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Coaching with passion

A great coach who should never be forgotten. He was innovative, unorthodox and would crush his opponents. He would clean the womens stadium bathrooms with Clorox and sweep off the seats on game day. He would help the flight attendants serve his players and clean up after them as well. He would win, set records that have never been broken and take his team to parts of the world where football has never been played.

He compiled one of the best coaching records in the history of college athletics (186-62-4 ties, a 74% winning percentage)

ICONGene Upshaw, like many others, was groomed by Steinke.

Steinke was the athletic director and head football coach at Texas A&I University (now Texas A&M-Kingsville) for 23 years and during that time he compiled a record that takes a back seat to no one. More importantly, he recruited and harmonized whites, African-Americans and Hispanics together and taught them to play together and respect each other in the south where and when racial tensions were running hot.

Steinkes squads won six national championships, were a national runner-up once and had an eighth postseason victory when the Javelinas won the 1960 Great Southwest Bowl.

His teams had a 14-1 record in NAIA post-season play.

The Javelinas won 10 Lone Star Conference championships in his 1954-76 tenure. This was no easy feat as during this time most Texas football players stayed in the state and the Lone Star Conference was loaded with talent.

Steinke had a 39-game winning streak intact when he stepped down as head coach after the 1976 season.

In his final three seasons, Texas A&I was 13-0 in 1974, 12-0 in 1975 and 13-0 in 1976.

He also had undefeated teams in 1962 (9-0-1) and 1967 (9-0-0).

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To tell the story of Joe Paterno, author Joe Posnanski wrote an opera, structuring his book with an overture and acts, arias and intermezzos. It's an homage to Joe Paterno's love of opera, as well as an illustration of the size and scope of Joe Paterno' life.

"It's a big life," Posnanski concludes.

And clearly, one that eludes easy reduction. "Paterno" which went on sale Tuesday offers no definitive answers to what the late Penn State coach knew about Jerry Sandusky or what he meant when he said, more than once, "I wish I had done more." The book does not claim that as its mission. In fact, the core of "Paterno" might come from a story entirely unrelated to Sandusky.

While recruiting John Cappelletti, who eventually won Penn State's only Heisman Trophy, Paterno first met the running back's younger brother, Joey, who had leukemia. Paterno spent the evening talking with Joey, while an assistant coach discussed Penn State with Cappelletti and his family.

"In this story," Posnanski writes, "as with so many of Paterno's actions, you can see the beauty or you can see the self-interest. Do you see a man who came across a child in pain and decided that the most important thing he could do that evening was try to bring a little joy into his life? Or do you see a man who determined that the best way he could recruit John Cappelletti to play at Penn State was to spend the evening talking to his sick younger brother?"

How you answer those questions will determine your reaction to the book. A reporter from ESPN.com wrote that "[f]or the fair-minded reader, the book will begin to rehabilitate Paterno's image." A review in the Wall Street Journal called the book "a devastating blow to Paterno's legacy."

Posnanski, who spent nearly a year in State College and was the last person to interview Paterno, does not crucify or indemnify the coach. He does not lead readers to stark conclusions one way or the other. Instead, Posnanski moors his book, particularly those sections regarding Sandusky, in a middle ground he describes variously as "murkier waters," "the storm" and "smoggy gray."

Friends and family members essentially forced Paterno to break from preparing his team to play Nebraska and read the November 2011 grand jury report that graphically described Sandusky's acts of pedophilia. Paterno, Posnanski writes, was confused both by the report and people's reactions to his part in it.

While reading the report, Paterno asked his son Scott, "What is sodomy, anyway?"

The late head coach also wondered how child-care professionals who approved Sandusky to be a foster parent and adopt children could have missed such crimes.

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SHREWSBURY, N.J., Aug. 22, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via PRWEB - For the first time ever, the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) is offering its exclusive Coach Centric Leadership(TM) Engagement Program (CCLEP(TM)) in the Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York markets this fall as part of its new regional format debut. Previously, the highly sought after program, which helps build energized and engaged organizations for innovation and growth, was only available to corporations, governments, and law enforcement agencies.

