Don Nelson is deservingly going into the Hall of Fame as a coach this week he has won more games than any NBA coach ever, he was the innovator of small ball.

But at every stop he seems to be asked, are you coming back? He did have some conversations with the Minnesota Timberwolves last summer, so maybe

No. Not happening. Nelson is done coaching in the NBA, Sam Amick of Sports Illustrated reminds us. And he reminds us that Nelson retired to Maui for a life most of us dream about.

So no, the play-caller who was 1,335-1,063 in 31 seasons with Milwaukee, Golden State, New York and Dallas wont be leaving his life of poker games, shaved ice stands, coffee and olive trees, and beachfront property in order to chase yet another coaching opening. He did agree to leave the islands for Fridays induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, though, and hell do so as a man who appreciates the invite and is at peace with his legacy.

Im having so much fun not coaching in a life that I didnt know about, doing all these interesting things, Nelson said. I didnt know that I was going to have so much fun not coaching. There is life after basketball. I didnt know that. I know it now. And I would not go back.

Is that clear enough for you?

Some owner is going to reach out to Nelson next summer when he is looking for a new coach. Its inevitable. But the part of Nelson that entertained those calls and ideas is distracted by the Maui sunsets now.

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Calcutta News.Net Tuesday 4th September, 2012

Olympians and former international hockey players including Mohamad Riaz, B.J. Carriapa, Baljeet Singh Saini, Surinder Kaur and Sandeep Kaur are participating in the first High Performance Coaching Programme that began here Tuesday.

The three-year programme, organised by Federation of International Hockey (FIH) and Hockey India, aims to help Indian coaches obtain up to a Level 3 certification and will be an annual feature during the junior national championship.

As many as 46 coaches have registered for the inaugural course that is being conducted by FIH Master Coach and FIH Coaching and High Performance Manager Tayyab Ikram and FIH Grade 1 Coach Siegfried Aikman.

"Hockey in India needs to be institutionalised and the focus should be on the structural development and high performance awareness. There is a pressing need of professional high performance center and a long term plan for coaches and training of team entourage, time to give up ad hoc arrangements," Ikram said.

"In India, we need to be more consistent when it comes to coaching development. This can be the most important investment for a country which is very rich in potential and talent," he said.

The seven-day initiative will conclude Sep 10, a day after the conclusion of the men's junior hockey championship.

The content includes two High Performance Courses a year and will target the experienced and qualified coaches from all over India. It also includes inputs from top experts and practical coaching sessions, discussions on development, special presentations and contributions from participants, match analysis, feedback after each course and complete monitoring and assessment process will be in place.

"We are delighted to assist the coach education programme which intends to develop the coaches with updated and scientific know how of High Performance Coaching, an area which needs attention and resources in a country full of talent," Kelly Fairweather, CEO, FIH said.

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"The Bachelor"

"The Bachelor," ABC
Status: Renewed
Why: You really think we've seen the last rose handed out? Not in a million years. ABC has already tapped their next "Bachelorette," and we know they'll have their eyes peeled for a hot rejected man from that spinoff to be the next "Bachelor."

"The Bachelorette," ABC
Status: Likely to be renewed
Why: "Bachelor" Brad's also-ran Emily Maynard is getting her turn as the rose giver for the seventh season of "The Bachelorette" this summer. As long as there are people willing to look for love on reality TV, this show will keep on trucking.

"Body of Proof," ABC
Status: Renewed
Why: "Body of Proof" has been falling below its timeslot competitor, CBS's "Unforgettable," but it still draws a decent audience and its fans are very vocal. ABC has decided it deserves a third season.

"Castle," ABC
Status: Renewed
Why: This show's ratings have definitely suffered without "Dancing With the Stars" airing beforehand, but it is a consistent performer. And now that Castle and Beckett's relationship is evolving, a fifth season of "oh yes they will" is a no-brainer.

