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Utah head coach Morgan Scalley revealed during Saturday’s College GameDay broadcast that a conversation with Nick Saban about defensive schemes left him questioning his understanding of football.
Scalley reportedly recalled Saban criticizing his defensive approach during a discussion about Cover 3 coverage, telling him, “Son, that’s not Cover 3. That’s three defensive backs watching a touchdown from different angles.”
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To move forward, swimmers have to move water backward.
To move water backward, they need to use a big surface area.
The more of their arm or their leg they can get facing backward, the more effective they’ll be at moving water.
It is one of THE most important skills swimmers can master to create as much speed as possible.
How can we help swimmers learn how to create more propulsion with a bigger surface area?
One of my favorite strategies is using different hand postures.
By closing the fist or holding a paddle upside down, swimmers have to learn to use the forearm to create more propulsion.
More forearm usage means more surface area.
Add some speed or stroke count expectations and swimmers are going to learn fast.
When you are looking for information & ways to get better, find experts with experience’s who are welling to share experience’s good and bad. Stay away from influencer’s/ marketers who misuse science terms and claim outlandish successes. Simply look for substance over style.
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It's Gameday‼️ Week 10 Matchup at Palm Beach Central📍7:00 PM Kickoff ⏳
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Happy birthday to St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, who was born on this day in 1491!*
Learn more about his life: ow.ly/hv7A50Lir9W
*While we don't know for sure what day he was born, he was born in 1491, and some sources place it on Oct. 23.
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The baseline for effective freestyle is swimming level on the surface of the water.
If swimmers can’t swim level, they’re going to be creating a lot more drag than they need to, which is going to make swimming a lot slower and harder than it needs to be.
To make matters worse, if swimmers aren’t level, they aren’t going to be stable.
That means they’re going to be using their limbs to create stability.
If the limbs are being used to create stability, they’re not going to be used for creating speed.
Help swimmers get level on the surface with zero effort, and they’ll be ready to do everything else that matters.
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For my old friends at @BaseballAmerica, I compiled the sizes of each team’s scouting staff.
Note that many teams frequently renowned for their technology and analytics (Dodgers, Rays, Brewers) also have some of the largest scouting staffs in MLB.
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From @MLBNetwork: The Rays (80 scouts) and Brewers (64) have two of the largest scouting departments in baseball. The Brewers (46 employees) and Rays (39) both rank in the top 7 in MLB in largest analytics departments.
Spending to win doesn't necessarily involve top free agents.
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DL Hall lived in about 15 different houses growing up.
On his days off in Milwaukee, he builds houses for families buying their first one.
Friday night he pitches in the World Series.
Start in Valdosta, Georgia. His grandfather Carlo Beam owned a plumbing company and so did his father, Stevie Hall. He started working for them at ten.
He puts it like this.
"So I went from the tool-getter at age 10 to, by the time I was done, being able to build whole bathrooms."
His senior year at Valdosta High School he got out of class at eleven in the morning and went straight to his grandfather's job site.
He did that until the day Baltimore took him 21st overall in 2017.
Here is why he does it.
"I lived in, like, 15 different houses growing up, so I'm super, super connected to that cause."
"Sometimes I looked at other people and I thought, 'Dang, I wish I had that one house I called home my whole life.'"
Adam McCalvy at MLB.com is the one who got him to say that.
He built a Habitat for Humanity house in the Harambee neighborhood in 2024. He was back again this May, framing and signing the first wall of a new house. The one year he missed it, he was on the injured list the whole spring.
"I've had a bunch of different houses, so being able to give somebody a steady place to call home and go to that same place every night, it's pretty special to me."
He did something else nobody asked him to do.
He grew his hair long for years and then cut fifteen inches of it off for a group that makes wigs for people with cancer. He had tried once before, but nobody at the barbershop knew how it was done and the hair ended up on the floor.
So he grew it back out for two more years and did it properly.
The baseball has not been easy. His elbow went in 2021. His knee in 2024. A lat strain cost him the start of 2025 and an oblique cost him the end of it. As of last spring he had never thrown 100 professional innings in a season.
This year he went 4 and 0 with a 1.91 earned run average in 47 games.
In the playoffs he has not given up a run. In Game 3 against the Dodgers he came in with the game hanging and struck out Kiké Hernández and Tommy Edman, and the Brewers swept Los Angeles out of the series.
He is not the only Brewer who does the Habitat work. Brandon Woodruff has been on those builds for six years. And the fifty thousand dollars behind this year's house came from the team foundation, not from Hall. What he gives is a day and a pair of hands.
But he is the one who never had the one house.
He lived in about 15 of them. He builds them now.
And he made his major league debut against the Tampa Bay Rays. On Friday night he faces them again, in a World Series.
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Steve Nash admits there were moments when he didn’t feel confident in himself.
One of basketball’s greatest players experienced self-doubt. What stands out is what he says next:
“I got over those moments quickly.”
Now that’s a skill worth developing…
Players often judge their confidence by how frequently they doubt themselves. But a more useful question is: how do you respond when doubt arrives?
Does it change your body language? Stop you demanding the ball? Leave you hesitating on the next possession?
In my performance system, I strive to help players access evidence of their capabilities. Specific memories of effective actions. Challenges overcome. Progress made through practice.
Evidence you can draw upon when your confidence dips.
Above all, understand that you don’t have to settle every doubt before your next game. You can carry some uncertainty and still commit to executing confidently.
Nash’s words offer a useful ambition: keep finding your way back to believing—and behaving like a player who believes.
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My latest book, Compete, helps players to execute confidently even when they feel low in confidence…
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OTD in 1964 Peter Snell became a triple Olympic champion with victory in the 1500m in Tokyo 🏃
Having already secured golds over 800m at Rome 1960 and at Tokyo 1964, the New Zealander triumphed in the metric mile with a mark of 3:38.1 ⚡️
By winning the 800m/1500m double in Japan, Snell became the first man to achieve the feat at the Olympics since 1920 🇯🇵
🥇 Peter Snell 🇳🇿 3:38.1
🥈 Josef Odložil 🇨🇿 3:39.6
🥉 John Davies 🇳🇿 3:39.6

























