When Bulat Utemuratov joined the Kazakhstan Tennis Federation, this organization was stagnant. The tennis players did not show impressive results and the officials did not know how to improve the current situation. Utemuratov brought to KTF a modern approach to setting and achieving goals that is used in business. Setting multifaceted goals had to fundamentally change the slow tide of tennis life in Kazakhstan.

Having headed the Federation in 2007, Bulat Utemuratov expressed the long-term plans approved by the International Tennis Federation. The main one was to turn tennis into a mass sport. For this, it was necessary to work in three directions together: develop an infrastructure, train and support trainers, participate in competitions. They began translating plans into action without delay.

On every tennis court in the country

In 2006, there were 60 courts in four regions of Kazakhstan. The courts did not meet the requirements of international standards and did not meet the basic needs of athletes. Under the leadership of Utemuratov, the construction of courts began in all centers of the country’s provinces. Currently, the courts number almost 250. Modern tennis centers have been built in each of the 15 regions of Kazakhstan. These are facilities that meet all the requirements of the sports infrastructure; They can host both national and global competitions.

The recently opened “Ace” tennis center in Almaty has 4 indoor and 6 outdoor courts with a total area of ​​8,100 square meters with a “hard” coating. All courts have lighting that meets the requirements and standards of international television broadcasts. The center can host ATP Challenger tournaments in the summer. The amount of investments in the project, including construction, equipment and landscaping, exceeded 5 million dollars.

Bulat Utemuratov believes that tennis infrastructure should be easily accessible and available on request, which is why courts are being built a short distance from densely populated places. So since the fee for training sessions is moderate, they now range from $ 18 to $ 30 per month for 12 sessions in the regions to $ 45 in the capital. The number of people willing to play sports is growing geometrically: in 2007, only about 500 people participated in lawn tennis, today, more than 6000.

Programs for children as a basis for popularizing the sport

In his role as director of the Kazakhstan Tennis Federation, Bulat Utemuratov pays special attention to children’s sports. The “Tennis under 10 years” program is a social project aimed at training a new generation of athletes capable of defending the country’s honor in the best world tournaments. The main idea of ​​the program is to start the training process as soon as possible. It is for this reason that the program began to operate in kindergartens in different regions of Kazakhstan. “Tennis under 10” units 40 schools and 24 preschool institutions. The “Tennis for Under 10s” program is included in the ITF International Youth Tennis Initiative program for children under 12 playing tennis. Bulat Utemuratov fully funded this project and competitions for the next 3 years.

The second large-scale program for children is the School Tennis Initiative. The project was launched in 2008. Its aim is to increase the number of tennis players across the country by introducing tennis for 4-6 year olds in preschool and 6-10 year olds in schools through mini-tennis. Mini-tennis allows you to master the basics of the game on the court in a fun and entertaining way, using the game approach in training.

Team Kazakhstan Tennis Academy – champions foundry

The Team Kazakhstan project was launched by the Kazakhstan Tennis Federation in 2008. The field of its activity is the education of future participants of the national team in the Davis Cup and Federation Cup. Full funding is provided by the KTF. In September 2008, the first students and technical staff of the Admission Kazakhstan Team were sent to the Gorin Tennis Academy, USA, to improve their skills. In 2009, the Dutch expert Eric van Harpen was invited as head coach. That same year, one of the world’s leading experts, the Pole Michislav Boguslavsky, joined the project as head coach of youth body conditioning and general sports training. Since then, training camps have been held at Bruguera Tennis Academy (Barcelona, ​​Spain), Pro World Tennis Academy (Miami, USA), Gorin Tennis Academy (California, USA), Tennis Val Tennis Academy (Valencia, Spain).

Young athletes have already shown good results in international and national competitions. Among them, Gozal Ainitdinova, Dostanbek Tashbulatov, Timur Khabibullin.

Students of the Team Kazakhstan Academy won more than 80 international tournaments, including several Grand Prix. In 2017, the Kazakh team in the category “under 12 years old” became the Central Asian champion. Kazakh tennis player Gozal Aynitdinova is the Asian champion in the category “up to 14 years”. Representatives of the tennis youth of Kazakhstan regularly receive awards in Europe.