"Charlie's Angels," ABC
Status: Canceled
Why: Not really a shock for anybody, but "Charlie's Angels" is cooked. Flimsy story, bad remake, questionable casting.

"Cougar Town," ABC
Status: Renewed -- for TBS!
Why: The Season 3 ratings weren't boosted much by holding this show until midseason, but ABC's wonky air schedule also didn't help ... which is why the news that TBS has picked up the show for a fourth season is huge. Cheers with your Big Carl!

"Dancing With the Stars," ABC
Status: Renewed
Why: "DWTS" may have lost its luster in the ratings, but if the viewers are still coming.

"Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23," ABC
Status: Renewed
Why: ABC's new bleep-worthy comedy starring Krysten Ritter, Dreama Walker and James Van Der Beek is a funny one, and definitely embraces the quirk (Beek Jeans!), so we're excited to see what they do with a second season.

"Desperate Housewives," ABC
Status: Canceled
Why: After countless deaths, murders, betrayals and natural disasters on Wisteria Lane over the show's eight seasons, the ladies of "Desperate Housewives" will say goodbye forever this May.

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Northside defensive coordinator Kevin Smith, left, and Veterans defensive coordinator Scott Lamb, right, keep an eye on their softball playing daughters, Sarah Smith and Avery Lamb, as Northside and Veterans prepare to face each other in football Thursday.

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WARNER ROBINS -- Heres a suggestion for the Northside football public address announcer: Throw in a few softball updates during Thursday nights football game between Northside and Veterans. The opposing defensive coordinators will be listening in.

Because theyre assigned the task of stopping the others offense, Scott Lamb of Veterans and Kevin Smith of Northside will miss important region softball games involving their daughters Avery and Sarah, respectively. Veterans plays at Perry. The Lady Eagles host Jones County.

That might not sound like a big deal to a lot of people, but it is to the two coaches.

They dont take (softball) lightly, Smiths wife, Monica, said.

(My father is) the one that, when I dont feel like working, will tell me, Youve got to work hard to be the best, Avery Lamb said. Hes the one that pushes me.

Sarah Smith said when she reached high school she realized, Everywhere I go, (my fathers) watching me. He checks on her class progress and he checks on her attitude and effort at practice.

Its not, however, all bad.

Hes getting me all the coaching and lessons that I need, she said.

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Henry David Thoreau said: Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.

Are you living the life you've imagined? What would it take to walk the path of your dreams? Life coaches can help you realize your goals and actualize your ambitions. No one reaches their pinnacle alone. Professional athletes utilize the expertise of coaches. Highly successful business executives have coaches to aid in their effective and efficient day-to-day task handling. So why shouldn't you enlist the help of a life coach? You deserve it. We all are worthy of having someone on our team helping us to objectively assess what is working and what isn't and to come up with a plan to get us moving in the right direction.

Juxtaposed with traditional therapy, which often helps individuals look into their past to create a better present, life coaching looks into the future and helps clients develop a plan to reach their goals. Specifically, life coaching, or integrative counseling, offers clients an opportunity to take a closer look at their goals, whether physical, mental, emotional, professional or financial. With the help of an objective and highly educated professional, clients learn how to evaluate the ways in which each goal can work more synergistically through the implementation of goal setting, organized scheduling, monitoring and measuring progress, support and accountability. Too often we compartmentalize our lives and isolate segments of ourselves, and in so doing, we are unable to reach our ultimate goals in fitness, life and beyond. For example, working to reach financial success may mean looking deeply at emotional and physical health, while working toward a weight-loss goal may mean taking a close look at effective coping skills. Integrative counseling takes a comprehensive approach to help clients map out the most effective ways to accomplish their ambitions in a holistic way.

Life coaches help clients clarify their goals and identify barriers oftentimes past issues and negative beliefs that keep them from achieving these goals. A life coach also can guide clients, helping them evaluate life plans and monitor behavioral and thought patterns that support and/or detract from stated goals. Together, the life coach and the client develop a strategic plan a road map that integrates fitness, nutrition, healthy coping skills and intermediate goals to assure a positive outcome.

