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Coaching Legend Falls short of his Century

American Basketball Coaching Legend John Wooden passed away on 4th June 2010, aged 99. Between the years of 1967 and 1973, John Wooden coached UCLA to 7 NCAA Mens Basketball Championship consecutive titles. No other team had won a total of 4 NCAA Championships, let alone consecutively. Coach Wooden led his UCLA Basketball team to [...]

Successful (Non) Interventions

The development of sporting excellence has consumed my thinking, and the majority of my physical activity since I was a small boy. The journey has been challenging, inspirational, contained moments as well as periods of despair, and created an unhealthy self-obsession at times. If anyone believes that a life in sport is romantic or an [...]