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I’ve always hated the mercy rule. Does that make me a poor sport?
Throughout my life as an athlete, I’ve been fortunate enough to be a part of many winning teams. My earliest memories of triumph are of the four goals I scored in a single game as a 9 year old soccer...
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Strategic rule breaking: a fine line between poor sport and passionate player
No case of cheating is more vivid in my mind than the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan drama that unfolded weeks before the start of the 1994 Winter Olympic Games. Kerrigan was attacked by a man hired by...
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Winning: It isn’t just about the scoreboard, baby
We’re approaching the mid-point of my stepson’s AYSO soccer season. I can happily say that he is one of the stand-out players on the team. The only problem is that he doesn’t have much competition...
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Moving (better) for Wellness: a look at life, sport and doping
Perhaps one of the most unanswerable of health mysteries is that of nature vs. nurture. Despite all of our advancements in epidemiology our top medical minds debate the true etiology of some of the...
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Doping: Beyond reaction and well-intended half-truths
Sport is truly a manifestation of human movement that blends elements of our true selves (as human beings as well as individuals) with our working society at large. There is great utility in the way...
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Beauty in movement
All throughout the natural world, true wellness is expressed through beauty. This phenomenon is commonly thought to be nature’s method of ensuring the most healthy and robust specimens are the ones to...
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Searching for Atalanta: an ethical look at women and sport
Human movement is something special to each individual. No matter how active we are now or have ever been, we each carry with us our own compendium of our subjective experiences as movers. Such a joy...
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Big-time college athletics and the mind-body problem
Last week, while addressing the issue of gender disparities in sport, I made reference to the problems with Title IX and offered some possible solutions. One sentiment I shared with Francis is that all...
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Our acceptance of chronic disease –“Is our healthcare broken or is it just me?”
My motivation for seeking proficiency in the healing arts has always been the amount of gratuitous suffering in the world. I don’t know if it was my Catholic upbringing or the ubiquity of that great...
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Moving for Wellness of Others
There comes a time when you are reminded of the true value of health. Sometimes we can forget that true wellness can be more than just a superficial pursuit for a perfect set of washboard abs. I’ve...
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