Working toward actualizing your potential necessitates a closer examination of the body/mind/spirit as a whole being. Holding mind/body/spirit at the forefront of everything enacts the most rapid and sustainable change a person can make in life. Integrative counseling provides clients with a road map to identify their goals in many facets of their lives. The process works toward actualizing those goals as an integrative whole.

Abby Ruby, Ph.D., is a senior coach for Carmichael Training Systems, a USA Triathlon Level II coach, a NATA-BOC certified athletic trainer, a CISSN sport nutritionist, a RYT certified yoga instructor and an author (In Sickness and In Health: Exercise Addiction in Endurance Athletes). Ruby offers group and one-on-one coaching options, including nutrition counseling, optimal performance strategy, life coaching and sports psychology. Call 970-476-7721.

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ARLINGTON, Texas Dee Milliner and that Alabama defense showed they can still dominate.

Even after sending three starting defenders from last year's national championship team to the NFL as first-round draft picks, the second-ranked Crimson Tide threw around eighth-ranked Michigan while pounding Denard Robinson in a season-opening 41-14 victory Saturday night.

C.J. Mosley returned an interception 16 yards for a touchdown for the Tide. AJ McCarron, no longer with third overall draft pick Trent Richardson to hand the ball off to, threw two touchdowns as Alabama won its 11th consecutive season opener.

Milliner, the primary nickelback last season now in a starting role, deflected four passes in the first half, and had an interception after shoving intended receiver Roy Roundtree to the ground and into the Alabama sideline. That set up a touchdown for the Crimson Tide, which shot out to a 31-0 lead.

While Michigan still can recover to contend for a Big Ten title and possible Rose Bowl bid, this could be a confidence-shaking performance.

Other Top 25 games

At No. 3 Louisiana State 41,

North Texas 14

Kenny Hilliard rushed for 141 yards and two touchdowns, and LSU opened its season with a victory over North Texas.

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by Lester Mekan Baha, reporters@theborneopost.com. Posted on September 3, 2012, Monday

KOTAS SWIMMERS: Kotass coach Jeffery Ho (right) poses with, from left Angela Chieng, Annie Chieng and Welson Sim.

KUCHING: Kota Samarahan Amateur Swimming Association (Kotas) swimmers have expressed their desire to train under Kuching Amateur Swimming Association (Kasa) swimming coach.

Kotas swimmers Angela Chieng, Annie Chieng and Welson Sim who collected a total of five gold, three silver and four bronze medals during the last Sukma in Pahang have intended to train with their former coach Ren Xiao Shun who is currently coaching Kasas swimmers.

The assistant coach from Kotas Jeffery Ho said that the former coach, Ren had greatly improved their swimmers basic swimming styles.

As soon as he was assigned to Kotas he quickly required all the swimmers to revert practicing the basic styles of swimming, whose actions initially drew some complain from the swimmers parents as time wasting because they have gone through the sessions earlier in training, Jeffery commented to The Borneo Post yesterday.

Jeffery recalled that Kotas swimmers were required to practice the backstroke basic techniques-floating on their back and keeping horizontal as they propelled their body through the water.

And the former coach will continues to take days to practice the butterfly stroke, by introducing the dolphin-style kick, the breaststroke uses a frog-style kick and the sidestroke which holds importance for swimmers because you can use it to rescue someone, since it only requires one arm, he informed.

In another development Jeffery revealed that at the moment they are 28 young swimmers under Kotas Elite Development Programme with the newly MSNS appointed Chinese coach Li Guo Bing.

And in the programme he added, Kotas always adopt coaching strategies of balancing coaching to win and coaching for learning as a developmental issue for their young swimmers.

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New Video Training Provides Strategies for Life and Fitness Success with Fitness Experts Todd Durkin and John Spencer Ellis

Fitness and coaching expert shares his top tips for success in both fitness and life in a new video interview. The video training is now available for free online at http://johnspencerellis.com/todd-durkin-interview-video-training-life-and-fitness-success/.

