When you think of Florida State University, one of the enduring symbols is the duo of Renegade and Chief Osceola.

For years, those two have been linked with the athletic program and the students of Florida State University.

1. Choice of the Name Seminoles

In 1947, the student body chose the nickname "Seminoles" for its athletic programs. It would be the first time in over 40 years a football team representing Florida State would play a game.

2. The First Thought of a Mascot

In 1962, sophomore Bill Durham imagined a mascot that would consist of an Indian chief riding a horse into battle. He pitched his idea to the Homecoming Committee and was rejected. Durham graduated from Florida State in 1965.

3. Bobby Bowden Arrives In Tallahassee

One of the most important days in the history of Florida State University occurred in 1976, when Bobby Bowden starting coaching the Seminoles football team. Bowden was taking over a financially unsuccessful program with an apathetic fan base.

4. Coach Bowden Feared That No One Would Listen to Him

However, coach Bowden loved the idea of putting the idea of Bill Durham to life. In 1977, Bowden tasked Durham with doing what he could to make his dream come to life.

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Do you feel forced to choose between work and a satisfying personal life? In my career of coaching entrepreneurs, I've discovered these strategies to bridge the gap.

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About a month ago, I was approached by a young Chicago woman who has devoted her life to helping others--sometimes at the expense of her own happiness. Finally she has realized that it's her turn to ask for support and to find greater happiness in life. But the challenge would be far greater than she had anticipated.

Last week she learned that she has Stage 2 breast cancer. She is a health-conscious athlete who makes her own organic peanut butter, bread, and juices. Cancer was the last thing she or anyone who knows her would have expected."I haven't lived my life big enough," she said. "I'm not ready to die."

Immediately after learning this news, I spoke to a healthy, 58-year-old client who has decided against taking a few days off to celebrate his mother's 91st birthday with the rest of his family.

"Things are hectic at work," he said. "I'll make it up to her another time." Another time?

These experiences prompted me to think back on the entrepreneurs I have worked with over the years. How many times have I heard someone say he or she hasn't been on a vacation for years? Or that the kids were disappointed that they couldn't go to the zoo as planned? How many times has one parent needed to take the kids camping without the other because something came up at work? And how often has the overwhelmed entrepreneur taken just one more day to wrap things up before getting on a plane to be with a dying relative, sometimes arriving too late? Many, many times, I assure you. And the guilt and regret only add to the burden, making life much more difficult.

Business owners make many sacrifices; it goes with the territory. But many entrepreneurs fall into a pattern of sacrifice that isn't necessary. As the demands of business take over their lives, fear sets in. Fear of losing control, of the unknown, fear of change. And being forced to choose between personal sacrifice and facing fear pushes us out of our comfort zone.

The fear place is simply a more familiar territory, so it feels easier to stay with the fear and sacrifice a personal opportunity once again.

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13-08-2012 17:22 I am a strict Buddhist, and my calling has led me down the path of 'Life Coaching.' I will chronicle my journey by letting you all in on "enlightenment." I will answer emails, voice messages, and take video calls from the lucky people that I choose to enlighten with my coaching. I hope you all can find a way to open up and receive what I am giving. Feel free to "mooch" from the sessions. Maybe you can indirectly learn something. (The song "Blessed" is by the artist SEB,

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The 'Derby der Lage Landen' (Low Countries derby) is always a big occasion in Belgium and the Netherlands, with Wednesday's 125th meeting of the neighbours seeing two coaching debuts at Brussels' Roi Baudouin Stadium.

At 43, Marc Wilmots has succeeded Georges Leekens as Belgium boss while Louis van Gaal returns for a second spell in charge of the Oranje, having missed out on the 2002 FIFA World Cup in his previous stint from 200002.

An attacking midfielder capped 70 times by the Red Devils, Wilmots played for Belgium at that 2002 tournament but has relatively little coaching experience as he looks to inspire a strong generation. Briefly coach of FC Schalke 04 and K. Sint-Truidense VV, Wilmots worked as Leekens' assistant and has inherited substantial expectations.

With the likes of Vincent Kompany, Marouane Fellaini, Eden Hazard, Jan Vertonghen and Thomas Vermaelen performing in the English Premier League, Wilmots recognises that Belgium have the ability to qualify for a major championship for the first time since 2002.

"We have a group of 35 potential players," he said. "All of them have to pull in the same direction. Look at Portugal in the past always a team of individuals, now a solid block and in the EURO 2012 semi-finals.

"First we have to learn to work together, then we have to be there," the former R. Standard de Lige and Schalke man added. "No more excuses. We have excellent players but have not achieved anything yet. I have had enough of commentating on EUROs and World Cups for TV. It is time to be there again in person, high time."

If Belgium have untapped potential, the Netherlands have a sense of unfulfilled promise having bowed out of UEFA EURO 2012 at the group stage. That failure prompted Bert van Marwijk's resignation, and Van Gaal at 61 will attempt to show the leadership qualities that won him titles at AFC Ajax, FC Barcelona, AZ Alkmaar and FC Bayern Mnchen.