Victories, achievements, results

The Kazakh men’s team has repeatedly entered the quarterfinals of the prestigious Davis Cup tournament, beating such eminent teams as the Czech Republic (2011), Austria (2013), Belgium (2014), Italy (2015) and later to world champion Argentina in 2017 and returned to the World Group. In February 2018, a team of Kazakh tennis players defeated the Swiss team early and reached the quarter-finals of this prestigious tournament. At the Fed Cup, the Kazakh women’s team made the playoffs twice.

Approximately 40 international ITF, ITF Futures, ITF Juniors, ATF and ATP Challenger international tournaments are held in Kazakhstan each year. The biggest tournament in Kazakhstan is the President’s Cup. This tournament is part of the ATP Challenger series and the women’s tournament belongs to the ITF series. In addition, Kazakhstan repeatedly hosted the international Davis Cup and Federation Cup World Group tournaments.

Something really very memorable and something shocking happened at the 1986 NBA All Star Games Slam Dunk contest when a relatively short 5’7 “NBA player dominated all the other contestants with his high-flying dunks that they won the hearts of everyone there. Spud Webb was the smallest among the contestants who were over 6 feet tall, but all agreed that his dunk was the highlight of the competition and therefore , was awarded the first prize.

The contest got more interesting because Spud Webb was up against his Atlanta Hawks teammate Dominique Wilkins at the time. Wilkins was the winner of the dunk contest the year before, so he was the man to beat. The air was filled with excitement as Wilkins, aka Human Highlight Film, took on the short Webb.

But sadly, Webb was declared the winner of that night’s tournament. This was considered a great achievement and literally one for the books. Spud Webb set an all-time record for being the smallest NBA star to join and win the contest, beating out some really tremendous dunks.

Although Spud Webb is not well known to the current NBA fan base, videos of nearly every NBA star are available on many online video sharing sites. We can still look and see how the little NBA star of the Atlanta Hawks. Spud Webb’s winning dunk can be downloaded online for all to see. See how he defeated one of the all-time greats Dominique Wilkins.

Humble origins

Spud Webb realized early on that playing basketball was his path to a better life. Born into poverty, he had a great playing career at Wilmer-Hutchins High School, where he averaged 26 points.

During his early college years, he went to Midland College in Texas, where he demonstrated his scoring prowess in a finals game with Miami-Dade North of Florida. He finished that game with 36 points that had his name printed in an issue of Sports Illustrated. After that, he transferred to North Carolina State University.

Webb’s entry into the NBA was without fanfare and initially appeared to have been short-lived. He was selected in the fourth round by the Detroit Pistons, but was later removed from the list by the team. But the Atlanta Hawks saw their potential and invited him to try them. They liked what they saw and signed him for the 1985-1986 season. He played for the Hawks for 6 years until he moved to the Sacramento Kings in the 1991-1992 season. Spud ended his stint with the Kings in 1995 and later moved from one team to another, even once returning to Atlanta. He played his last NBA game as the Orlando Magic in 1998.

Spud Webb’s 10+ year professional basketball career was an astonishing success story of triumph over any physical limitation. He achieved his dreams by jumping higher than his competition that night in 1986 in the NBA Slam Dunk championship.

Currently working as a motivational speaker, Webb is now helping other people achieve what they believe cannot be done, just as he did in his wonderful athletic career.

Trading order picks in the draft can be an interesting conundrum for many fantasy football players. This short article describes what it means to trade selections, why people do it, and when it makes sense for them to do so. Of course, this only applies to the traditional snake eraser format.

Receiving your fantasy football draft pick is an exciting and sometimes terrifying time. Typically, the league commissioner will arrange for these selections to be determined prior to draft day so that teams thoroughly prepare for their first few rounds. Even if you get your pick a few minutes before the draft begins, a question will arise; Should I try changing my selection??

