Team Sports

Editorial: Roger Clemens Has Risen Again!

Published on: 8th May, 2007

Roger Clemens flew into Yankee Stadium this past week to save “Gotham” from total disaster. He arrived without notifying his best friends – Pettite, Jeter, Posada – fellow pinstripe teammates. He hovered in the box over the crowd that was watching a day time baseball game. During the seventh inning stretch, Roger grabbed [...]

Interview: Jean Potvin, Part II

Published on: 22nd April, 2007

With Paul Schienberg, PhD
Part II: The Rise and Fall of A Professional Sports Team
Schienberg: The rise and fall of the New York Islanders is of great interest. An expansion team may be in existence for four, five, six years. Then, all of a sudden it wins the Stanley Cup (highest trophy in hockey [...]

Everyone’s A Winner: A Middle School Football Game

Published on: 21st April, 2007

By Paul Schienberg, PhD
Thousands of middle school football games get played across the country every weekend. Coaches and players spend hours trying to figure out ways to beat their opponents. Teams sometimes run up winning scores so that contracts are renewed, scholarships are offered, and players will be rewarded with gifts of all kinds.
Something happened [...]

Outline Notes on a Sports Team as an Effective Group

Published on: 18th April, 2007

Translated by Paul Schienberg, PhD
I. THE NATURE OF GROUPS
A. Definition of a Group
1.The common fate of members serves to highlight the nature of a group.
2.Groups are a source of strength.
3.Groups are characterized by a social structure (roles, norms, status differences and positional differences).
4.Groups are characterized by a variety of group processes such as communication, cooperation, [...]

Interview: Jean Potvin: Part I

Published on: 11th April, 2007

With: Paul Schienberg, PhD
Part I: Siblings and Athletics
Schienberg: I read over material regarding your sports career. I’ve seen you play hockey. I identified four areas that I’d like to talk with you about. One is the playing of sports with a sibling – namely your younger brother, Dennis.
Potvin: We’ve always played together. Dennis and I [...]

Communication Blocks: Part III

Published on: 6th August, 2005

By Paul Schienberg, PhD
Further exploring specific problems and resolutions designed to get athletes and coaches on the same frequency.

A-Rod: Therapy Has Helped My Baseball

Published on: 6th July, 2005

A “shrink” can expand your athletic performance.
By Paul Schienberg, PhD

Communication Blocks: Part II

Published on: 6th September, 2004

By Paul Schienberg, PhD
This article will address more communication blocks that can interfere with inner personal blocks (player in player and coach in coach) and interpersonal blocks (player to coach, player to player and coach to player) understandings and athletic performance. Please re-read The Basics in “Communication Blocks: I”, [...]

Building a Sports Team

Published on: 6th December, 2003

By Paul Schienberg, PhD
When children are born, they are usually thrust into a group called a family. Over the past forty years, the stability of this unit has proven to be more and more unreliable. By the time children reach their eighteenth birthday, the family, as originally constituted, no longer exists. Children often belong to [...]

Communication and Athletic Groups II

Published on: 6th December, 2003

By Paul Schienberg, PhD
If a group of any kind is to function, its members must be able to communicate easily and efficiently. In successful teams, coaches and athletes talk openly about interpersonal and task-related issues that affect them directly. Interpersonal conflict is often the result of misunderstanding and miscommunication of feelings. Learning how to express [...]

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