The Coach Centric Leadership(TM) Engagement Program is a unique form of leadership training designed to assist leaders in realizing their full potential through the use of coaching, and helps drive organizational development. As a powerful result, organizations shift to a culture of collaboration, teamwork, and continuous learning that delivers a higher level of engagement among employees.

"In 2011, we conducted a tremendous amount of research on happiness in the workplace and, to our surprise, uncovered a remarkably high level of employee dissatisfaction," said Zack Lemelle, Managing Partner, Corporate Engagement Services for iPEC. "We found the unhappiest employees felt disengaged from their place of work; and key to turning that around was to deliver a reinvigorated work environment."

The Coach Centric Leadership(TM) Engagement Program helps develop Coach Centric Leaders(TM) that respond, instead of react, to events in the workplace in an effort to create a more energized work environment, and to literally see the world in a different way. A key aspect of the training is Energy Leadership(TM), a process that has the power to shift thoughts and perceptions to create an energized culture of engagement, collaboration, and innovation. Energy Leadership can help trained leaders bring awareness to, and interrupt, behavioral patterns that are not beneficial. The training also helps executives consciously create their own image of an ideal leader, and gives them the tools to succeed in that role.

"We have seen dramatic organizational shifts take place within companies following private trainings," said Lemelle. "Common outcomes have included employees arriving eager and ready to work, sidelining any preconceived egos, replacing office politics with genuine cooperation, focusing on bolstering 'what's right' and even developing innovation and service breakthroughs no longer requiring the creation of special 'task forces' to address challenges."

The carefully crafted regional Coach Centric Leadership(TM) Engagement Programs are designed to be intimate educational sessions that answer the call for companies searching for new methods to create a culture of high engagement. Additionally, the Coach Centric Leadership Engagement Program provides Human Resource professionals with HRCI credits.

Program Components and 2012 Fall Dates

The Coach Centric Leadership(TM) Engagement Program is broken into three basic components. The first is designed to assess employee engagement levels and reveal strengths that align with organizational values and enable change. The second is designed to build upon revealed strengths, and restore cohesion and purpose. The third and final phase is designed to develop the Coach Centric LeaderTM, while renewing energy, creativity, and performance.

As part of the program, candidates will participate in a pre- and post- Energy Leadership Index Assessment(TM) to gauge progress. Once the assessment is complete, candidates will attend two in-person modules, scheduled for October 16th thru 18th and December 18th and 19th in New Jersey, October 24th thru 26th and January 24th and 25th at California State University-Long Beach and November 7th thru 9th and February 6th and 7th in Chicago. Both in-person modules are followed by a series of executive mentor coaching sessions to ensure the values and learnings are assimilated into leadership practices.

The full program tuition is $5,600 per participant with group discounts available. For additional information on the Coach Centric Leadership(TM) Engagement Program, and to sign up for the regional trainings, visit http://www.iPECLeadership.com or follow iPEC's Leadership Twitter account at http://www.twitter.com/iPEC_Leadership.

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"Im wiser for being out of the game. I did find it frustrating. I only went to one game during the first year of the ban, and then in the next two years, almost every weekend was spent watching rugby. I love the game.

It is reasonable to assume, too, that just as Richardss love affair with the sport has not diminished, that he too will be held in the same degree of affection as he was before Harlequins wing, Tom Williams, was instructed to bite into a blood capsule to feign injury to get Harlequins kicker, Nick Evans, back on the field. Richards accepts, though, that some will not find it easy to forgive.

If people want to say something, then fine. Ive served my time, done my three years, and thats it, said Richards. If some feel it should have been longer, so be it. Some might feel it should have been less. Ive never been one for the public eye. Its just good to be back in rugby.

Richards intends to move his family to the North East from Surrey. He has no qualms about starting rugby life again in the Championship, a familiar start of affairs given that he took over at Harlequins in 2005 after they had been relegated.