For those new to fantasy football, the draft pick is your position in the writing order. The order starts at 1 and each team takes turns choosing their first player according to the order of the draft. When the last person in the order chooses his player, he chooses again. The order then flows back to the player who chose first overall. This process is repeated. This is known as the classic snake eraser format. To provide clarity, our next example is a 10-team league. Overall selection number 1 will choose 1st, 20th, 21st, and so on.

The question remains, am I happy with this selection I received or do I want to try trading? All of this will signal the wishes of your core team. How to interpret: do you have a position that you want to put more emphasis on than others, or do you want to have a more balanced team? In some leagues, RB emphasizes the scoring setup, so you may want to focus on getting a strong group of running backs. In some leagues, the QB or WR are a very focused position. Before you get to draft day, start understanding the league scoring setup and come up with a game plan for how you want your main team to look.

Strong in corridors

This year it looks like the running back position is going to be highly coveted. This means that around 12 of the first 15 selections will be the best projected riders. Of that group, there are about 4 or 5 that are considered elite and players cannot be absent. If you want to insure one of those guys, you’ll need to have the 1-5 choose in the order. A second plan to gain an advantage with the runners will be to choose later in the order, such as 8-10. This will give you the ability to pick a solid (but not elite) runner in the first round and take another around the turn. This would give him a strong starting team in RB.

Strong on receiver

The first option this year could be to win an elite wide receiver in the first round and a solid running back on the order turn. This would mean he’s off to a balanced start and could make a lot of sense in some leagues. This plan could happen if you had a mid to late first-round pick, like choose 7-10. If you want to be super charged in the WR position, it is even possible to grab 2 of the elite receivers in your rounds 1 and 2. This will make your running back situation quite unstable, but you will be ready for WR.

Strong in QB

This year it’s safe to say that most leagues will put less emphasis on the QB position. This is because there are a lot of capable starting quarterbacks. If you’re determined to land one of the top 3 elite quarterbacks, plan for them to be available from the beginning to the end of the second round. No matter which first-round pick you get, chances are that at least one of the best will be available in the second round.

All in all, it depends on him coming prepared with his core strategy before the draft. If you are fully determined on a certain range of selections, then definitely try switching to the selection that will give you the desired team composition. Most of the time, it is easier to trade lower than higher. Below is a quick simulation guide on the type of equipment you might have depending on your first round selection.

Selections 1-4

1. Adrian Peterson (RB), Demarco Murray (RB), Percy Harvin (WR)
2. Arian Foster (RB), Larry Fitzgerald (WR), David Wilson (RB)
3. Jamaal Charles (RB), Darren Mcfadden (RB), Dwayne Bowe (WR)

Selections 5-7

1. Ray Rice (RB), Matt Forte (RB), Percy Harvin (WR)
2. LeSean McCoy (RB), Maurice Jones-Drew (RB), Reggie Wayne (WR)
3. Calvin Johnson (WR), Maurice Jones-Drew (RB), Ryan Mathews (RB)

Selections 8-10

1. Matt Forte (RB), LeSean McCoy (RB), Andre Johnson (WR)
2. Trent Richardson (RB), Alfred Morris (RB), Dwayne Bowe (WR)
3. AJ Green (WR), Julio Jones (WR), Demarco Murray (RB)

Deadline for player transfers in the English Premier League and that means only one thing: enter the silly season of the most famous league in all of world football.

As fans around the world endure three torturous summer months into the season finale, the only thing keeping them busy is the trickle of news about new signings and endless speculation about the signing of big stars by one team or another.

Would Brazilian sensation Ronaldinho join Manchester City’s wealthy megastars? Will Chelsea finally put Spanish forward Fernando Torres in their hands or will Liverpool keep their man? Amid the flurry of last-minute activity, the biggest news came from the most unlikely places.

However, this speculation generally comes to a head as the cutoff day approaches, which is August 31. This year was no different.

First, news of Robinho’s departure from Manchester City hit the airwaves. He went to AC Milan in a deal rumored to be worth around £ 22 million. A lot of money, but still below what Man City paid for it just two years ago! A simple statement on AC Milan’s official website said that “AC Milan announces that they have acquired Robinho on a permanent contract with Manchester City.” And that was it!

