Tiger great touts importance of good influences

Former Pacific basketball star Dell Demps, the general manager of the New Orleans Hornets, speaks at the first Rams Symposium on positive coaching Saturday at St. Mary's Morelli Gym.MICHAEL McCOLLUM/The Record

September 09, 2012 12:00 AM

STOCKTON - New Orleans Hornets general manager Dell Demps didn't become an NBA executive overnight.

He prepared himself to seize the opportunity.

The former three-time All-Big West Conference guard at Pacific shared some of his views on life, coaching and parenting to an audience of about 350 at the Rams Symposium on positive coaching Saturday at St. Mary's High.

Born in Long Beach and raised by caring parents in Hayward, Demps said he analyzed his positives and negatives and worked to become the person he wanted to be.

Demps achieved academically and athletically at Mt. Eden High in Hayward and put himself in a position to accept a scholarship to Pacific. He honed his basketball skills under coach Bob Thomason, graduating in 1992 as the program's second all-time leading scorer.

He played professionally overseas and for three NBA teams in a 10-year career. Demps prepared for life after basketball, earning bachelor's and master's degrees in business at Pacific, and by developing meaningful relationships along the way.

Demps worked in the NBA as an intern, then as a scout, then as a director of player personnel, and since July 2010, the 42-year-old father of three has been one of only 30 people in the world helping call the shots for an NBA franchise as a general manager.

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A former NFL All-Pro named Joe Ehrmann kicked open a coaching door three years ago that has inspired Wally Sparks to come rushing through.

Ehrmanns Building Men for Others coaching approach featured in a New York Times best-seller Season of Life shattered traditional coaching models and struck a loud chord with Sparks, who until a year ago lived in Macon County and was a head coach with the Mount Zion Junior Football League program and a volunteer coach for the Mount Zion High School team.

It was Sparks who brought Erhmann to Decatur and offered a chance for any and every coach in the area to hear his message. It was Sparks who hoped at least a few of them would be motivated as he was, rising to the challenge to implement Ehrmanns methods.

And now, it is Sparks who has documented his own attempt to apply Ehrmanns ideas in a practical sense during the 2010 Mount Zion Junior Football League season. Sparks book Season of Change is on sale now, and none other than Ehrmann himself has endorsed the book by writing the forward.

Says Ehrmann: This is a must-read for coaches, parents, youth workers and educators who want more for Americas children and more out of the sports our children play. Season of Change is a practical hands-on book that reinforces its central theme: that the educational, social, emotional and moral well-being of players is every bit as important as the Xs and Os. In fact, it should be the reason players play, parents participate and coaches coach!

Understanding Ehrmanns coaching premise is not easy. And that only makes implementing it an even more daunting task.

Yet Sparks, who has since moved his family to suburban St. Louis, felt compelled to try with his young Mount Zion players in 2010.

I wasnt nervous going in, maybe out of naivet, said Sparks, who still maintains a Decatur office with the The Brechnitz Group of Raymond James Associates. I knew it was going to be my last year as coach, so there was some freedom in knowing, What can they do? Fire me?

There was noapprehension at the beginning. But there were periods of apprehension during it.

Some background is in order.

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Anthony Tony Luciano, a legendary coach at Hudson Falls whose influence extended far beyond the playing field, died on Saturday morning. He was 91.

Luciano worked at Hudson Falls as a teacher and coach for 35 years, a career that began in 1948 and extended into the 1980s. He coached football, basketball, track and cross country, and spent much of his tenure as the schools athletic director.

But high school sports was only a part of the work he did. Luciano was heavily involved in community sports, running summer playground programs and weekend basketball leagues. He served as secretary of Section II from 1957 to 1980 and was on the Section II basketball committee for decades. He was a basketball referee, and later served as an assignor of officials.

He was totally committed to his life and his profession, said Doug Kenyon, who was hired by Luciano to coach basketball at Hudson Falls and later went on to become athletic director at Glens Falls and director of the state boys basketball committee.

Luciano earned many honors during his lifetime. Hes a member of the New York State Basketball Hall of Fame, and was recently inducted into the New York State Public High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame. He was also a member of the International Association of Approved Basketball Officials Hall of Fame.

