Washington Post – Sep 3, 2007 – Rich Campbell – Soccer Team Mourns Beloved Leader, Attempts to Regroup – A brilliant morning sun rose above the hills behind Magruder High School’s soccer field on Aug. 15 when Coach Steve Pfeil began the speech he had rehearsed in his mind for nearly five months.… Read the rest

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ABQ Journal – Feb 08, 2006 – Rick Wright – I don’t know Bill Leavy personally, but what I know about him, I like. And respect. Leavy, the much-vilified referee in Sunday’s Super Bowl, was the Mountain West Conference head of football officials from 1999-2002.… Read the rest

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Minneapolis Star Tribune – Apr 23, 2006 – Mark Craig – Are NFL teams doing all they can to develop accurate pyschological profiles on prospective draft picks? Not really, says sports psychologist Dr. John F. Murray. Dr. John F. Murray, a sport performance and clinical psychologist who has consulted many professional sports teams and players, said he believes the NFL can do a better job developing psychological profiles on prospective draft picks.… Read the rest

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Washington Post – Nov 16, 2007 – Alan Goldenbach – Whenever a player slowed, the 6-foot-8 senior co-captain would yell, “Hard bodies!” His teammates would then repeat the words in unison. After running and lifting weights for an hour Nov. 6, Anderson was too worn out to play ball.… Read the rest

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Apr 18, 2007 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ‘74 Dolphins Lead After Eight Weeks of Super Bowl Study Palm Beach, FL – April 19, 2007 – After eight weeks of studying every play in Super Bowl history from 1967-1974, the 1974 Miami Dolphins have emerged as both the “most dominant team” and the “best performing team” owing to their .580 to .421 defeat of the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl VIII on a “Mental Performance Index” (MPI) statistic which measures how closely a team came to perfection in a game.… Read the rest

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Jan 25, 2007 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Football Shrink: ‘Colts Far Superior to Bears’ Dr. John F. Murray, a licensed clinical and sport performance psychologist (aka the “Football Shrink,” and the “Freud of Football” by the Washington Post) provides data to show that the Indianapolis Colts have performed much better than the Chicago Bears in the NFL playoffs.… Read the rest

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Stuart News, The (FL) – Aug 8, 1998 – Author: Patrick McManamon Scripps Howard News Service – Part 2 of a 6-part series – Otto Graham has seen many sports fans come and go. Graham was a Hall of Fame quarterback for the Cleveland Browns in the 1940s and ’50s and coach of the Washington Redskins in the ’60s.… Read the rest

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AFP (Paris) – Dec 10, 2007 – Justin Davis – Just ask alpine skier Antoine Deneriaz. The Frenchman caused one of the biggest upsets of the Turin winter Olympics in 2006 when he stunned American Bode Miller and Austrian Michael Walchhofer, both former world champions, to win gold in the men’s downhill.… Read the rest

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