Durkin is the strength and conditioning coach for both Brees and NFL legend LaDainian Tomlinson as well as a business owner, author and mentor.

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In the video training interview, Durkin and Ellis discuss what makes people rise to the next level, a host of life lessons, several icons in the fitness and personal development industries, the importance of the people you surround yourself with, achieving success on a holistic level, overcoming adversity, nutrition, taking risks and taking advantage of opportunities, the importance of mental training, getting organized in the fitness industry, how to live a life worth telling a story about and much more.

This is truly an all-access, in-depth interview with one of the top coaching and fitness experts in the world, said Ellis, founder of John Spencer Ellis Enterprises, a fitness and personal development solutions company. Todds experience, knowledge and passion are unparalleled, and he offers a wealth of great insights, ideas and inspiration.

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About John Spencer Ellis Enterprises John Spencer Ellis Enterprises is a solutions provider for fitness and coaching professionals around the world, providing education, turn-key business programs, coaching and resources for new and advanced fitness and coaching professionals. For more information about John Spencer Ellis Enterprises or to watch the free video training with Todd Durkin on success in fitness and in life, please visit http://johnspencerellis.com/todd-durkin-interview-video-training-life-and-fitness-success/

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By Ben Smith Former professional footballer

I always wanted to leave football on my terms but in the end I suppose it was mutual.

After 17 years as a professional player with Arsenal, Reading, Yeovil, Hereford, Shrewsbury and Crawley, today is the first day of the rest of my life. Today I am starting work as a teacher.

It is actually the same school that I attended - I am teaching business and ICT at the Maltings Academy in Essex - so it's not completely alien territory, but it still means going from being a 33-year-old, respected member of a dressing room to being the equivalent of a 19-year-old starting a new job.

I have known this time was coming, of course, so over the past four or five years I have completed a business management degree and done my Uefa coaching badges. During the last year I've been going into a school on my day off on a voluntary basis and they have offered me a job.

The point that triggered all this for me was buying a house in my mid-20s because before that I would join a new team, go off in my car with a bag of clothes and rent a room off another player.

It was as simple as that.

But having a mortgage meant that if I left a club, I could not just go back to living in my dad's spare room and see what happened. I knew I needed to plan ahead.

I had not been involved in education since leaving school with no qualifications at 16 but I decided to start a flexible access course. There were 10 of us in the room and we were asked to write down an introductory paragraph about ourselves. I just spent 15 minutes staring into thin air.

1995 - Signs professional contract with Arsenal.

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Editors note: This is the fourth story in a series profiling the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2012.

Dont hate on Don Nelson after reading about the life he has led and is still leading.

An early investor in the Hawaiian Island of Maui where he owns beachfront and farming real estate and lives fulltime, Nelson spent 50 years in the NBA as a player and a coach.

Now hes going into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Nelson and the rest of the class of 2012 will be Enshrined on Friday at Symphony Hall, a moment the man known as Nellie never thought would happen.

I was nominated four times and got rejected four times so I figured it wasnt going to happen, Nelson said. I had this wonderful friend of mine who died this year, Jim Fitzgerald, who wanted me to be in so bad. He kept putting my name in I guess.

But I never really thought I was that worthy of going in, Nelson added. I never won a title or anything like that and usually thats pretty important for getting in.

What he did win was 1,335 NBA games, putting him second to none for coaching wins in the NBA. He coached 31 years in the NBA, beginning with the Milwaukee Bucks for the first 11. He coached Golden State for a total of 11 years over two stints, spent eight years in Dallas and coached one year in New York.

And while a title eluded him, Nelson garnered three Coach of the Year Awards, joining Pat Riley as the only ones to accomplish the feat.

Nelson wasnt the kind of coach who wanted him next job to be an easy one. Building a team and making it into a competitor was more his speed.

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