On Friday the College of Charleston announced that head coach Doug Wojcik had completed his coaching staff, hiring former Kent State assistant Jordan Mincy.

Mincy, who spent the last two seasons at his alma mater working for Rob Senderoff, joins Amir Abdur-Rahim and Ryan Freeberg on staff.

Jordan came highly-recommended and is a young superstar in the coaching profession, Wojcik said in a statement released by the school. He is a high-energy and positive young coach who has a lot of experience being as young as he is.

Jordan was a successful player at the Division I level and comes from a great basketball family from Memphis, Tennessee. His positive outlook, approach and philosophy in life will really lend well to what we are trying to achieve here at the College of Charleston.

While Mincys recruiting capabilities are mentioned in the release its important to also take note of what he was able to do in working with the Kent State guards.

On that 2010-11 team three guards earned postseason recognition from the Mid-American Conference.

Michael Porrini was named MAC Defensive Player of the Year, Carlton Guyton won MAC Sixth Man of the Year and Rodriquez Sherman was a second team All-MAC selection.

That could bode well for returnees Andrew Lawrence and Anthony Stitt, who were two of Charlestons top four scorers last season.

With Antwaine Wiggins graduating the Cougars will need more production from their guards (as well as forward Adjehi Baru), and while young it looks as if Mincy has the resume of a coach able to push them to new heights.

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A series of misfortunes that have befallen James Bonesteel havent dampened his enthusiasm for life or the optimism that guides his path in believing things will always get better if you try.

To the young girls of ABCD girls softball team Precision Vision, Bonesteel is affectionately known as Coach Jimbo.

Bonesteels story is one of courage and inspiration that shows any obstacle placed in your path is never too big to get around if you believe in yourself.

A New York native, Bonesteel has lived in Nebraska for 18 years. Currently, he is a resident of the Crossroad Center shelter in Hastings, but he operates his own handyman business that provides him the beginning of self-sufficiency.

I am hard of hearing and grew up that way, Bonesteel said. But I also grew up challenging people who said I couldnt be a police officer and anything else I wanted to be because of that.

He worked as a police officer for 20 years in various jobs, including chief of police in Clarks, until he decided to pursue a different career path.

With the situation I am going through, as I am homeless right now, people look at me and say, Wow, how can you stay so positive and be motivated in coaching these girls with the situation you are in right now? Bonesteel said.

While some may say they would have walked away from life and hid in their depression if they found themselves in Bonesteels shoes, his response is simple and direct: You cant do that. You have to have a heart.

You have to be strong, and you have to be positive, he said.

After leaving a career in law enforcement, Bonesteel was involved in a work-related accident that resulted in a spinal injury from his neck to his tailbone, causing him to lose mobility and putting him in a wheelchair. That accident occurred six years ago when he was working as a trailer mechanic.

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By Jennifer Kotila Staff Writer

DASSEL, COKATO, ADRIAN, MN As a young kid with a speech impediment, Jason Olson took part in activities in which he had to get up in front of people and talk, which made him feel more comfortable.

Those activities led to a passion for speech and one-act play, activities which he has coached at Adrian High School in southwestern Minnesota for 10 years since joining the staff as a social studies teacher.

Olson recently won recognition nationally for his coaching skills, receiving the National Federation of State High School Associations Speech, Debate, and Theatre Educator of the Year Award.

Recipients are nominated by their peers, and the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) chooses the winner from Minnesota.

I think what has given me the passion for speech and one-act is the confidence I got as a child from taking part in these activities, Olson said.

He credits the teachers and instructors he had while in high school and college for igniting his passion.

It started at Dassel-Cokato, when I had amazing teachers like Dave and Linda Metcalf in theatre, and Mike Worcester and Mari Pokornowski in speech, Olson said. I still consider them my mentors.

After his passion was ignited, students continued to fan the flames.

[Students] are the ones dealing with six classes a day, homework, jobs, and sometimes other school activities, Olson said. But they still find time to want to be good (at speech and one-act), and that is really half the battle. They are passionate, so, I am.