In a change of fortune, the former Santos player who had arrived in the Eastlands amid much fanfare and in quite dramatic fashion at the dawn of Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan’s reign at Manchester City on the day of the deadline. Transfer two years ago also left on the day of the transfer deadline just this once, most fans were probably happy to see the back of the talented game creator who never seemed to settle down in Eastlands for some reason. We continue! And City have bought many other players to replace him. In fact, by some estimates, they have spent about half of the total amount spent during this particular transfer window.

One thing is certain. This Premier League season will be as exciting as any season in the last ten years. Let the games begin!

How many of you have cried while making love or, on the other hand, witnessed the cry of your partner while making love? Then maybe you asked him why he was crying. Could he give you an answer? Ladies, did you even know where those tears came from?

In order for you to first understand why I was crying, we will have to explore the world of energy, better known as Energy Wellness. According to quantum physics, everything is made of energy. Even solid-looking objects are made of energy that is in constant motion moving at a very slow rate. Humans consume food to store and process energy. We exercise to circulate energy for fitness. Doctors use various biofeedback machines, such as X-rays, to understand certain human conditions that work through energy through electromagnetic frequencies.

The human body, when considering the physical systems (circulatory, digestive, muscular, etc.) and the subtle bodies (aura, chakras, nadis, etc.) is made up of more than 20 energy systems. These energy systems dictate the physical, emotional and spiritual health of an individual. When a person experiences trauma or emotional disturbance, the human body responds or reacts based on that person’s belief system. Emotions, if they are not transmuted into something higher or more positive, will lodge in any area of ​​the body since emotions carry a vibrational frequency equivalent to organs, glands, tissues or muscles.

In the case of the sexual reproductive organs, they house a particular energy center in the body known as the Svadhisthana chakra. Svadhisthana is Sanskrit and means “place of residence of the self”. Chakra means “spinning wheels of light”. We have various chakras (pronounced chuk-ruh) throughout our bodies that absorb energy from the planet and the universe, so with this one in particular it has everything to do with procreation, creativity, how we associate with the world, and our perspective on ourselves within the world. It is also associated with the element of water and is therefore related to our circulatory system, urine, menstruation, and tears.

Most women tend to put others before themselves. Woman’s dreams and aspirations are often left in the background or never pursued. The most profound statistics state that 1 in 6 women have been victims of an attempted rape or a complete rape and 1 in 3 are victims of domestic violence. In addition to that, many women suffer from endometriosis, cysts, fibroids, hysterectomies, and other reproductive problems that further demonstrate the imbalance of energies found within the walls of the uterus.

All of the above problems affect the esteem and image of women at the subconscious level. In events where emotions are high, intense, or extreme, the subconscious is programmed with the thought and emotion of that event. Emotional memory is stored in the brain’s limbic system and the emotional trigger (which causes a person to react rather than respond) is stored in the body’s cellular memory. There are various methods and techniques available to release negative thoughts and emotions associated with past events, but very few people put these methods and techniques into practice.

With sexual intimacy, it is a time when emotions are raised due to the display of passion and the stimulation of the main energy centers of the body (chakras). Because the energy was made to circulate throughout the body and not stop, some women experience a buildup of energy known as ORGASM. The orgasmic energy, with its procreative power, will push through those pent-up emotions as the energy itself has to release itself and because the woman is in a heightened state of consciousness and her subconscious is completely open and fully attuned to the innate wisdom of the body. , she starts making sounds. Sounds are the direct expression of one’s own body and with precision, she lulls into the key, releasing the vibratory imprint of past emotions (energy in motion) that has been stored within the walls of her uterus. Folks: this is truly sexual healing at its finest! When he reaches that point where he can no longer control facial expressions or body movements and he lets go and surrenders to Spirit (what? Did you think he was surrendering to you? No, you are just the vehicle through which the Spirit operates.), tears flow. On a scientific level, this means that the parasympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system has stimulated the lacrimal glands through neurotransmitters and receptors. The lacrimal glands are responsible for producing tears. So in a nutshell, your body basically told itself that it was time to release those emotions. The wisdom of your body knows and understands why and does exactly what it needs to, without our permission. We just keep up and let good love be.

