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From halfway around the world

This is point when realize you are truly bless

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Athletes from around the world

I really have a new found respect for inner city athletes around the world... We as athletes have the same universal struggles of going to next level.. We speak the same language of no pain no gain

T Minus and Counting

I am on my way to Frankfurt, Germany for the week in hopes to make good connections.. Then Sunday I will arrive in London to make more connections.. I will be to attending and visiting several corporations... Can't wait.

Parent's Coaches & Teachers

 

As always, share this if you think it is important. I think this is good information for all of us to think about once in awhile.

Not every situation is a “major” event. There seems to be a trend of “hanging on every word” a 7 year old says. There seems to be a sensitivity to every action of our athletes and coaches. Children will say “no I am not excited about going to practice” once in awhile. That doesn’t mean that there is anything major going on that needs to be investigated.
We seem to be leaning toward doing something if it isn’t quite right, today. A child talks her Mom into signing up for an 8 week session, makes one comment in the 4th week that she doesn’t like going anymore and the parent feels compelled to act, sometimes allowing the child to quit. The lesson the child just learned?
A coach or teacher who comes to a parent and mentions that little Suzie didn’t have a real good practice doesn’t mean that something major is going on. It is natural for an athlete or student to have a bad day once in awhile. No sweat, just natural. Now if she has gone 3 weeks with the same not so good behavior, then we need to take a look. The process of learning includes good days and bad. Days when something is learned and days when nothing is learned. The process of learning in youth sports includes striking out, falling off beam and missing a hurdle. All natural when dealing with children.
Maybe we all need to “chill” a little bit more. A skinned knee doesn’t mean a 911 call. A bad competition doesn’t mean the coach has “lost” their ability to coach. An umpire blowing a call at second base doesn’t mean that they have it in for your team. These are natural happenings. Minor, not major.
A child becomes a prepared, well adjusted young adult by experiencing about 2 million (my estimate) situations as they grow. There are very few “major” situations within those 2 million. They are all small steps that we experience, learn from and then move on. If we get overly sensitive to every step in the development of your child/athlete we will go crazy. The stress level will be unbearable. We will be looking over the shoulder of everyone who spends 5 minutes with our precious, easily broken child.
I believe that most children are very resilient with a strong shell. I also believe that it is possible to make that shell thinner and thinner if the adults in their lives treat every situation as a “major” event. The kids are watching us. They are learning how we, as adults, handle the every day situations that arise. One math test in 6th grade isn’t going to affect their potential for a college scholarship. Making an out happens more often in a baseball game than getting a hit.
Raising a child is about an 18 year adventure. A series of small, learning events and activities that will shape your child. Enjoy the ride rather than stressing so much about every step. The coaches and teachers helping your family will do a much better job if they don’t have a group of stressed out parents watching every minute of every practice. The less drama we have in the incredible world of youth sports the better. Less stress helps make a great learning “lab” for the development of our kids and athletes. Less stress makes it more fun for the adults too

Here's to us...

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Albert Einstein

CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Canadian Football League: Better Than the NFL?

The biggest single difference between CFL ball and NFL ball is three downs versus four.
With fewer downs to make your 10 yards, more offensive aggression is necessary, which usually means more passing and a lot less settling for plays that might only get you a couple yards.
Plays running out of the shotgun are far more common as a result, pass patterns full of eligible receivers are encouraged, and when you run the ball, you need to have a play set up that is designed to get you half the distance to the first down marker.
Going for it on third and short is also far more common. Going two and out is no way to win, so you need to take a shot at it if the odds work. CFL rules require the defense to set up a yard off the line of scrimmage—that extra yard of space between the offensive and defensive lines also means that there's really no excuse for not getting your first down on a QB keeper, so teams tend to go for it.
The most utterly boring play in the NFL is a punt followed by a fair catch.
With a situation that lame, where no play is actually made by the receiving team, wouldn't it be easier for them to just request a ball placement 40 yards from the line of scrimmage and be done with it?
There's none of this sissy stuff in the CFL.
When a punt is made, the receiving team is obliged to make a play. The kicking team must give the kick returner five yards or suffer a "no yards" penalty, but once the ball hits the receiver's hands, all bets are off, so he better be ready to start running.
More return attempts equals more opportunities for big plays equals more excitement.

Another New York Athlete that "Started From The Bottom" and arrived in the NBA Championship Finals

As Danny Green continues to hit big shots for the Spurs in the NBA Finals, it's hard to believe that the St. Mary's of Manhasset graduate was cut twice by the Spurs and Greg Popovich before earning a starting role.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/north-babylon-green-spur-moment-article-1.1366966#ixzz2VnT6UITP

Nassau Community College

Nassau Community College offers the prospective student-athlete the opportunity to develop both academically and athletically. Our outstanding coaching staffs and student support services strives toward assisting the student-athlete in reaching their full potential both in the classroom and on the playing field. Many of our student-athletes have earned scholarships and have gone onto prominence at senior colleges and universities, as well as in professional sports.
In addition, to having a reputation for academic excellence, the Nassau Community College athletics teams are nationally recognized for their dominance and success. Nassau Community College has over twenty Intercollegiate athletic teams (men's and women's combined) as well as a cheerleading and dance teams. Nassau Community College competes in the Region XV Conference as a member of the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA).

WORLD-CLASS ATHLETIC FACILITIES

Nassau Community College’s indoor/outdoor facilities are among the finest in the Northeast U.S. and have welcomed national and international events such as the U.S. National Volleyball Championships, the International Games for the Disabled, the Russian-American Wrestling Competition and the Goodwill Games.

Athletics
For indoor events the 192,000 square-foot George B. Costigan Physical Education Complex offers a four-lane indoor track, 1,800-seat multi-purpose gymnasium with three full basketball courts, 19,000-square-foot weight room and facilities for badminton, basketball, boxing, cheerleading, dance, fencing, gymnastics, judo, table tennis, Tae Kwon Do and team handball. The Fieldhouse provides 28,800 square-foot rubber (tartan) floor with a 30-foot ceiling and seating for 400. The complex also contains an eight-lane 4-foot deep lap pool along with a 13-foot deep diving pool.

For outdoor events the Mitchel Athletic Complex contains a 6,000 seat stadium that can be expanded to 9,000 for watching competitive athletes on the nine-lane 400-meter synthetic track with a regulation-sized multi-sport turf field suitable for football, soccer and lacrosse. The complex offers four regulation-sized grass softball fields with lights, an electronic scoreboard, a training room a locker rooms. In addition to NCC, the facilities are used for local high school championships and international competitions.

Control Your Life.... Dont let it control you.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Believe

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

The Here & Now

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.