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Head coach Scott Milanovich looks ahead with main camp opening Sunday.

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Using a 16-mm projector, Scott Milanovichs father Gary would hang a sheet in the attic above the garage of their home in Butler, Pa., and show him game film of the high school football team he coached.

Even at age 7, Milanovich was fascinated and developing a passion for the game he would one day play as a star quarterback for the University of Maryland Terrapins.

I didnt understand it all, but he would teach me. It was in black and white. You could rewind the plays back and forth, Milanovich recalled. I was the ball boy. I was at every practice.

He would later pass for 2,800 yards and 32 touchdowns in three seasons for the Butler high school team.

There were 7,000 people at our games. To me it was 100,000 fans, he said. It was an event you wanted to be part of.

On Sunday, Milanovich will step on the field at the University of Torontos Mississauga campus as the 42nd head coach in the 139-year history of the Argonauts. Its the first day of the main training camp. On June 13, theyll battle the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in a pre-season game at Ivor Wynne Stadium.

Milanovich, 39, spent five seasons in Montreal, four as offensive coordinator. He helped develop one of the CFLs most potent offences, with the Alouettes and QB Anthony Calvillo winning Grey Cups in 2009 and 2010. Now, the rookie head coach must turn a last-place team into a contender with former Edmonton star passer Ricky Raydirecting an offence he designed.

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Crisci Chan

CLAY art teacher Crisci Chan enjoys giving life to the mundane. And she has opened up another world to children, a world of favourite cartoon characters.

Chan has, in her own way, moulded the future of these children by developing their creativity. Her classes at her studio in Paramount Garden, Petaling Jaya, reverberates with the ooohs and aaahs of children, who marvel that at the turn of their fingers, characters such as Smurfs, Angry Birds, Tony Tony Chopper and Hello Kitty come to life.

Chan says that a child who had no interest in the art at all became totally engrossed after he learnt that he could make miniatures of the chocolate cakes he likes.

Another, an autistic, began to communicate with Chan after she gave special attention to the child and earned his confidence.

These are some of the extraordinary encounters I had with children through my art, says Chan who gave up her promising marketing career in Singapore last year to promote clay art.

Chan teaches her art at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, kindergartens and shopping malls and also offers one-to-one coaching.

Clay art is one way of helping children develop the brain. Art trains us to think outside the box. It helps children to understand concepts with greater ease and achieve better grades, says Chan.

I loved making things with my hands ever since I was a child. When I was about 15, I made a miniature of my home using cards and balsa wood. I still have the model. Art is not limited to 2-D, it is much more fun doing 3-D art.

Her mother was instrumental in helping Chan develop an interest in art. She sent me to art tuition every Sunday when I was little until I was 17.

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OKLAHOMA CITYIt is like a game of chess with real, live human pieces, a move that leads to a countermove and men always trying to anticipate the next two or three or more moves that the opponent will make.

It is difficult and stressful and all thats at stake is a season as Scott Brooks of the Oklahoma City Thunder and Gregg Popovich of the San Antonio Spurs try to figure out what the other will do in the NBAs Western Conference final.

It was said early in the best-of-seven series that Popovich was playing chess while Brooks was playing checkers. It was a cute oversimplification and a nifty throwaway line, not to mention dead wrong.

Its an intricate business figuring out what might work and putting your players in position to assure that it does. As criticized as Brooks was after the Thunder fell behind 2-0, he was lauded when Oklahoma City clawed back into the series with a Game 3 victory.

Brooks decision to use the 6-foot-7 Thabo Sefolosha to defend San Antonios 6-foot-2 point guard Tony Parker worked wonders, as did the move to switch a lot of high screen-and-rolls and make life difficult for Manu Ginobili once he got the ball.

Well, there were changes, said Ginobili. Its hard to tell which one influenced the game the most. But they had a switch more on me, and it worked in that game. So hopefully we make them pay a little bit more in the next one.

