PARENTING: Dealing with Abusive Coaches
by Miguel Humara, Ph.D.
Last year I went to watch my cousin's 13 year-old boy play for the championship of his soccer league. Tom's a...
FEATURE: How Can I Help?
by Miguel Humara, Ph.D.
As a sport psychologist, I am frequently approached by coaches, athletes and parents who ask about the types of services that...
MOTIVATION: The Good Ol’ Days, or How I Lost My Front Teeth
By Wayne Dominowski
Forty years ago, we were issued single bar facemasks. Even so, as a lineman, the line coach called me...
Weigth Management and Athletics
by Paul Schienberg, Ph.D.
There was Refrigerator Perry, defensive tackle, for the football Chicago Bears. Why the nickname? He weighed well over three hundred...
Parenting: Girls II – Training Their Minds and Bodies
By Paul Schienberg, PhD
In Part I of this series, many benefits of girls participation in sports were described: greater sense of self develops when...
Youth and School Sports – There Is A Choice
by Mitch Lyons
If you are involved in organized youth or school sport in any capacity, you have one of two choices that you can...
SWIMMING: The Heat Sheet – An Autobiography
by Allan Kopel
Hello. I am a heat sheet and I want to tell you a little bit about myself. Depending on the number of...
Stop Enabling and Help Athletes Abusing Substances
by Paul Schienberg, Ph.D. and Miguel Humara, Ph.D.
The use of drugs and alcohol by professional athletes has become an all too common occurrence. A...
MOTIVATION: Making It
by Wayne Dominowski
Who would have thought I'd make it? Forty-plus years ago when I graduated from high school I ranked 170 out of 177....
Goal Setting: Motivation In Training For Skydiving –
by Vic Napier & Paul Schienberg, Ph.D.
The general public often thinks of skydiving as a “stunt” performed by “dare devils”...