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Articles about retired athletes (0-50 of 64)
- Who Did Tiger Cheat?
By: Jimm Hughey | - I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
~Candice Bergen, Actor
A recent Sports News headline read, "Nordegren Signs Contract Extension with Tiger Woods."
The article, speaking as if this were a sports team, states that Elin Nordegren, the wife of Tiger Woods the golf pro, "has agreed to a contract extension to remain married to ...
Tags: Tiger Woods, cheat, Elin Woods, unfaithful, relationship, trust, love, money
- The Stories Of Championship Trophies
By: sanjai singania | - NCAA Basketball Championship
The NCAA Championship trophy was first raised up high in 1952. This walnut plank that is embellished with a metal NCAA seal and olive branches replaced a silver cup that had previously gone to the winners. The walnut plank only valued at $500 or so.
This understated trophy isnt the only thing champions get for winning. The morning after the last game, the National Association of Basketball Coaches presents the winners with a much larger a ...
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- The Stories Of Championship Trophies
By: Chris Sargentelli | - The University of North Carolina picked up another NCAA mens basketball trophy last year, which will make a nice addition to the schools trophy case. The adorned wooden plank is one of the more recognizable awards in all of sports, but whats the story behind it? What does it mean? Heres the scoop on the NCAA championship hardware, plus the cups, statues, and trophies other athletes strive to claim.
NCAA Basketball Championship
The NCAA Championship trophy was first ...
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- Relating To Success
By: Annette Huygens-Tholen | - How are you relating to the people in your life? As a performance and results coach, working with a variety of clients from sporting teams to non-sporting individuals I have extracted five (5) themes that influence healthy relationships, both business and personal.
1. Take Responsibility
When it comes to maintaining friendships, communication and getting along well with people it is important that everyone takes 100% responsibility. Its too easy to blame other pe ...
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- Recreating That Locker Room Feeling
By: Annette Huygens-Tholen | -
One of the things mentioned by retired athletes about what they miss about sport is the locker-room camaraderie that sport provides. As an athlete you hang around a supportive sporting community with like-minded friends and colleagues. Everyone shares a common objective and passion in life. Its not uncommon for sporting relationships to extend beyond the sporting field to personal life and this can result in an athletes life revolving around sport and its contacts. ...
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- Build A Dream Team For Success Beyond Sport
By: Annette Huygens-Tholen | - Athletes are used to having all kinds of people with various skills supporting them to become the best they can be, to fulfill the dream. It is no different in life beyond sportretired athletes dont have to do it all on their own. They can benefit from creating their own dream team to help get a new business off the ground, gain ground in an unfamiliar industry, manage projects within a corporation or to enjoy the lifestyle they desire. Here are the type of people I want on my team to c ...
Tags: retired athletes, beyond sports, athlete transition, group success, team building
- Retired Athletes Lose More Than The Game
By: Annette Huygens-Tholen | - On retiring from sport an athlete may set new goals, establish a new career but they may still miss an important key. This key can be the difference between a successful transition or a loss of purpose and drive. I'm talking about the loss of significance, an important human need as discussed here.
All humans have certain basic needs. According to Abraham Maslow (1943 paper A Theory of Human Motivation) there is a hierarchy of needs, in order of importance, as follows:
Tags: retired athletes, athlete transition, beyond sport, self-motivation
- Has Arthritis Caused You Constant Pain And Suffering?
By: Eugene Smith | - Arthritis has caused disabilty in thousands of people worlwide. This health crises has affected indivuduals old, young and middle aged. Which each passing year the population of joint pain victims grows larger.
Joint pain is generally an unexplained soreness in the joints and muscles not necessarily related to any type of injury. It is usually worst at night, causing discomfort and lack of sleep. This condition is also known as arthritis or arthralgia and can last for weeks, months ...
Tags: Joint pain 1, arthritis2, arthralgia3, joint health 4, surgery 5, disibilty 6, cartilage 7, physical therapy 8, cox-2 inhibitors 9, cortisone shot 10.