The difference this time is that there is a top four play-off system in the Championship rather than the first-past-the-post system that was in place seven years ago and which saw Quins bounce straight back up.

Its not a set-back for me to be in the Championship, not at all, said Richards who won praise for the way the perceived one-time toffs of the professional game, Quins, conducted themselves in the lower league.

Newcastle were bottom of the pile when I signed. We could go through the season being disrespectful and thinking its a job to be done and thats it. Or the boys can go out and really enjoy the experience. I fell in love with the area when I came up here and I share the vision, too, of owner, Semore Kurdi.

The Falcons will be better equipped than most to tilt for promotion. They have kept a fair chunk of the squad intact and have been boosted by international signings such as Scotland scrum-half Rory Lawson and Italy lock Carlo del Fava.

The RFU on Tuesday announced a four-year funding deal for the Championship, starting at 300,000 p.a for each of the 12 clubs dependent on them fielding 15 England-qualified players in a match-day squad, rising to 380,000 in 2015-16.

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Published: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 at 8:45 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 at 8:45 p.m.

Rather than pop a pill to alleviate anxiety or spend thousands of dollars on therapies that might never heal a fractured soul, lesser-traveled paths exist that offer more affordable services to "lift the veil" and lead one to optimum mental and physical health.

Some of these alternative options are flourishing in Winter Haven.

The Center for Personal Growth, 151 Second St. SW, offers workshops and private consultations in endeavors in self-discovery, such as life coaching, hypnotherapy, meditation, law of attraction and breath work.

Owner Cara Hewett, a licensed mental health counselor, is trained in cognitive and behavioral therapy. As a psychotherapist, Hewett said she felt that talk therapy, based on a model of change-your-thoughts-and-your-behavior-will-change, was missing a spiritual component.

"By spiritual component, I don't necessarily mean religion," Hewett said. "I mean the soulfulness, the higher self."

Hewett said she wanted to create a conscious community and to connect with other like-minded people. Like a pebble dropped in a pond, Hewett's hope is that the center, which opened three years ago, has a rippling effect on individuals, families and businesses and that will ultimately change the local community as a whole.

"My goal is to create a place where people learn and have wisdom about themselves and their relationships their purpose in life," she said. "I think that if I can be that resource for that, we're going to have an incredible community."

Workshops, at a cost of $10 to $25 each, are facilitated by Hewett and a network of "healing facilitators," including Jai Maa, one of the center's teachers, whose qualifications include being a licensed hypnotherapist and life coach with a doctorate in metaphysics and spirituality.

Born and raised in Auburndale, Lacey Nagy, who goes by Jai Maa, now lives in Gainesville and travels to Winter Haven to teach the Enlightenment Series, which includes various workshops covering alternative topics, such as the law of attraction, EFT tapping and ho'oponopono.

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Brad Jackson didn't report to anyone on the basketball court in almost three decades at Western Washington, but on the first day with the Washington Huskies, he double-checked the start of practice with his boss.

"Practice in 25 minutes, right?" he asked coach Lorenzo Romar.

Before walking away, Jackson chuckled and said: "Wouldn't want to be late."

It used to be that workouts began when Jackson arrived.

But now the 60-year-old Division II coaching legend is the rookie on UW's staff, beginning what he calls "a new chapter" in a decorated coaching career.

"There's not any question that it's going to be an adjustment for me," Jackson said. "I don't have any delusions of grandeur. Hopefully I can bring something that's maybe an addition and fits in well."

Monday was a day for changes at Montlake.

The Huskies introduced Jackson at about the same time his predecessor, Raphael Chillious, who spent the past three years at UW, was hired as an assistant at Villanova.

Washington also announced the addition of walk-on sophomore guard Quinn Sterling, a former Mercer Island High standout.

Media members got an up-close view of the new video scoreboard, which was lowered from the Alaska Airlines Arena rafters and suspended inches above the court.

