Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Soccer Drills Kids Will Love!
...rwise called traffic.
Ball Control: Driving School
You will need a lot of space (at least 20 square yards) to play this game and complete this drill. Similar to many soccer drills, every player has his/her own ball. By making sure everyone has their own ball during soccer drills, you will give them responsibility and they will be less likely to lose interest in watching others practice as they observe. In this drill, you (the coach) are the driving instructor. The players must do exactly what you say as you teach them how to drive and stop when you say. Any player that doesnt do immediately as you say is out. Play for two minutes before restarting. This drill teaches ball control (dribbling, how to stop the ball with the foot, pullbacks, using the outside of each feet).
Description:
1. Go-start dribbling
2. Stop-stop the ball with a foot on top
3. Slow-slow down pace of dribbling
4. Speed Up-dribble faster
5. Turn Right-push the ball with the outside of the foot towards the right ...more
FIFA World Cup 2006 England Glory - 1966 / 2006
...ountry with the once largest of empires has, at one time or another, trounced on or been instrumental in shaping the modern world as we know it. It seems logical that someone would want to get their own back by beating the national football team.
Many of the England naysayers believe that the England team lacks the personality and passion to bring home the cup. Although a personality is great for the cameras, the one ingredient that is surely more important is playing the game of football and scoring goals, and with the current England line up we have the best chance since 1966. Roll on World Cup 2006
...moreBowl Handle Fails to Flush Standard
...>"The important thing is we didn't lose," Paonessa said, adding that the Boyd Group was a loser on the total.
All three resorts reported heavy traffic as Sin City circumvented the NFL ban on Super Bowl parties by offering food and drink specials and showing the game on regulation-sized TVs throughout the casinos.
"We were busy, but I've seen better," Paonessa said.
"We were busy all day," said Baccellieri, a veteran Caesars Palace employee who hadn't been in Vegas for the Super Bowl in five or six years
"Always before I saw it from the perspective of a major Strip hotel," he continued.
"It was fun, different, to view it from an off-Strip one.
"I'd call it a decent day."
...moreWinter Olympics TV Coverage Far From golden
...Its that time of the year again. The 2005 National football league season has come to an end with the Pittsburgh Steelers capturing the Super Bowl title, the Major league Baseball Spring Training season is just readying to begin, the National Basketball Association is in a holding pattern for most fans until its playoffs, the NASCAR season is just getting started with the Daytona 500 just raced and the National Hockey league is on hiatus due to the 2006 Winter Olympics. And with the NCAAs March Madness still weeks away, what is a sports fan to do?
We force ourselves to tune in to the NBC television broadcast network in order to try to catch some of the real competition on tap in the XX Olympic Winter Games. Sports fans are not averse to watching Winter Olympics coverage, but trying to figure out NBCs television schedule has become a sport of Olympic proportions unto itself.
The supposed television Winter Olympics schedule is available in local newspapers, in various sports magazines and all over the internet. But the schedule times are useless in pinpointing when any particular sport is broadcasted. And depending on what time zone one lives in, it is virtually impossible not to hear the results on television, radio, or view online prior to seeing the broadcast as NBC has its coverage tape delayed in five different U.S. time zones.
The excuse to not broadcast real time coverage during these Olympic Games is viable this year i...more