Point of the Game

Conversations on Sports, Ethics and Culture

Showing posts with label coaching. Show all posts

Showing posts with label coaching. Show all posts

Saturday, December 28, 2013

The Health Costs of Modern Coaching

I watched Gary Kubiak have a stroke on the sidelines of a Houston Texans Game. Two months later he was fired. I watched Eric Wedge of the ...

Monday, October 22, 2012

Professional versus College Coaching

This last weekend I watched teams coached by Nick Saban, Mike Riley and Steve Spurrier. All the teams played with abandon, skill and precisi...

Monday, March 5, 2012

Pay to Maim--Making Football Players Felons

Football is a violent game; the violence powers its structure and attraction. I have written at length about how this violence requires gr...

Thursday, September 8, 2011

"Friday Night Lights"-the Significance of Football I & II

“Can you be perfect?” Coach Garry Gaines asks his Odessa-Permian high school team at the start of August practice in the movie Fri...

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

"Friday Night Lights"-the Significance of Football

“Can you be perfect?” Coach Garry Gaines asks his Odessa-Permian high school team at the start of August practice in the movie Friday Nig...

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Love and Basketball: John Wooden as Coach

I don't have any more accolades to add to those being heaped upon John Wooden at his death at the age of 99. I did have the pleasure of...

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J. Patrick Dobel: I teach at the University of Washington where I served as the faculty athletic representative. I created Point of the Game as a chance to reflect upon upon the role of sport in our society. Point of the Game seeks to be a conversation about about the nature of ethics in athletics and its relation to our human condition.

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