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.
Instead they referred us to the umbrella group for field sports - the Countryside Alliance.
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We are moving forward with the finest officials in sports back on the field.
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He had heard the rumblings that his team wanted to move him out of one of the most prestigious positions in sports: center field for the New York Yankees, onetime home of Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle.
Again, lessons to be learned for application far from the field of sports.
Then, in December, the European Court of Justice agreed to review a complaint from three French animal-rights campaigners, backed by the European Commission on Human Rights, who say that the French law letting shooters on to smallholders' land violates property rights and freedom of association because it forces people to become de facto members of the local field-sports association.
Banish from your minds the notion, for instance, that when an Australian sports team takes to the field the entire nation watches spellbound wearing green and gold shell-suits.
Whichever sport is chosen will join the 25 sports the IOC listed Tuesday as core sports for 2020: athletics (track and field), rowing, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football (soccer), gymnastics, weightlifting, handball, hockey, judo, swimming, modern pentathlon, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery, triathlon, sailing and volleyball.
Whichever sport is chosen will join the 25 sports the IOC listed Tuesday as core sports for 2020: athletics (track and field), rowing, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football (soccer), gymnastics, weightlifting, handball, field hockey, judo, swimming, modern pentathlon, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery, triathlon, sailing and volleyball.
Far from leveling the playing field, college sports recruiting offers the moneyed a substantial advantage over less wealthy families.
Unlike sports in which the home field advantage is attributed to the officials, the researchers believe psychological factors are at work here.
Dan and Keri work in the field of disabled sports, Keri for Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association and Dan for the Chicago Park District.
The network's powerhouse sports franchise Sunday Night Football will exit the field and successful new drama Revolution and The Voice will soon take a break until March.
"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.
The issue has again put front and center the question of whether sports figures, often lauded as heroes, should be judged in the annals of sports history by way of their off-the-field conduct.
With so many ways to deliver the messages of arts and entertainment, the field is every bit as competitive as sports, finance, politics or technology itself.
This is direct competition with DirectTV, which has dominated the out-of-market sports field for year.
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College sports offers the most uneven playing field between schools in terms of financial capabilities and exposure.
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The Field Museum of Natural History sports one of the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossils around.
There is now a level playing field (apologies for the sports metaphor) that would allow the badly underfunded transportation agency to take full advantage of the area's rapidly rising prices and explosive growth.
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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Still, sports couldn't survive off the field without pitting someone against someone else.
There are three major stadiums within walking distance, with year round spectator sports, most notably Coors Field, the home of the Colorado Rockies, which also helped usher in the quality baseball stadium revival when it opened in 1995.
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.
Other professional-sports leagues have long dealt with off-the-field issues among their owners.
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.
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