Monthly Archive for August, 2011

Coach Peter Fewing wins third national title

Published on August 22, 2011 in Book and Newsletter. 0 Comments

coaching-cover_v3_frontAs reported in Pumas beat Heat to claim PDL Championship by Jeff Graham

BREMERTON — Kitsap Pumas coach Peter Fewing knew exactly what the words “Charlie Mike” meant.

They were delivered by Dr. Herbie Hoffman — Fewing’s former assistant coach at Seattle University — after the Pumas lost to the Seattle Sounders in Open Cup play.

“It means continue mission,” Fewing said. “The mission was to win this thing today.”

Mission accomplished, coach.

Read more: http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2011/aug/06/kitsap-pumas-down-heat-win-pdl-championship/#ixzz1ViUgAIqO

Coaching Principles for the Development of Championship Teams: On and Beyond the Pitch by Herbert (Herbie) Louis Hoffman and Peter R.J. Fewing is available as part of the Sport and Society series.


At Ohio State, Football Scandal Rattles a Reformer

Published on August 19, 2011 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

By Greg Bishop, The New York Times

For E. Gordon Gee, the athletic scandal that humbled the mighty Ohio State football program overshadowed an otherwise normal, productive January, a month bookended by the Buckeyes’ Sugar Bowl victory and a business trip overseas. Still, Gee boarded the flight home from China firmly behind his football coach.

He had no idea what awaited him — the most difficult stretch, he would later say, in three decades spent running some of the country’s largest, most prestigious universities.

On a layover in Chicago, Gee settled into the American Airlines Admirals Club and called his office to check in. Herb Asher, counselor to the president, dispensed with the usual pleasantries. “You won’t be happy with this,” Asher started. Then he delivered the bad news.

The football program Gee often referred to as the “university’s budget running up and down the field” would soon be under N.C.A.A. investigation for apparent rules violations that included players selling memorabilia for cash and tattoos. Worse yet, e-mails that shattered Coach Jim Tressel’s earlier explanation of ignorance had been uncovered in Gee’s absence.

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Photo: David Maxwell for The New York Times

London Aquatics Centre 2012 by Zaha Hadid

Published on August 15, 2011 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

From Dezeen Magazine

The new London Aquatics Centre, designed by Zaha Hadid, photographed by Hufton + Crow

Six curved concrete diving boards stick out like tongues across one pool at the end of the main hall, beneath an undulating wave-like roof.

The competition pool is also located in this hall, which will seat 17,500 spectators during the games.

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The Games the Nazis Played

Published on August 11, 2011 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

By David Clay Large, The New York Times

FEW Olympics are as famous as the 1936 Berlin Games, whose 75th anniversary falls this month. The publicity that accompanied the competition, held under the watchful eye of Adolf Hitler, supposedly tamed the Nazi regime, if only temporarily — a story that has since justified awarding the Games to places like Soviet Moscow, Beijing and Sochi, Russia, host of the 2014 Winter Olympics.

But much of that story is myth. Indeed, the Olympics gave the Nazis a lesson in how to hide their vicious racism and anti-Semitism, and should offer today’s International Olympic Committee a cautionary tale when considering the location of future events.

When the committee awarded the Olympics to Berlin in 1931, Hitler was not yet in power. But by 1936 there was little question that anti-Semitism and racism lay at the heart of the Nazi ideology: the so-called Nuremberg Laws, which codified policies to isolate Jews and other minorities from German life, had been approved the year before.

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Illustration by Lulu Wolf; Photographs from Times Wide World Photos; Image Courtesy of the New York Times

Paralympic Legacies edited by David Legg and Keith Gilbert

Published on August 6, 2011 in Book and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Paralympic Legacies edited by David Legg and Keith Gilbert is now available as part of the  Sport and Society series.

Legacy remains one of the most important issues relating to multisport mega-events across the globe and it could be argued that the development of legacy is one of the most urgent imperatives in elite sport. In this regard the Paralympics is no exception to the quest for long term legacy; however, little in the way of documentation appears to be forthcoming from the International Paralympic community in this regard. This book reviews the concept of legacy across previous Paralympic Games by providing a series of chapters under the headings of ‘The Paralympic Legacy Debate’, ‘Paralympic City Legacies’, ‘Emerging Issues of Paralympic Legacy’ and ‘Reconceptualising Paralympic Legacies’. The issues arising are discussed in terms of a meta-analysis of the author’s work and offer interesting ideas which if taken up by the International Paralympic Committee, International Olympic Committee, Bid Committees, OCOG’s and major sports could change the face of Paralympic legacy towards the positive forever.

Dr. Keith Gilbert is a Professor and Director of the Centre for Disability, Sport and Health in the School of Health, Sport and Bioscience at the University of East London, London, United Kingdom.

Dr. David Legg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Education and Recreation Studies at Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada.

Sustainability and Sport

Published on August 2, 2011 in Book, Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Sustainability and Sport edited by Jill Savery and Keith Gilbert is now available as part of the  Sport and Society series.

Sustainability and Sport is a synthesis of contemporary insights and expertise offered from a novel collection of thirty-four practitioners and academics in the field, who continue to play key roles in the expansion of sustainable solutions for major sport events, sport organizations and society. This seminal book details the most important insights from these experts in making sport more sustainable, and in using sport to promote sustainability. It is a guide for good practice within the sports industry, as well as a research and knowledge exchange guide for the burgeoning field of sport and sustainability. Industry pioneers, event managers, athletes, global sport event sponsors, academics, sport organizations, NGOs, international organizations, business strategists, event bid teams, technical consultants, and others working in this emerging discipline offer their perspectives to share and create knowledge. A significant section of the book is devoted to fostering sustainability at the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, including perspectives on event management, sustainable development and urban regeneration, event legacies, corporate sponsorship activation, and maximizing engagement with sport event audiences.

Jill Savery is a sustainability advisor and an Olympic gold medalist with a Master’s Degree in Environmental Management from Yale University.

Dr. Keith Gilbert is a Professor and Director of the Centre for Disability, Sport and Health in the School of Health, Sport and Bioscience at the University of East London, London, United Kingdom.