And thats where the move-countermove coaching game plays out with the most intrigue. Brooks made an adjustment, shifting the focus onto the Spurs to come up with something new.

We went to dinner (between Games 3 and 4), and we talked a lot about what happened and how we can improve, but players things, said Ginobili.

Yeah, we thought about some things, which Im not going to tell you guys.

It wasnt exactly a stroke of genius teams have been using taller defenders to crowd Parker for years but Brooks alteration brought kudos.

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My grandfather once described my aunt and uncle as "two people who spent their entire life taking care of a bird."

Grandpa had a knack for those kinds of unflattering insights. If I ever see him in that, you know, other world, I would not be surprised if he dismissed my wife, Julie, and me as "two people who spent their adult life trying to nudge their tennis game a notch above mediocre."

Mercifully, Grandpa wasn't courtside for my spectacular 1987 come-from-behind doubles victory in the Men's C Division of our local Tracy Austin Doubles Tennis Tournament, uh, against a 9-year-old boy and his big-hearted dad. My 40-year-old partner and I made a strategic decision that achieving victory by relentlessly hitting every ball to the 9-year-old boy was the lesser of two evils.

But I have come a long way since then. Starting any sport later in life is always a huge disadvantage. When I was growing up in the '50s and '60s in a small Midwestern town, folks didn't respect tennis the way they did, say, football, hockey, boxing or baseball. Tennis had a bad rap as the sport for "rich sissies" and baseball ruled as our national pastime.

Nonetheless, both sports involve the same basic activity, hitting a ball with a club.

The only difference is that tennis players actually move around to hit the ball.

Baseball's much higher status, back then, solely stems from the risk of getting beaned in the head by a hard ball.

Plotting my

He looked me over with a condescending smile: "I just told a father it was way too late for his 13-year-old daughter to begin tennis with any hope of turning pro. It takes at least 10 years and 1,000 hours to develop high-level skills, and pre-puberty is the best time for developing certain capabilities. I redirected the family to badminton, where the numbers are a little better."

A career as badminton pro? How embarrassing. We joined the Peninsula Racquet Club, which at the time should have been called the Peninsula Racquet and Drinking Club.

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01-06-2012 13:19 Toddler life coach Bobby Winkmeyer tells it like it is.

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01-06-2012 20:13 Life strategy coach Dieter Pauwels talks with Christine Buck on KPLR11 News at Noon on how to help others. His focus is on building connection through genuine compassion, creating clarity by asking powerful questions and a commitment to take action. For more life coaching tips or schedule a complimentary coaching introduction with one of our expert life and career coaches, visit our site http

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by Carlton D. White cwhite@mdjonline.com The Marietta Daily Journal

So, when comparing such schools as Arizona, Army, California, Florida, Maryland, Navy, North Carolina State, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Texas and Life, which one of these schools just doesnt belong?

The answer, of course, is Life, but dont let the small private chiropractic school of roughly 2,500 students fool you. The Running Eagles have every reason to belong with those other institutions.

Thats because Life will be competing against them in the USA Sevens Collegiate Rugby Championships Invitational on Saturday and Sunday at PPL Park in the Philadelphia suburb of Chester, Pa.

Fifteen of the 16 teams participating were invited to the event. Life had to outlast 31 other teams including Miami, Pittsburgh, Georgia, Stanford and Missouri among others in a CRC qualifier of the Las Vegas Invitational in February to earn the final berth to the championship tournament.

Life won the inaugural USA Rugby Mens College Sevens national championship in December, prior to its Las Vegas Invitational championship two months later, so another title

Sunday would give the program three championships in its first season.

Our sevens team works very hard, said Dan Payne, Lifes director of rugby. We have a great coaching staff and guys that really go after it. That combination has been incredible.

A privately run event sanctioned by USA Rugby, this weekends tournament will feature 16 college teams competing in 38 matches over two days. There will be seven players per team for all matches, playing on the same-sized field as a traditional 15-man-per-side rugby match.

Teams will be split into four pools, and they will play two seven-minute halves.

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