- Athletic, Tennis Court & Stadium Lighting
By: Beth Guide | - Every sport played at night requires lighting. That is without exception! People need to see the games, as they always have since Roman times, and quality sport lights provide them with optimal visibility regardless of their positions in the stands. Sport lighting also meets the very real need for player safety.
Since Roman times, the losing team no longer dies, so avoiding injury is paramount to every sporting event, and sport lighting fixtures and bulbs provide the safest and m ...
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- Wwe Tickets- Where Are They Now: Bob Backlund
By: Brent Warnken | - Many WWE fans remember Bob Backlund as the scrappy, ginger-haired, All-American boy who defeated the superstar Bill Graham for the WWE Championship in 1978. Others remember him as the guy who use to challenge fans to recite every United States President in chronological order. He was born in Minnesota in 1949. The future WWE wrestler was a natural athlete who excelled in football, wrestling, and track.
He attended North Dakota State University, where he played football and wrestl ...
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- The Craziest Adrenaline Junkies The World Has Seen
By: Yossarian Fisher | - There are numerous ways to get your juices pumping. If you dont like the idea of a direct electric shock to your heart but youre searching for natural ways to elicit a similar experience, engaging in extreme sports is the way to go. However if youre not well versed to these sports, do not bother trying and leave it to the professional adrenaline junkies.
Whether its snowboarding, skating, skiing, or surfing, there are people who put their bodies at ...
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- Hgh Pills, Shots, Sprays
By: Jim Harcy | - HGH Human Growth Hormone was first discovered in 1956 and its structure was identified in 1972. It was extracted from cadavers, sold at very high prices, and injected with needles into the body. In mid-1998 the 191 chain HGH molecule was genetically engineered in the laboratory. This is available to us now through a costly doctor's pharmaceutical prescription, and secondly at a reasonable price through a homeopathic HGH oral spray. The third therapy alternative would be Secretogogues and Stacked ...
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- Are You Looking For Jordan Fusion Shoes?
By: Ron Milu | - Michael Jordan is the epitome of superstars promoting sports gear. He has single handedly opened the door for hundreds of other athletes to follow in his footprints and sign huge endorsement contracts. There were others before him like Joe Namath, Walter Payton, and even John McEnroe to a lesser extent but no one has had the success that Michael has had in promoting the use of his shoes (even Hanes for that matter).
Since he has long since retired we are still seeing the sales o ...
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- The All New Exhaustive Range Of Nike Shoes
By: Andrew W. May | - Year 1987 saw the launch of a new line of Nike Shoe. This new line of shoes that shook the world with its innovatively advance air sole technology was Nike Air Max. Since its introduction lot many changes have been done to the original model.
The campaign started with the punch line: A little less hurt. The campaign made a strong appeal in the minds of the people with using athletes in the promotional campaigns.
Most of the shoe models use a cushioned heel at the bo ...
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- Choosing A Menopause Solution
By: Francine Cook | - An Yahoo search for natural menopause product will give back an assortment of options. What comes back is menopause supplements, estrogen creams, a progesterone cream, herbal remedies, and plant estrogens, suggestions and more. Choosing the appropriate product for your special combination of symptoms could entail a fair amount of investigative effort. In this article we take a look at several of these items and the symptoms that they could allay.
A menopause vitamin ...
Tags: Menopause, Treatment, Relief, Solution
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- When The Cheering Stops
By: Christopher Carter | - Judith Bokman founded the Standardbred Retirement Foundation to save retired harness racing horses from the slaughterhouse.
After years in harness racing, Judith Bokman could no longer ignore the cruel fate that awaited many horses when they could no longer compete. Although some went on to new careers as recreational or work horses, many healthy animals were doomed to the slaughterhouse.
Bokman rescued her first horse in 1989 when she witnessed a trainer she knew s ...
