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Intensity Over Targets & Figures

"It's never based on targets and figures. It's about the intensity."So spoke cricket World Cup winning 50-over captain of England, Eoin Morgan. Reflecting on Friday's world record score against the Dutch. A total just two shy of the vaunted 500. I blog on this essential underpinning theme often. For

Rory Knows You Shouldn't Just Chase The Dollar

🗣 "Any decision you make in your life that's purely for money, usually doesn't end up going the right way" Rory McIlroy says his stance on the LIV Series 'has been pretty clear from the start' 👇 pic.twitter.com/UvmyaGec2f — Sky Sports

Golf Club Marking Can DQ Your Bid

Hideki Matsuyama gets DQ’d for a marking on the face of his fairway wood. The 📸 🐐 @gdm43pga managed to snap this one of Hideki’s at Muirfield. Gotta assume the white areas, which were likely meant to frame the face and center, caused the DQ. Wild stuff. pic.twitter.com/

Latest Sport Data Frontier

Earlier in the season, I blogged on how we could adapt the brain-training that saw Liverpool Football Club win England's first silverware of the year on offer. Based around the ability to train players' brains in taking penalties [initial & update]. That work of German outfit Neuro11 saw 17 of

Madrid Maestros Mentality

Not the "best" side. Yet the winners. Real Madrid mugged Liverpool to the top European club football crown at the weekend. Reminiscent of Jose Mourinho's Inter Milan somehow nabbing the 'big cup' back in 2010. In the aftermath, one of the victorious players spoke candidly in the media zone. Toni

Sport Presenter Pace

Working with Des Lynam gave [Steve Rider] a blueprint of how to present sport. "The lesson I learnt from Des was ‘the greater the tension, the slower the delivery."A clip from a 2022 interview with a former English tv sport anchorman, now compiling an archive of motorsport media. Des

I Can Train Penalty Shooting

Really?! That was the cold pitch of a German neuroscientist to an elite football coach a couple of years back. Here's how the grateful manager relayed that exchange, in the aftermath of a victory he dedicated to them. "Neuro11 got in contact with us two years ago. One of them

Seneca Evolution

Luck is a place where Planning meets Opportunity.That was a phrase writ large on a flipchart at the start on one of my first ever days of solution sales training. It has become core to my approach. I do believe in Luck, as such, as part of this critical

Latest in White Ball Hotseat Builds on 4 Values

So England's men's cricketers in the shortened forms have a new coach. Aussie Matthew Mott moves alongside long-time friend (who he mentored in coaching too, perhaps), Kiwi Brendan McCullum over at his new rock-bottom red-ball charges. Several injuries robbed England of World Cup glory at last year's rearranged T20 tournament.

11 Relentless Drivers From Rugby World Cup Winning S&C Coach

Welshman Aled Walters helped the Boks mug the English for the 2019 Crown. As Strength and Conditioning coach (the S&C of this post's title), he's had two decades of elite globe-trotting experience. Currently contributing towards the resurgence of English club side Leicester, I read a broadsheet interview [sub'n