Chasing Dreams - blog

At seventeen, I've spent most of my life on soccer fields learning how to control my emotions under pressure. As a varsity athlete, I know what it takes to stay focused when you're down a goal, to manage frustration when a call goes against you, to channel anxiety into performance. These mental skills, what sports psychologists call "emotional regulation", are as fundamental to athletics as any physical technique. What strikes me is how rarely these same skills are taught in

Written by Paul Anglade: Community is an intricate part of professional sports teams, especially in Cincinnati, Ohio, where the...

Written by Paul Anglade

My earliest memories are from my summers at my grandparents’ house in the Dominican Republic. As soon as school let out, our family...

Link To Article: https://russellstreetreport.com/2023/05/30/street-talk/education-in-sports/ In the fast-paced and physically demanding...

Link to Article: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/sep/01/the-main-lesson-i-was-given-as-a-college-football-star-sports-trump-academics In my four years with Purdue’s football team, I tore ligaments, broke bones, lifted four times my weight a hundred times over, studied football more than my academics, rose before the sun, and stayed up long past its fall in the hope of making it to the NFL. I wasn’t the only one. Everyone on the roster – around 85 other young men – mad

Link to Article: https://www.edweek.org/education/how-education-reform-ended-up-on-nba-jerseys/2020/08 When the National Basketball...

Link To Article: https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/gordon-hayward-education-reform-jersey-controversy-boston-celtics-nba/ BOSTON (CBS)...