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- Boot Camps The Best Way To Reduce Flab And Get Fit
By: Mira Williams | - The basic reason for popularity of fitness boot camps is that they are designed in such a fashion that the participants achieve total workout in a very less time. In half an hour, these participants undergo drill exercises, jumping, running, and other such exercises which increase overall body metabolism rate. This greatly helps in reducing calories and weight, while also augmenting cardiac fitness. These exercises can be performed by anyone, from a child to elderly person to an athlete. Ther ...
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- Does Your Fitness Regimen Need A Boost?
By: DR BOB PELLEGRINE | - OK all you Jocks here is what you have been looking for!
Good solid factual information about products that will actually improve your workout, whether in the gym or doing some other active sport.
Lets start with something basic that everyone who participates in an active aerobic or anaerobic activity needs. What's that you ask? A good high quality protein supplement.
What follows is a list of some really great products that I have found ...
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- The Madden Curse - Why Brett Favre May Be The First To Break It!
By: Ken White | - To all the uninformed out there, the football season has a curse lurking over its shoulder. A lot of athletes refuse to acknowledge it, but it does exist. The evidence is too overwhelming. Of course we are talking about the Madden Curse.
What is the so-called "Madden Curse" you might ask? Well the madden curse is what happens to whatever athlete is displayed on the cover of the newest edition of the hugely popular John Madden football video game series. What happens? Quite simply, ...
Tags: Brett favre, John Madden, Madden '09, madden football video game
- Teleseminars: How I Made $25k An Hour Working From Home With One Employee
By: Alex Mandossian | - If you could reach hundreds of customers in the same time it took you to reach just one, youd jump at the opportunity, right? And if you could make more money in an hour than elite professional athletes or Fortune 500 CEOs, youd want to know how, wouldnt you?
Its possible. Ive done it and without cold calling or working 18-hour days, seven days a week. And you can do it too, by embracing Teleseminar training.
Tags: Alex Mandossian, Teleseminar, tele-training, internet marketing, internet marketing strategies, information product
- New Teen Craze - Healthy To The Max?
By: Michael Harvey | - A green powdered tree leaf eagerly sought out by students and athletes nationwide is neither smoked nor illegal. Used to lose weight, stay up late, cure acne, blow away hangovers, and enhance athletic performance, pure moringa leaf capsules are both safe and nutritious.
Moringa Zinga capsules are the newest craze on high school and college campuses across the nation, and it is a good thing too. The green powdered leaves from the moringa tree are totally organic and nutritious. Use ...
Tags: energy, acne, hangover, weight loss, study aid, athletic performance, steroids, performance enhancing
- Benefits Of Owning Your Own Business
By: Zach Thompson | - You may be one of the numerous groups looking for home filled-range business prospects. There are thousands of people functioning at home nowadays and a many of them are using their electronic computers to create money. The Internet has opened up a fresh marketplace to sell services and products worldwide.
You can be in control of your future and have a winning business even as operating at home. There are moms who would like to wait at home with youthful kids but still contribute ...
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- Selling Sports Memorabilia
By: Jim Brown | - The value of sports memorabilia has gone up over the years and if you have some that you may want to sell, you could potentially profit from it most especially if your items are sought after by collectors or are considered rare.
The first step in selling any sports memorabilia for that matter would be to have a qualified appraiser appraise the value of your memorabilia especially if you are unsure of its value or unaware of how the market is actually pricing such. You can ask for ...
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- Wheatgrass Is Fast Becoming The Most Widely Used Supplement
By: Garland Choate | - One of the most poplar herbs to come to light over recent years is wheatgrass, wheatgrass is now thought be the most widely used herbal supplement for many reasons. Peerless of the reasons is that is contains chlorophyll, this is mother natures most amazing health prompting nutrient.
Wheatgrass contains no less than 20 amino acids, several hundreds of different enzymes that cannot be found in any other food and over 90 other vitamins, minerals and nutrients. When taking a ...
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- The Confusion About Weightlifting, Bodybuilding, And Lifting Weights
By: Donovan Baldwin | - It is unfortunate, but true, that many people do not have a genuine understanding of the value of weight training as an important and effective part of any fitness or weight loss program.
