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Sports & Business: The Importance of Coaching – Part 2

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As I mentioned in the first post of the series, , I have played sports my entire life, and during all of those years my coaches have ranged from superb to good to okay to really bad. I suppose much of my early years coaches were a reflection of the 70’s, the very beginning of Title IX. As a Title IX beneficiary I had the “same” opportunities as the boys to play sports in school. But, that’s where the comparison of equality stopped. Mostly from elementary school to my sophomore year of high school girls sports were coached by those […]

Karen Loomis Early Years Basketball Photo

Sports & Business: Know the Rules of the Game – Part 1

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I’ve played sports my entire life starting with recess on the playground to organized sports K-12 to intercollegiate volleyball. During my college years and thereafter, I had an 18 year career in the fitness industry. Oh, and let’s not forget the “way too old to still be playing leagues”. Every game I’ve played, every practice I’ve endured (with all sorts of coaches), every teammate I’ve had, and every student I’ve inspired to practice a fit life has prepared me for the business world. These sports and fitness governing truths I’ve learned have been applied to running my own business (on […]

Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports, Arts & Business

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Leveling the Playing Field Over the last several years we’ve been inundated with stories of alleged use of Performance-Enhancing-Drugs (PEDs), from steroids to Human Growth Hormones and others. The most recent names linked to steroid use and actual legal action include Rogers Clemens and Barry Bonds, but let’s not forget about Lance Armstrong’s truly amazing come-back from cancer to capture yet another Tour de France. What about Alex Rodriguez, Mark McGwire or Sammy Sosa? Baseball’s not the only sport supposedly tainted by PEDs, how about track and field’s line-up of athletes who’ve been stripped of Olympic medals, suspended or banned […]