The thing about emotional healing is that once you open up emotionally and shed your tears, you have to reprogram what you want to experience in that moment. The subconscious is completely open and all the energy channels of your body are ready to receive a replacement for the negative emotions that you have just released. You see, the truth of the matter is that energy is not really “released”, it just changes from one form to another. This is better known as transmutation. Sexual healing and the power of orgasm give you the opportunity to rewrite your life. It gives you the opportunity to see life from a different perspective. You can vocalize your new choice or internalize it and send that feeling throughout your body. Later that day, when you’re done making love, or if he’s been gone until the wee hours of the morning, the next day, take some time to reinforce your decision. This will help you, the woman, have a stronger and healthier relationship with you and your partner.

For men who are true passionate lovers and are not afraid to surrender to Divine Love and express themselves, all of the above applies to you as well. This is part of your Energetic Wellbeing and as such you also have the right to walk in your power.

In each and every football season there is something that drives me crazy. Seriously, this really bothers me.

When Notre Dame plays Stanford, I have to hear the announcers tell me that the Stanford Cardinal took the field. There are eleven players in any offensive unit, not just one player. Cardinal is singular. Cardinals is plural. Wouldn’t Cardinals make more sense in describing a unit of 11 individuals making their way onto the field?

I just do not get it. It literally drives me crazy every time I hear it. Was it the whole team that took the field or just one of them? And if so, which one?

Fortunately, wikipedia.org gives me a little idea why this is so. It still doesn’t make sense to me, but I’ll let you decide.

In 1892, after a great victory over Cal, Stanford adopted cardinal as its main color. Until 1972 they were known as the Indians. At that time a group of Indian students took a request to change their name as the current one was offensive to them.

The University listened and from 1972 to 1981 its official name was Cardinals.

The name was apparently never a reference to the bird just to color.

In 1981, the then present Stanford, who was overthinking the subject, declared that from then on he would be called the Stanford Cardinal in a singular way.

Why is this necessary? I think if I were a sportscaster assigned to cover one of their games, I would have to take a position. I would let the powers of the being know that it will be my intention that when I refer to a person on the team, in fact, I will refer to him as a Cardinal, but when I refer to a group of players I will refer to them as the Cardinals. Just doing the opposite is silly and obviously I don’t have time for a lot of nonsense.

Each adult must adhere to his own personal belief system or his life will be without honor.

Unfortunately, this investigation led me to another big problem with the Stanford team name and mascot.

They don’t have a pet. Why not?

Sometimes your logo will have a tree in the middle. Other times it’s just a big “S”. The Stanford Tree is actually a member of the band who is disguised as, well, what else, a tree. This tree is actually based on a particular tree that has a name, El Palo Alto, which is a redwood in Palo Alto.

Although many people consider the “tree” their pet, it is not officially their pet.

Stanford is a highly respected university and you have to be smart to attend. You would think that a group of very intelligent people would not have so much trouble naming their sports team or choosing a mascot.

Maybe now I think differently.

I think using a tree would be a good thing if you have an exceptionally tough defense and want to emphasize its immobility.

It doesn’t work that well on the offensive side of things. To say that the running back was as fast as a tree, or that a wide receiver went across the field like a tree, just doesn’t sound right.

Shaquille O’Neal is more often known simply as ‘Shaq’, the basketball player who is famous throughout the world and one of the most recognized players in the United States. He is well known for his large size and people often ask what his shoe size is.

Shaquille O’Neal has a shoe size of 22 but is 7 feet 1 inch tall and 325 pounds, he is a perfect basketball player. Even many of the other popular basketball players in the world are relatively overshadowed by him.

Shaquille O’Neal’s shoe size is considered by some to be as large as 23, but it is generally considered to be 22. He currently plays for the team known as the Cleveland Cavaliers, although he has played for several teams during the impressive stretch of his career. . .