This is due, at least in part, to a misunderstanding on the part of the public about three terms:
Weightlifting
Bodybuilding
Weight Training or Lifting Weights
Start talking about barbells, dumbbells, and "lifting weights" to most people ...
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- Nfl Players In The Business World
By: Martin Chase | - NFL players earn a lot of money and that makes NFL players a prime target for business people and con artists looking to make an easy buck. Every year NFL players are scammed out of tens of millions of dollars from business people and scam artists looking to acquire investment money to start a business. The reason for this is that NFL players are athletes and we are not well educated in business. That makes us easy targets.
I am one of the NFL players who has been scammed out of h ...
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- 9 Pioneers Of Fitness
By: Donovan Baldwin | - While not perfect, the following nine individuals are my choice for a short list of important pioneers in weight lifting, body building, aerobics, health, and fitness.
Eugen Sandow The Non Pareil (1867 - 1925) Born in Germany, Eugen Sandow has often been called "Father of Modern Bodybuilding". Like Charles Atlas, as a youth, Sandow was a great admirer of Greek and Roman statues depicting athletes and gladiators. Sandow is considered to be a pioneer in bodybuilding because he mea ...
Tags: weightlifting, bodybuilding, fitness, exercise, health, Charles Atlas, Richard Simmons
- The 5 Biggest Mistakes College Players Make When Trying To Get Into The Nfl
By: Martin Chase | - As a former NFL player I have inside knowledge as to what coaches are looking for when drafting college players. From my experience, here are the five biggest mistakes college players make that will hurt their chances of getting drafted into the NFL:
1. The biggest mistake by far is when college players think they are ready for the NFL and they enter the draft before they are a senior. The majority of college players are not ready physically or mentally to play in the NFL. By stay ...
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- Nfl Training Camp - This Is Where Football Begins
By: Martin Chase | - As a former NFL player, NFL training camp is where the real work begins, especially for rookies and un-drafted athletes who want to try and make a team.
Prior to training camp, you may have been on vacation or spending time with friends and family. But the fun is over the moment you are given your training camp room key. This is where the sweat and tears start. This is where nervous butterflies give you a constant uneasy feeling in your gut.
You start training camp ...
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- Nfl Players And Money
By: Martin Chase | - One of the questions people always ask me about being an NFL player is, what is it like making so much money at such a young age?
I have to say that it is very difficult to go from being young and having no money to being young and a millionaire because you do not know how to be financially responsible. It's just like winning the lottery, and as you know from reading about lottery winners, most lottery winners go broke within 10 years after winning the lottery. Well, it is not t ...
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- The Importance Of Being A Leader In Sports
By: Martin Chase | - During my NFL career, I learned that leadership is a trait that all athletes have deep inside of them. Unfortunately, I found that most players do not know how to apply their leadership skills. It is the inability to apply leadership that sets the regular NFL players apart from the true greats such as LaDainian Tomlinson, Marvin Harrison, Peyton Manning, and Brett Favre. These fine players are all strong leaders. It is their powerful leadership skills that inspire their teammates to come togethe ...
Tags: NFL, sports, leadership, football, Brett Favre, LaDainian Tomlinson, Marvin Harrison, Peyton Manning
- How Nfl Ego-maniacs Like Terrell Owens Are Hurting The Nfl
By: Martin Chase | - As a former NFL player, I know how players influence their teams both positively and negatively. What concerns me is the growing trend of players focusing on themselves instead of their team. This is having a negative effect on the NFL and even worse, it is having a negative effect on youth sports players who want to emulate the ego-maniac pro players.
As professional NFL football players, we all have different personalities. Most players have a positive and friendly personality a ...
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- How To Become An Nfl Player Part 3
By: Martin Chase | - In my first two articles on how to become an NFL player, I discussed the work you need to do to in the class room, the community, and how to take care of your body to increase your odds of becoming an NFL player. You can see these articles at my blog at http://mcsportsfan.blogspot.com.
