Virginia’s Monica Wright

The Cavalier Daily shares thoughts on Monica Wright.

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Tony Bennett Article

Coach Starkey at LSU shares a really good article from the Washington Post on Coach Tony Bennett.  If you are not following Coach Starkey on Twitter, do it… always good stuff.

I’ve only been to a couple Virginia Men’s games and a practice, but judging from what I’ve seen… all of this is 100% true.

Coach Bennett & Family

Even going back to listening to him at his press conference, the guy is who he is… genuine, nice, incredibly sincere, while demanding what he believes in – what he is teaching.  He speaks of the process of being successful and it is not limited to the court.  His process is about being a good person, a successful person with how you conduct yourself, how you approach practice, approach school, approach your personal life.  All of it correlates to being a winner and plays a roll in winning.

“The process” is working… a 75-60 win at North Carolina is a gigantic win.  The game isn’t on ESPN360.com, but should be.  If you can, find it and watch it.  The defense is spectacular… I want to know what “The Roar” is…  The All-Time record in the UNC – Virginia series?… 124-48 UNC, 63-5 UNC in Chapel Hill… opps, 63-6 now.  1-0 during the Tony Bennett era.

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Loyola’s Alisha Mosley

What a shell we live in sometimes.  You see other coaches on the road, you chat, laugh, text…. then we all return to our own campus and you never know what goes on, what happens.

Story from The Women’s Basketball News Server

Until I spoke to Joe Logan a couple of weeks back I never knew.  Everyone is swamped this time of year. We think we are busy and trying to get ready for the next game.  Alisha Mosley’s next game was fighting for her life.  Amazingly, she won! At first she wasn’t supposed to… but she won!  Alisha Mosley’s story is nothing short of amazing.  Read it.  Check in with Joe, Abby or Gizz.  Keep them in your prayers.

Loyola Women's Basketball

The simple fact that this team is still in the thick of things in the MAAC and right around .500 is amazing.  Forget about the fact that this staff is down a member… less “man-hours” for scouting reports, film work, player workouts, practice, player relations.  (Not to mention recruiting)   Think about the emotional drain on the players themselves, Joe and his staff.  Good news or bad, everyday there is a full range of emotions for players and coaches to work through.  This group of players and coaches is to be applauded for how they have persevered and worked their way through this, found a way to keep the ship floating.

Keep fighting Mos… can’t wait to see you back in the gym.

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News to Lead By. Need Some New Ideas?

News to Lead By. Need Some New Ideas?

To stir up some innovative thinking as we enter 2010, take a look at the following articles and posts:

I have not yet been through all of them, but wanted to share.  As I work through them and adapt some of the concepts for basketball coaches/players I will add to this post.

• “The advantage goes to those who can outimagine and outcreate their competitors,” writes Bill Breen in a 2007 Fast Company article, The Business of Design. Breen interviewed Roger Martin, dean of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. Martin’s book, Opposable Mind: Winning Through Integrative Thinking, came out in 2008.
• More recently on FastCompany.com: The Most Creative People in Business: Top 25 and Eight Ways to Kill an Idea. Don’t Do It! By Cliff Kuang.
• The Decline of Western Innovation on Newsweek.com by Daniel McGinn.
• Can design change the world? An interview on CNN.com with Warren Berger, author of “Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Your Life and Maybe Even the World.”
• How Do Innovators Think? In a question-and-answer session with Harvard Business Review contributing editor Bronwyn Fryer, Professors Jeff Dyer of Brigham Young University and Hal Gregersen of Insead explain how “Innovators’ DNA” works.
• The Innovator’s Vulnerability. Self-confidence, ambition and a thick skin are the obvious characteristics of would-be innovators. Also necessary? A sense of vulnerability, by Saul Kaplan on BusinessWeek.com
• Redesigning Leadership, a Harvard Business column on leadership and design by John Maeda and Becky Bermont of the Rhode Island School of Design.
• Resonance: a short film about getting to the right idea. Continuum strategists how to guide the development of experiences and products that matter to people and keep them coming back for more.

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Sportsmanship

This actually happened April 26, 2008 in a women’s softball game between Western Oregon College and Central Washington University….

Thank you ladies.  Keep Sportsmanship alive… do what is RIGHT, not what is EASY.

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