He has earned a number of accomplishments throughout his long career and currently earns a $ 21 million salary with the Cleveland Cavaliers. He also appeared with his old team, the Los Angeles Lakers, with which he won three NBA world championship awards, at the White House alongside George Bush.

His other and most recent NBA world championship award occurred in 2006 when he played for the Miami Heat team.

Shaquille O’Neal has also been involved in various other ventures throughout his career. He also likes rap music and has released five studio albums plus a compilation album. Additionally, he has appeared on various reality shows and various other shows on television. He has also dabbled in the world of martial arts and has even been involved in law enforcement. He also reportedly asked for a role in the hit movie X-Men, but was apparently turned down. His image also appears on the covers of numerous basketball video games.

This family quote has haunted me through all my years of training and I suspect that I am not alone. In case you are reading this and have no idea, where this quote came from, let me give you a bit of information. The saying “Winning isn’t everything … it’s the only thing” has been attributed for more than 45 years to the legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers football team, the man named after the Super Bowl trophy; the great Vince Lombardi. News flash: never said; what he did say is that “winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” The misquote comes from a Hollywood production starring John Wayne and Donna Reed titled “Trouble Along the Way” (Warner Brothers 1953) which was filmed in black and white and was a story in which Wayne plays a coach and a single father with a daughter. at a private Catholic university and Donna Reed a child-minded social worker. In the movie, a game is played while Donna Reed and the girl are in the stands watching a scene. The scene switches between shots of the Duke walking the sideline barking plays and firing up his team, then a couple of priests waving the school colors and finally Donna Reed and the girl who appears to be about 10-12 years old. old. Donna Reed is commenting to the girl about how she hopes the boys are enjoying the game and giving everything or something like that, when the girl responds with the line … “well, you know what father (so-and-so) always says. .. “Winning is not everything, it is the only thing”. This phrase comes from a Hollywood production of the mouth of a fictional character of 10 years. Somehow, this phrase was attributed to Vince Lombardi (some say due to his religious affiliation with the Catholic Church) and spent the rest of his life until his last days trying to correct that mistake with sports commentators and writers.

I suspect, like many others, that this type of thinking, that winning is the only thing, has dominated the way many coaches and parents view sports competition, and when our children, our school team or we are not winning at all the competencies. then there must be something wrong. Is it possible that something more is being gained that at the moment neither I, the father nor I, the coach, can grasp in my moment of temporary setback? It is the notion of winning all the time that is so ingrained in our society that we do all kinds of things, even ignoring our higher sense of ourselves to achieve it. Sometimes we are willing to do “whatever it takes” even if it means not doing the right thing. Confused yet? Of course it is because, sadly, once we eliminate the “winning is everything” mentality, we are forced to look elsewhere for the true purpose of these competitions. By looking, the answer I have discovered is not in my head. It is actually found in the heart with a capital H, and I’ll get back to that in a minute.

If you look at winning and losing as a whole, the fact is that every time you step on a field your chances are 50/50. This is a simple truth, the world as we can perceive it, is made up of a set of opposites, hot vs. cold, up vs. down, win vs. lose, etc. everything in creation is a world of duality. In fact, you cannot experience one without the other. Imagine living alone with daylight? Just darkness? One complements the other. Without pain, this is not joy. Without an opponent, we cannot play the game. So how do we operate in this world of duality? Also, where do we put our attention to be successful instead of failing? Also, more specifically, how do we participate in competitive sports? The answer is in our higher sense of ourselves. There is a large part of us that knows how to take all of this duality and see it for what it is and what it is not. We are much more than winners or losers in this game! In fact, we are the creators of our own destinies. And depending on how we notice and observe the workings of our own thoughts and the feelings they create, we can see the good in both winning and losing. We can experience both the good and the bad of winning and losing and not forgetting our true selves. This is not a new concept, the eastern forms of competition have been teaching it for thousands of years; they even refer to their sports as “arts” as in martial arts. The objectives of which are not to annihilate or destroy opponents, but to honor, respect and love them. The realization that without an opponent the artist has no way of demonstrating the skills he has mastered. The competition is based on both opponents showing their best, giving 100% and enjoying the opportunity to compete. It is not in winning or losing, but in competing that the athlete / artist can demonstrate their level of mastery. Vince Lombardi’s correction of the famous misstatement “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” It has a very subtle but powerful distinction of winning is the only thing. That distinction lies in the power of our attention and intention. Why participate in an activity unless you do your best? Our intention should always be to do our best to win or succeed, however, if on a given day we do not get the result that we would prefer, we should not take it personally. We do our best, learn from our mistakes, and just get better as we grow. I have a personal motto that goes like this: “Make it personal, don’t take it personal.” What I mean by that is that I want to do the best I can, I want it personally to be my business to give all I can, while at the same time, I remember that whether I succeed or fail, it is not a problem. true reflection of who I really am, it is only the result of the best of my efforts at that time.