He received numerous other civic and community honors.

Lucianos teams had a lot of success. His basketball teams were a combined 335-135 in 25 seasons, according to NYSPHSAA records. His track teams won 15 Northern Conference dual-meet championships in 34 years.

He is better remembered by many, however, for his work with students at the grassroots level.

Tony, in my mind, was a guy that was the epitome of what a coach and a teacher should be, Kenyon said. First and foremost, he loved the kids. He commanded a lot of respect just because of his love for teaching and coaching. ... He was just totally committed and dedicated to what he did.

His legacy lives on in Hudson Falls in many ways. The road into the high school is named Tony Luciano Lane. The 28th annual Tony Luciano 5K Road Race was held last month, and an invitational track meet during the spring also bears his name.

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As with most joys in life, the sweetest victories come when returning home. For Ursuline Academy volleyball coach Jeni Case, this meant traveling to her alma mater Seton Thursday night to record her 300th career coaching win. Cases career high school coaching record is 300-107 over 17 seasons heading into today.

Case, who graduated from Seton in 1990, said that reaching the milestone where she grew up made the victory even more special.

My first volleyball coach I ever had, from when I was in fifth and sixth grade, was there, Case said. My high school coach was there, and I actually ran into two former teammates from Seton.

Following the win, parents and players took Case into the Seton lobby, where cookies with 300 written in icing awaited her.

Ursuline won the match 25-17, 25-23, 25-21, improving their record to 2-2. Case previously recorded her 200th career coaching win also against Seton, although that match was home at Ursuline.

Volleyball has been a constant throughout Cases life. At Seton, she was part of two state championship squads (1986, 1988), one state runner-up team (1989), and reached the state semifinals her sophomore year. After graduation, Case continued her playing career at Thomas More College, where is a member of the Thomas More College Hall of Fame, a three-time All-American for her defensive play.

Case began coaching club volleyball when she was 18 years old. In 1995 she returned to Seton as an assistant before taking over the head coaching position at Colerain in 1996. There she led the Cardinals to the regional finals and amassed 21 wins. In 1997, when Lakota split into Lakota East and Lakota West High School, Case became the inaugural Lakota East head volleyball coach, holding that title for nine years and 135 wins. Finally, in 2006, Case moved to her current position at Ursuline. The win over Seton yesterday is her 144th with the Lions.

For me, the most memorable game would probably be in 2009 when we won the state for Ursuline. We had lost in 2008, and that really hurt us, Case said. I felt that year like we had a college team, we were just so deep and had so many options.

Case continues to coach club volleyball during the high school offseason, establishing Elevation Volleyball, a program that fields squads for ages 10-18, with her husband, John Paul Case. The couple also founded the Sports Express Volleyball Center in Mason. Case also helps coach her daughters fifth grade team.

I have probably been coaching all year round since I was 18. I only took a year off after I had my daughter, Case said.

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SOME athletes have the privilege of living a celebritys life during their careers.

They have a gathering of fans, and sometimes a whole nation, rooting them on as they work hard to earn championship titles and medals.

Athletes spend most of their lives being disciplined and focused on their training and their chosen game. Some enjoy illustrious careers and are accorded a spot in the hall of fame.

But unlike most other jobs, athletes retire much earlier.

After many years of being synonymous with the sports that they play, sportsmen may find it a challenge to make a transition to a life outside the court or field.

While some move on to coaching, others take on new ventures and build businesses.

Turning to a childhood hobby

It is not common to associate an athletic figure with a dainty interest such as flowers. But veteran shuttler Wong Choong Hann always had a love for flowers before badminton took centre stage in his life.

Yes, it is quite unexpected. But badminton is not all that rough, Wong laughingly counters.

Wong spent much of his younger days in the garden before he started his training in badminton.

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Best coaching decision of the year, thus far: Mesa High coach Kelley Moore suspending 13 players, including two starters for tonight's game against Gilbert.

Mesa is 0-2. Gilbert may be one of the few teams on its schedule it can beat. Plus, tonight is the 1,000th game in school history. It's a big deal for the school and it might be the best moment the Jackrabbits have all year.