In this article I am going to discuss the specific football drill skills you need to develop to make you look attractive to college football scouts. For maximum results, I recommend that you work on ...
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- Secrets Of Becoming An Nfl Player By An Nfl Player
By: Martin Chase | - Becoming an NFL player was my dream since I was in junior high school, and I was one of the lucky few who actually made it all the way to the NFL. I have played for the New York Giants, the New Orleans Saints, the Washington Redskins, the Baltimore Ravens, and the Jacksonville Jaguars.
My life in the NFL was a remarkable experience. However, getting to the NFL was very difficult. In this article I want to discuss a few of the mental hurdles a young athlete will go through if they ...
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- Soccer Camps And International Tours
By: Dana Bradley | - Golden opportunity comes to young up and coming soccer players in the form of many national and international soccer camps and tours which gives them the opportunity to learn from retired professionals including former World Cup stars. It also allows talent scouts to view the next generation of players and pre-pick their future stars.
The most popular of these tours takes players to Brazil. Brazil is considered the leader in training professional soccer players due to their five c ...
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- Andre Agassi Announces Retirement
By: Jonathon Hardcastle | - Arguably one of the most recognizable figures in the world of professional tennis, player Andre Agassi has announced that he will be retiring from the sport after the 2006 U.S. Open. Currently aged 36, Andre's tennis career has spanned 20 years. His career was a long-lasting one that saw him play on while other players of his age range retired. He was a true master of the sport, held in regards with Pete Sampras and Jim Courier.
Andre's career saw its first speck of glory when he ...
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- Seizing The Moment: The Reality Of Being In The Moment
By: Dr Leo Kady | - When you relax in the moment, you are priming the most creative part of your brain, the visualization center in the posterior part of the brain. You supercharge your creative thinking by turning on these visualization centers. It's not clear why that is, but the observation is right there in living Technicolor. When you relax in the moment, the PET scan lights these centers of visual thought. What scientists believe happens is that when we live entirely in the moment, we free up the brain to thi ...
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- Low Carbohydrate Diets
By: Donovan Baldwin | - Copyright 2006 Donovan Baldwin
Any diet program is going to have its fans and its detractors. Also, many diet plans may have good points and bad points, and the low carbohydrate diet is no exception.
WHAT IS A LOW CARBOHYDRATE DIET?
First of all, you are going to hear a lot of things called "low carbohydrate", the most famous of which is the Atkins diet. Other programs which do not claim to be low carb, such as the Nutrisystem weight loss program, a ...
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- Human Growth Hormone, Baseball, And Athletes
By: Michael Harvey | - When Jason Grimsley, relief pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks, had his home raided by Federal Agents in early June they were looking for Human Growth Hormone and other performance enhancing drugs. A lot of misinformation and negative assumptions were promulgated about HGH. Not only can you buy real HGH legally, over-the-counter, but also theres a big difference between growth hormone and steroids. The former is a firecracker, the latter an atomic bomb!
Baseball play ...
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- Moringa Leaf Powder - The World's Greatest Unknown Supplement
By: Michael Harvey | - There is no doubt that the pure Moringa Tree leaf is the source of incredible health benefits. It's the ultimate, natural, organic, energy and endurance health supplement. There are plenty of studies that describe these benefits and the pure, powdered, moringa leaf is the most potent part of the plant.
India's ancient tradition of ayurveda medicine sites 300 diseases that are treated with the leaves of the Moringa tree. Gram for gram, Moringa leaves contain:
7 time ...
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- Is Walking The Best Exercise?
By: Donovan Baldwin | - Copyright 2006 Donovan Baldwin
One thing up front. I personally believe, based on experience and study, that walking has to be one of the finest exercises around. Whether you are interested in health, fitness, weight loss, or aging, there's not too many things that have such a beneficial effect as walking.
In fact, before we try to humble and belittle walking as an exercise, let's be noble and try to point out some of its good points.
As a general, ...
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