaching a tough job

Author

Barney, Chuck

Subjects
Coaching (Athletics) -- Personal narratives, Coaches (Athletics) -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
Abstract

Back in 1988, Jerry Reynolds flicked on the radio in his car and received his first overpowering signal that coaching in pro sports wasn't all it's cracked up to be. […]

Published
1997

22. Columbia coach likes his freedom

Subjects
Columbia University, Fencing -- Study and teaching, Civil rights, Coaching (Athletics) -- Personal narratives, Kogler, Aladar -- Interviews
Published
1983

23. Coaches' corner

Subjects
Coaching (Athletics) -- Personal narratives, Sports -- Personal narratives
Abstract

"I never care what they say about me in the papers, as long as it isn't true." --Jimmy Connors Pat Hayden, watching Jeff George frantically scrambling for the sideline with […]

Published
1994

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