I can remember several times in my coaching career and in my career as a parent when my son and I learned lessons during his days as a peewee flag football player. One season, he was drafted by a team that failed to win a game. He would complain on our trips home and at one point he told me that he didn’t want to play anymore. I understood his pain, having been there as a coach and player, but I also knew that it would be valuable to continue and fulfill what he had committed to do. After much discussion and persuasion on my part, he agreed to finish the season and just do his best no matter what the score was in a given match. His team never won a single game in the regular season, but lo and behold, a little miracle happened. When it was time for the playoffs, his team was able to triumph in the two biggest games of the year. That’s right; they won the semifinal and championship games. I took the opportunity to point out to my son that if he had resigned, he would have missed the opportunity to be a champion. We also discuss how you never really know how things might turn out if you keep your commitments and your word and just do your best.

Earlier I mentioned a Hollywood movie that produced a very dangerous and unrealistic concept. Hollywood has also produced some amazing and wonderful stories to inspire us as well. I recently saw “Friday Night Lights” another movie about soccer. This is the highly competitive game of Texas high school football. The best part was the locker room scene at halftime of the “big game” when coach Gary Gaines starts talking about “Being perfect”, the team’s context for the season. It begins by telling the players to forget what’s on the scoreboard, to forget about winning, and to get back on the field to do their best, to give their all for each other, and to do it with love. in the heart. and a feeling of joy at playing. He tells them how much he loves each of them and shows them what he hopes they have learned … If they play the game to the best of their ability, and for the right reasons, the final score is not their reward; the feeling with which they will be. We are all looking for the answer, we find it in our Heart with a capital H for this real answer. In football or in the game of life, if we play our best, giving our best and loving what we do, there will only be winners and champions no matter what the scoreboard says. Playing the game for all the right reasons is the key.

Finding and understanding the right reasons to compete was and is the biggest challenge I face on a daily basis, no matter the task. I live in this world of duality and by nature; I prefer only half of what constitutes my perception of reality. I just want to win, I just want happiness, etc. The problem is that the more attached I am to what I want, the more attached also to its opposites. Reality is a double-edged sword. The answer to this riddle is not to be attached, but to play the game with the heart and not with the head. You see, it is your head and your ego that see and experience duality and it is your head that creates the preferences based on all the information that it has collected during a lifetime of life in this world of opposites. It is your head that will take winning and losing personally; your heart, on the other hand, will go with the flow feeling the joy and love of simply playing the game. It is love that brings you back to the game, over and over again, whether you are winning or losing. In other words, love isn’t everything … it’s the only thing. Winning is a happy by-product.

A few years ago, while working as an assistant coach at the high school level; I was listening to our head coach talking to players at halftime of a college basketball game. He told them that to be winners they would have to work hard, play smart, have fun, and do it together. I found it to be very good advice. And as I listened to him talk about these ideas, I realized that before anyone wanted to commit to all the hard work it takes to win, something else would also have to be present. The reason we become true winners and champions in sports and in life is mainly that, in addition to committing to hard work, smart play, fun, etc. – we have to truly love what we are doing.

