An excerpt - by Blaine McKenna - from Chapter 8 of: * It’s not easy moving to a place where you don’t understand the culture, language, or local game. It’s no surprise that coaches who move abroad often fail. We’ve all seen it over the years with a high turnover…
Taken from The Art of Tennis II: An Exploration of Planet Tennis Click to Learn More! That Stefanos Tsitsipas’ favourite surface is grass proves just how far he has come. His clay court exploits earlier in the season, and his now increasingly impressive results in the early stages of the…
Taken from The Art of Tennis II: An Exploration of Planet Tennis Click to Learn More! Markéta Vondroušová in her stellar Grand Slam breakthrough, demolishes Anastasia Sevastova on Court Suzanne Lenglen [French Open 2019] to the point of sending her to another court, even another planet. Vondroušová wins so comprehensively,…
Taken from The Art of Tennis II: An Exploration of Planet Tennis Click to Learn More! If the attempted Sunshine double (Indian Wells and Miami Masters titles) and what preceded it in 2019 has proven anything – already documented time and again over recent years – it is that Roger…
Chapter 2 from Building A Successful High School Sports Program Why Not Build a Program? As coaches, we often take over teams not knowing whether we’ll be there next season or two years from now. That is the nature of our profession; the volatility of the coaching environment, better opportunities,…
Thursday, March 8, 2018 M6 Services, Wolverhampton. I am crossing the pedestrian bridge from northbound to southbound, where ten minutes from now, I am going to ask one of the biggest personalities to ever put on a football shirt in the history of the game, whether he will join Matabeleland…
On the opening night of the Champions League group stages, in September 2012, as Manchester City were beaten by Real Madrid in the final moments at the Bernabau, thanks to Ronaldo’s late goal, and Real manager Jose Mourinho leapt from the dugout and slid across the turf in one of…
* While Portugal's 1974 Carnation Revolution certainly broadened Mourinho’s horizons, the family, as a whole, were to suffer somewhat and Félix [his Father] even considered uprooting to a club in Spain. For a centre-right family like the Mourinhos, it was a disconcerting period. Mourinho’s mother, Maria dos Santos, a popular…
From the top cycling book: * There was a time when almost everyone was just dying to take apart Fabian “Spartacus” Cancellara’s bicycle. A conspiracy theory, in 2010, claimed that the vigorous Swiss had won both the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix with the help of a motor hidden somewhere…