"I want to get to the World Cup as I have never been there yet," he said. "As club coach I have already won everything possible, but as national team coach I have not."

Unusually, Van Gaal has not conferred with Van Marwijk about his plans. "I have not spoken to him," said Van Gaal, who will be assisted by Danny Blind and Patrick Kluivert, both of whom played under him. "I want to start with a clean sheet. The chemistry is down to who is involved. I am a different person and my staff is almost completely new. I cannot judge by what happened at EURO 2012."

He should have a clearer view of his task after the derby. Since the sides first met on 30 April 1905, the Dutch have won 55 encounters to their neighbours' 40, with the Red Devils prevailing in the most recent match-up on 29 May 2004.

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by Doug Haller - Aug. 12, 2012 07:47 PM The Republic | azcentral.com

For most of his adult life, almost for as long as he can remember, Dennis Erickson has been on a football field in August, preparing, teaching, coaching the sport that has given him so much.

On a recent summer day, however, Erickson is driving in Idaho, running errands, wondering what he'll do next.

"It's very strange," Erickson said by phone. "I've been doing it for 40-some years as a coach, 40-some years doing one thing and now all of a sudden it's not there. It's strange. Really strange."

Nine months have passed since Erickson lost his job at Arizona State. Practically a day doesn't go by when the football coach doesn't wonder just what the hell happened. How a promising 6-2 start spiraled out of control, costing him his job, forcing the Sun Devils to go another direction with Todd Graham.

"I really don't have any answers," Erickson said. "We're sitting there 6-2, we have a great recruiting class coming in and then things go backward on us. But the bottom line is, I'm in charge, and when you lose four in a row like that, nothing good is going to happen. That's just how the game is. You got to win games, and we didn't win enough."

Hired to take the Sun Devils to a championship level, Erickson went 31-31 in five seasons. The Sun Devils went to two bowl games, but finished with a winning record just once, Erickson's first season.

This isn't the first time Erickson's been out of work. In 2005, after going 2-14 with the San Francisco 49ers, he was fired and didn't coach the next season. But that was different.

"It wasn't as bad because I knew I was going to get back in it the next year," Erickson said.

This time, his coaching future doesn't look as promising.

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LONDON - Most-decorated Olympian Michael Phelps, 27, is thinking about improving his golf game and travelling. Gold medallist Victoria Pendleton, 31, is looking forward to getting married and doing "normal stuff." Misty Elizabeth May-Treanor, 35, is carting her beach volleyball gold medal home to focus on family.

As the London Games come to an end, some 30-odd retiring Olympians face the daunting question what's next?

For world-class athletes who have focused their lives on training, their next Olympian task has no direct path: Readjusting to a routine outside competitive sports and creating a new life that may or may not involve the limelight.

The challenges have given rise to a small field of advisers who specialize in helping retiring athletes cope with what can be an abrupt change.

"These people have a strong Olympic identity; they see themselves only as athletes. Unless they have good friendships and connections outside of sport, it can be quite painful," says Misha Botting, a sports psychologist at the SportScotland Institute. "Most experience a low-mood state after the games because it's such an exciting event."

As gold medallists , Phelps, Pendleton and May-Treanor have endorsement and coaching possibilities far beyond most top-level athletes, thousands of whom will be leaving London without a medal to gild their careers.

Some retiring athletes can suffer depression, according to retired Olympic gymnast Craig Heap, although he told The Associated Press that he was "quite pleased" when he stopped competing at 29.

"I was looking forward to my retirement. I had achieved my best and was looking to start another chapter of my life," said Heap, now 39.

Going back to a normal life may run more smoothly for athletes with a day job. But for those who have never worked, the task might be more challenging. It's here that self-described "performance lifestyle advisers" can help them develop careers outside the sporting world.

"We go through their future plan of career, their skills," said Gary Penn, an adviser with the English Institute of Sport. "We look at their CVs (resumes), help them apply for work. Sometimes we do mock interviews for potential jobs."

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Jason Lee held the most emotionally charged team meeting of his life yesterday morning. He could not contain his tears as he read out a message from a group of disadvantaged teenagers, who put an Olympic medal into its proper perspective.

Thirty children from the sink estates of Tower Hamlets, who have formed themselves into a group named the Fre Flyers, have been mentored by Lee and his GB men's hockey squad over the past two years.

"Thank you for sharing your lives and values with us" they wrote. "Thank you for teaching us about teamwork, respect, and never giving up. Thank you for staying together, and always striving to be the best."

No further team talk was required. Lee successfully lobbied officials to get the children tickets for the bronze medal match against Australia, whose 3-1 win lacked the traumatic impact of Thursday's 9-2 semi-final defeat by Holland.

Everyone dies a little when they lose at the sharp end of an Olympic tournament. Lee's men had a mere 44 hours to recover from that Dutch defeat, which appeared to unravel seven years' work.

No one knew better the challenge facing them than the man who ultimately inflicted further pain, Australian coach Ric Charlesworth.