If we love what we’re doing, it’s so much easier to push yourself, bounce back from losses, and show up to play the game over and over again. It turns out that when you examine the mindset and heart of true champions (whether in sports or in life), what you see and hear from them is how much they love it. Whatever the “it” is for them. All great champions have this as the basis for participating in their chosen endeavors. All great people have learned to play the game from the heart and simply use their heads as a compass, a tool to navigate to success. This is the most valuable lesson that sport and competition have taught me. This is the most valuable lesson we can teach our young athletes. “Winning is not everything, it is loving what you do that means everything.”

Boxing has always managed to attract a wide fan base from a wide section of society, and people are willing to spend a great deal of money to see advice between famous names. The upcoming Pacquiao vs. Mayweather fight, scheduled for May 2 at one of Las Vegas’ premium sports and entertainment venues, the MGM Grand Garden Arena, is billed as the fight of the century. Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, nicknamed Pac-Man and Money respectively, couldn’t be more different as individuals, but they are both considered the best fighters of these times. These welterweight boxers are expected to fill the 16,800 capacity arena at hefty prices, making it boxing’s greatest gate of all time.

There has been a lot of interest in this showdown and sports fans have waited more than 6 years for the representatives of the two boxers to finish the negotiations. The $ 250 million purse will be split 60:40 between these two fighters and Mayweather will take the lion’s share. In fact, the MGM Grand Las Vegas hotel is sold out on the date of the event due to the enormous interest in the event.

Tickets for this fight are not yet available for sale, but are expected to be available from $ 1000 per seat and up, depending on the seat. However, there are many tickets available on the secondary market. Many tickets are in the possession of the event promoters as well as the sponsors, and it goes without saying that there is immense demand from fans who want to be assured of a good seat. In fact, by certain estimates, tickets cost an average of around $ 9,000. The demand for tickets to the event is so high that even celebrities might have to shell out cash instead of getting them for free!

You have to be very careful where you buy these tickets because there are likely to be many counterfeits. Therefore, one has to do a lot of research to find out whether the seller in question is trustworthy or not or else he will miss the huge sporting event and lose a lot of money. If all goes well, one will be part of the arena crowd that will see Pac-Man take on Mayweather, the undisputed champion.

The East Carolina University Pirates (commonly known as ECU) and the North Carolina State University Wolf Pack (commonly known as North Carolina State) have a historic rivalry in college football dating back to decades. The first time these two neighboring soccer programs faced each other was on October 10, 1970. The game was held in Raleigh, North Carolina and the local North Carolina State University team won with a final score of 23-6.

Since the inaugural contest between these nearby schools was played in 1970, the rivalry game location has predominantly shifted from the local ECU field in Greenville, North Carolina to the local NC State football stadium in Raleigh, North Carolina. . When the game is played on the ECU campus, players compete in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium, which can host a crowd of 50,000 screaming fans. In contrast, when the football game between these two institutions of higher learning is played on the North Carolina state campus in Raleigh, the game is held at Carter-Finley Stadium, which seats 57,583 comfortably. .

Much of the anticipation surrounding this game between non-conference rivals stems from the fact that these two schools are roughly 75 miles apart. A distance of only 75 miles is, for all intents and purposes, a neighboring school by the standards of a large college campus. The fact that students from either school can jump into their cars and be on the opposite campus in less than an hour and a half is alone enough ingredient to build a sustainable rivalry.

Due to the proximity of these two colleges, many students from both schools have friends who went to high school with and now attend the rival college. These folks mark this game on their calendars as a date to catch up with old friends, as well as some quality college football.

An interesting dynamic of this rivalry is that these two college football programs meet at different conferences. East Carolina University plays in Conference USA, which ranks the University of Houston and the University of Central Florida among its most competitive soccer programs. North Carolina State University, on the other hand, is a proud member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), which counts the University of Miami and the State of Florida as two of its strongest soccer programs.

East Carolina and NC State have met a total of 26 times. Of those 26 cases, the games were played twice at neutral sites (in 1996 and 2004) and one meeting was actually at a bowling alley (Peach Bowl in 1992). In the 26 North Carolina state contests, the series leads the series by a count of 26-10.