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The following editorial appeared recently in the Los Angeles Times:

The world is awash in diet and weight-loss advice disseminated on the Internet and TV and in books, magazines and Weight Watchers meetings. So Steve Cooksey's website hardly seems out of the ordinary. The food plan helped Cooksey lose 78 pounds and, he says, control his diabetes without medication.

Yet, the North Carolina-based blogger was flagged by a regulatory board in that state for answering readers' specific queries in a Dear Abby-style column and offering life coaching for a fee. North Carolina, like many other states, does not allow anyone to dispense nutritional advice free or for pay without a license. In California, by comparison, a person who wants to call himself a dietitian needs to register as such and receive a credential from a professional board. But anyone is free to be a nutrition counselor, without a license, and offer advice.

Cooksey voluntarily removed the offending parts of his website and then filed a lawsuit, arguing that the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition had infringed his right to free speech. He said he altered the website only because he feared civil or criminal action by the state. Board officials, on the other hand, said they were only following state law.

Cooksey's case will be decided under North Carolina law, and won't have many ramifications outside the state. The issues surrounding it, however, may offer lawmakers some guidance. Smart oversight in this area requires balancing free speech and consumer protection. And resolving that tension means recognizing that there is a difference between casual and commercial advice, and that those who offer themselves as advisors may subject themselves to greater regulation than those who merely describe their own experiences.

In California, as long as Cooksey didn't call himself a registered dietitian a disclaimer on his website states that he is a layperson he could have legally done all the advising that got him in trouble in North Carolina. But with varying state laws and the proliferation of bloggers and chatters providing diet and health counsel, the best advice may be: Advice-seeker, beware.

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OUTGOING Melbourne Vixens coach Julie Hoornweg will "hide out in a vegie garden" in the state's north after announcing her retirement last week.

Hoornweg has not sought reappointment for next year's ANZ Championship campaign, despite coaching the Vixens to a flag and two grand finals during her five-year tenure.

Hoornweg, whose netball career spans almost 40 years, has elected to step away from the elite game to spend more time with her family.

She will move back to a goat farm near Violet Town, which she runs with her husband. "Of course it is (difficult). I've invested a lot of time, effort and emotion, like a lot of people have into this club," she said.

"But you need a lot of energy. I just feel that perhaps I don't have that same energy that I did a couple of years ago.

"It's time to give someone else a chance."

Hoornweg revealed she was "fairly clear" some time ago that this year would be her last.

"In my life at this point I need to spend some time with my family and get a balance," she said.

She did not rule out a return to elite netball in the future, but confirmed she would not be a part of the hunt for a new coach.

Hoornweg nominated assistants, Eloise Southby-Halbish and Simone McKinnis, as worthy successors.

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March 25, 1924 - Aug. 17, 2012

Frank Basilone was such an outstanding football player, he was recruited by the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1945, but he was unable to sign with the team because he had to help support his family in the wake of his father's death.

That didn't stop Mr. Basilone, of Springdale, from devoting much of the rest of his life to playing and coaching sports and mentoring young baseball players and coaching his three sons into attaining sports scholarships to college.

Mr. Basilone, 88, died Friday at Family Hospice Canterbury Center from heart valve problems, said his son, Tim, of Springdale.

Mr. Basilone spent 35 years working for Duquesne Light, retiring as a supervisor.

But his avocation was playing semi-professional sports and then coaching and helping to coach American Legion baseball and high school football and affecting the lives of hundreds of young athletes from the 1960s until about 1995, according to his son.

Mr. Basilone was a fullback on the Duquesne University football team when he was called to serve in the Army during World War II. His military service was cut short because his father died, and as the eldest son, he returned home to help support the family.

But he continued to play sports, largely in semi-professional and community leagues.

Don "Simmy" Simoncic, who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1967 and 1968, was coached in American Legion baseball by Mr. Basilone, who he said taught him the skills that got him onto the Pirates farm team from which he was called up.

Mr. Simoncic said Mr. Basilone was a tough coach and that not all of his players liked to be pushed to limits that Mr. Basilone pushed.

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