Moore easily could have held the players out in the first quarter for their transgression - they were late to a practice - yet let them play in the game. Many coaches would have done that - or less.

Instead, Moore decided it was more important to maintain discipline in Mesa's program and teach the kids a valuable life lesson.

Good for him.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. For programs that rarely play and have very different football traditions, Virginia and Penn State share a number of personnel connections.

Quarterback Michael Roccos father was a standout signal caller for the Nittany Lions, and coaches Mike London and Bill O'Brien have ties that go back to their days as ACC assistants.

But perhaps most notable is the fact that Jerry Sandusky was one of the top finalists for the job when Cavaliers coach George Welsh retired.

Sandusky, who awaits sentencing on 45 counts of child sex abuse, was interviewed twice by Virginia officials in late 2000, and was visited in Pennsylvania by then-president John Casteen and then-athletic director Terry Holland.

Accounts from the Times-Dispatch at the time said Casteen and Holland came away from (the) visit concerned that his involvement with the Second Mile, the charitable organization he founded in 1982, might prevent him from making the necessary commitment to coaching.

Two days later, Al Groh announced his resignation as New York Jets coach to take the job at U.Va.

Holland, in an e-mail, said the search was waiting for Groh to finish the season with the Jets all along.

We never got to the point of a background check for Coach Sandusky, so (I) dont have any idea of whether or not that would have revealed anything, particularly at that time, he wrote.

Of his reaction to hearing the charges against Sandusky, Holland said he was surprised: Everything we knew of Coach Sandusky at that time indicated that he was an excellent coach and an even better human being.

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OAKLAND, Calif. Don Nelson will officially enter the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Friday. But there is one notable person that thinks the NBA's all-time leader in coaching victories should not be inducted.

Nellie himself.

"I don't really feel deserving to be in the Hall of Fame, but I am in and I'm happy about that," Nelson told Yahoo! Sports. "It's a great, great honor. There are a lot of guys who deserve it more than me that haven't got in yet like Al Attles, Bill [Fitch], [Dick] Motta and those guys. They were real coaches. Man, did they ever coach.

"So I feel a little undeserving. But anyway, here I am. Here I come."

Nelson walks into the Hall of Fame with one thing that can't be questioned. His record win total.

[Also: Rajon Rondo is interning at GQ during NYC Fashion Week]

Through 11 seasons with the Milwaukee Bucks the first beginning in 1976 11 seasons in two stints with the Golden State Warriors, one short-lived campaign that lasted 59 contests with the New York Knicks and eight seasons with the Dallas Mavericks, Nelson earned a record 1,335 victories. He downplayed his excitement about surpassing Lenny Wilkens' old mark as he approached it. But Nelson showed his true feelings by dancing with players following record win No. 1,333 in the struggling Warriors' 116-107 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on April 7, 2010.

"That team that I coached that I love so dearly wanted me to have that record so bad," Nelson said. "And they worked so hard for me to get it that I got caught up in it just like they did. They were excited. I got excited. Personally, second would have been fine with me."

Nelson wore fish ties early in his career and sneakers with his suits, yet for all his quirkiness, his innovative schemes and personnel decisions made an impact on the league. Nelson was big on using small ball, sometimes playing Golden State guards Tim Hardaway, Mitch Richmond and Sarunas Marciulionis together. He started Hack-A-Shaq. He allowed the late Manute Bol, a 7-foot-7 center, to shoot 3-pointers. He once had 7-foot forward Dirk Nowitzki guard 5-3 guard Muggsy Bogues.

"I didn't do it to be different," Nelson said. "I did it because I thought it gave me an advantage to win games otherwise I wouldn't have done it. When I coached good teams, I didn't have to do that. But when I coached bad teams I had to be creative."

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Glenna Hiett worked many different positions before she found counseling.

An Ashmore, Ill. native, Hiett worked as an interior designer, a writer, a secretary, and at a floral shop, before she decided to go back to school, in her 40s, at Indiana State University. Thats when she found her calling: marriage and family counseling. She was also certified as a life coach in 2001.

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Hiett enjoys counseling couples, families; life coaching