Leadership is a singular quality, whether in the boardroom, the political arena or on the sports field.
"Perfectionists have a difficult time with making mistakes, " Cohn said, when asked how to cultivate resilience on the sports field.
Or, as some schools already do, at least give time off during the school day to compensate for the hours spent on the sports field?
Two-thirds of parents say they have witnessed bullying and intimidation on the school sports field, a survey suggests.
We are moving forward with the finest officials in sports back on the field.
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"We have to move forward to professionalism on the field, and off the field too, " says Hassan Boutabsil, the head of sports at the Moroccan TV station 2M.
Saban is a premier college football coach, but the principle seems universal to a competitive sports business where coaches are on the sidelines and players on the field make the points or runs that win or lose games.
Teams like Portland and Utah in the NBA, Ottawa in the NHL, and San Francisco and Chicago Cubs in MLB outdraw the median attendance within their sports without having stars or with little recent on-field success (the Giants recent World Series notwithstanding).
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Is it freedom of religion, democracy, a judiciary and parliamentary system that is envied worldwide, a cherished monarchy, a reputation of fair play on and off the field, be it business, sports, diplomacy or combat, the English language, etc?
Mr. STEVE CAPUS (President, NBC News): We are here with a different mandate than NBC Sports, and their focus will be on the field of play.
It is an observation that perhaps sports is a vehicle for human dynamics beyond what happens on the field.
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Perennial Portuguese powerhouse Porto relies heavily on the practice, according to a recent paper by sports lawyers Daniel Geey of Field Fisher Waterhouse and Ariel N.
Beyond on-field exploits, we should pay attention to the business of college sports at its highest levels.
He grew up a sports junkie who was "too skinny" to make it big on the court or field.
Coming up on January 6 at Conseco Field House, home of the Indiana Pacers: the two-day Midwest Sports Business Combine, aimed at recruiting young sales pros to peddle tickets for the Pacers, Minnesota Timberwolves, Milwaukee Bucks, Detroit Red Wings, Cincinnati Bengals, and several other major sports franchises.
Kraft is among the most highly regarded owners in professional sports, having created, out of an ash heap, a perennial winner on and off the field.
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In a culture that encourages the constant search for the limits of human achievement, we, the fans, the consumers of popular sports entertainment, revel in record-breaking, gravity-defying, barely believable feats on the field of play.
Hopefully as we understand more about CTE and its symptoms and progression, sports teams will be able to make better rules about what is and is not allowed on the field, and safety equipment regulations will perhaps also evolve.
In contrast, sports entertainment executives exert much less control over their product, at least the on-the-court (or field) aspect.
"He can talk to them about both their on-field and off-field businesses, and in the way that he has migrated from singer to producer to sports-team owner, show them a path that I'm sure a lot of them would like to follow one day, " Mr. Horowitz said.
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