He is the Renaissance Man of modern sport, having punctuated a stellar coaching career, in hockey, cricket and Australian Rules football, with spells as a politician and surgeon.

Charlesworth admitted: "I feel for the GB team. The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled."

Charlesworth empathised with Lee's task. The GB squad, conditioned to understanding their responsibilities to one another, and the sport as a whole, had nowhere to hide.

"There was a lot of grieving, which we encouraged out into the open as quickly as possible," their performance director David Faulkner said. "We had to confront it, manage it, and change the mind set."

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Former college basketball three-point sensation Anthony Cooper has been named the new Corsairs Assistant Coach for the Santa Monica College Mens Basketball team this fall.

I am excited to learn from Coach Jerome Jenkins, Cooper said. He has a wealth of knowledge and is highly respected in the basketball community. Hes been successful on the court at the JC and Division 1 level, but what Ive noticed most is how great of a motivator and mentor he is. The kids really respond to him on and off the court. The way he inspires young men to do better in life is what every coach aspires to do.

Before starting his coaching career, Cooper learned the game of basketball as a point-guard for Merrill F. West High School in the Bay area. During his junior year, he led his team to the league championship and earned First-Team All League honors in 1995 and 1996. Cooper was also inducted to the Tri-Valley Scholastic Black Sports Hall of Fame in 1996 for his tremendous skills on the basketball court.

In 1997, he went on to attend Orange Coast Community College where he continued to play and dominated from three-point range finishing third over all in the schools history for three-pointers made. He also set an Orange County record for three-pointers made in a game against Saddleback College shooting 10 for 13 from behind the arc.

After his success at Orange Coast, Cooper transferred to California State University-Hayward in 2001, where he majored in Communications and kept playing basketball. His dominance behind the three-point line prevailed as he set a Cal Pac record for the highest single-season three-point percentage holder at 57 percent adding to his mantel of trophies earned in college.

Following his college basketball days, Cooper decided to step away from basketball and used his communications degree he earned at Cal State to land a job in TV production working for CBS, Fox, E!, and Americas Funniest Home Videos.

For the next 10 years Coopers television career grew, but he found himself missing the game of basketball.

He still played regularly and caught himself always talking about it amongst his peers and watching highlights.

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I was 20 when I heard the words: All it takes is a little confidence. I was a college girl, sitting in a theater watching The Sting.

I heard the dialogue, but missed the point.

Now, years later, Ive spent two weeks watching other girls tiny gymnasts, beautiful swimmers and thrilling judo experts twisting, splashing and pounding their way to gold.

Throughout the 2012 Summer Olympics, which end today, newscasters have spoken about the fruit of Title IX and the role of women in sports.

Every twist of Gabby Douglas body has been analyzed, and the descriptions of the graceful strokes of Missy Franklin have lasted far longer than the 2 minutes and 4.06 seconds she took to set a world record.

Sure, its all about the training, the science and the art of coaching these youngsters to their amazing physical feats. While we Americans have rejected the Chinese model of locking athletes away in authoritarian sports camps, our nations method of producing champions is demonstrably successful.

The key to the success these young American women and young men have achieved in London is more than determination, strength, skill and luck. It also consists of a gift that surpasses any other gift one person can give to another.

Confidence or the lack of it is something that expresses itself when we compare ourselves to others.

I lacked confidence when I was a young woman because I never felt as smart as my siblings, as pretty as my classmates or as popular as the cheerleaders who were the queens of my small-town Texas high school.

My comparisons changed a little when I received a gift. My English teacher held up something I had done as an example of good writing. You may disagree with her now, but I was the happiest thing in bell-bottom pants and platform shoes that day. She had given me confidence.

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MONTREAL - The WTA Tour is one of the worlds pre-eminent womens sports franchises.

Yet it remains, on many levels, a mans world.

One notable area is on the coaching side; youd be hard-pressed to name half-a-dozen pro players who have female coaches.

With so many former players around the game, its surprising more women havent gone that route. Certainly their male counterparts are legion on both the WTA and ATP Tours.

Why?

But for many reasons, its just more difficult.

Its tougher for women to work their way up the coaching ranks, and the pool is tiny to begin with.

Given the travel required to coach a professional player, coaches who put off starting a family during their playing careers would have to put it off even longer. And many are worn down by the grind when they hang up their racquets.

And, even in the 21st century, many female players still prefer to be coached by men. In many cases, it is their fathers. If that seems a little out of the Stone Age, being coached by a woman still remains out-of-the-box thinking and athletes, in general, tend to stick with the status quo.

I enjoy it, passing along the experience I acquired as a player, and what Ive learned in my new job as a coach, because it really is a whole new trade that Ive learned. Its not because you were a good player that youll make a good coach, said former world No. 3 Nathalie Tauziat of France, who works with rising Canadian Genie Bouchard. I think there are things you can say to a woman you cant say to a man. (Bouchard) and I dont share everything, but Im sure there are things she wouldnt say to a male coach.

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