Mental Toughness in Sport

Hello all---i will attach the power point slides for mental toughness with the email that announces this posting---use those slides to help you complete this blog opportunity. In your writing, be sure to 1.) define mental toughness in your own words, 2.) give an example from your personal history as a player or a coach when you (or your Team), a teammate, or an opponent, displayed mental toughness during competition. 3.) Explain how you might develop mental toughness in a team or a player (if we are talking about an individual sport), 4.) How mental toughness is related to ethics---that is link some of the prime moral values to your response from #3---this post and the post on sport and entertainment shold be completed by midnight on thursday may 1---blog # 8 will post that day---blog # 9 will post next weekend

Sport as Entertainment

Hello all---as a follow up to our class of this am---blog away after reading from the following link---www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JSH/JSH2000/JSH2703/JSH2703i.pdf---it's a piece written by a sport philosopher from the University of Central Florida---speaking to the issues that were raised in class regarding the development of what I referred to as the Age of the Consumer---blog your thoughts regarding the nature of sport as entertainment---has it truly become an entertainment based proposition or do those who participate and spectate continue to do so for the 'love of the game'---and---what are the future implications for sport if this trend is to continue---see you thursday---coach brunner

Neuroplasticity

Hello all! Dr. Stoll was scheduled to cover the topic of neuroplasticity with you all. Check out the link to another blog---miketnelson.blogspot.com/2009/01/neuroplasticity-and-human-athletic.html---post your thoughts on the topic of neuroplasticity and its relationship to sport and sport performance---be sure to 1.) define what neuroplasticity is, 2.) describe how and when this can happen to the brain, 3.) discuss the topic of survival and performance as it relates to neuroplasticity, finally...4.) speculate on how the use of neuroplasticity might effect the ethical practice of sport---post due before class next week on the 21st---see you then!---i will be back next week

Bad link!

Sorry guys!---the link to the abstract should be http://www.jstor.org/pss/3561718---thanks!

Performance Enhancing Drugs

Hello all---sorry that i have not posted this sooner---have been fighting through some health issues while attempting to slog through the beginning of spring practice here in south carolina---nonetheless---have graded your mid-term writing assignements---they are on their way to dr. stoll today via fast mail---you will have them in your possession next tuesday---for the most part---well well done---this blog (#4) will be followed by another early next week---keeping us on track to finish the 10 blog assignements due this semester---check out the following link---http://www.jstor.org/pss/356178---this willconnect you to a one page abstract written by Thomas H. Murphy in 1983---more than 25 years ago about 'The Coercive Power of Drugs in Sport'---Murphy was certainly ahead of his time!---he raises some interesting questions---Is this kind of drug use unethical?---Should we think of it (drug use---performance enhancing and recreational) as an expression of liberty?---Or, do the special circumstances of sport affect our moral analysis?---In particular, should liberty give way when other important values are threatened and the good of all is in peril?---blog on about these topics---make sure you hit them all---10 points for this one---please submit by midnight on monday april 6---the day the university of north carolina should lose the national championship game!