LA Daily News – Jill Painter – Feb 4, 2009 – Manny Ramirez scoffed at $25 million. He needed only one day to reject the latest offer from the Dodgers, aone-year deal in which Ramirez would become the second-highest paid player in baseball.… Read the rest
Newsday – Dec 6, 2005 – John Hanc – Honest runners say there’s no reward in taking shortcuts. John Hanc is a regular contributor to Newsday. Janese Decal was driving home from work when she stopped at a Freeport bank to withdraw some cash.… Read the rest
Financial Times of London – Simon Kuper – Sept 17, 2005 – The Kansas City Royals were already the worst team in baseball, but on Tuesday they had their worst moment of the season. When a Chicago White Sox batter hit a fly ball, two Royals outfielders settled beneath it.… Read the rest
Mental Equipment Syndicated Column – Sept 1, 1998 – Dr. John F. Murray – I often receive email from anxious parents wanting to know how to squeeze another ounce of athletic success from their children. In many cases, it seems that the parents are more interested in sport than their children!… Read the rest
ESPN.com – Sept 2, 2005 – Patrick Hruby, Page 2 Columnist – Wasteful, infantile, wantonly destructive. All of this is true. Yet to hear Bud Collins tell it, there’s an even better reason tennis players are discouraged from smashing their rackets.… Read the rest
I am the author of ““The Mental Performance Index: Ranking the Best Teams in Super Bowl History”“and you might be surprised to learn that this book is not only about football and sports psychology. When I wrote this book, I wanted to do something similar to what I did in my first book “Smart Tennis: How to Play and Win the Mental Game,” and that is to give the reader something to take home and use to better their life.… Read the rest
Miami Herald – Sept 20, 2002 – Greg Cote – To hear the mind games attached to the renewal of the NFL’s most psychological rivalry here Sunday, you’d think the benches on each sideline might be replaced by Naugahyde couches. See the Dolphins and Jets staring at playcharts?… Read the rest
ESPN The Magazine – November 3, 2008 – Answer Guy – Why do college sports have polls? J.B. Morris, college football editor, ESPN The Magazine: They do rankings so people will watch the early-season games. It’s marketing, Guy. In football? What’s next?… Read the rest
