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NAYSI News FYI:
Monday, April 28, 2003

Number 451 ~    © 2003 NAYSI

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In This Issue . . .

• Ask Jack: Can you recommend any resources . . .

• Media Shaping Negative Thought?

• 262 NFL Football Draftees

• Parent Education Info Sought

• Jack Golf Balls

• More Resources And Advertisements

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Ask Jack: Can you recommend any resources or websites containing examples of ways to relate physical education and math concepts? Dennis on 3/21/2003

Jack sez: Simple math is used widely in sport. For instance, find diagrams of various the sport courts, from basketball to badminton. Draw them out on graph paper in proper proportions. A common ratio in drawings is 1/4 inch per foot. Then calculate perimeter distances and square footage of the various sections. Baseball and softball fields will be a challenge.

Math can be used to calculate batting averages, rushing averages, scoring averages, and bowling averages. These data commonly found in the Sunday newspaper.

Watch a tennis match. Chart the number of unforced errors and other kinds of data.

Use the distances for 10K races and marathons to calculate distances in inches, feet, yards, meters and miles. Find the times from published races and calculate miles per hour and kilometers per hours. Ask your local track coach for their team times and tournament times.

Math and health go together well. Find resting heart rates, body weight, height, and exercise heart rate after bouncing on two feet for one minute, or more. Compare the differences among students according to age and height. Be careful to not cause problems when examining weight. The larger students cab become embarrassed rather easily. Add age in months and years or fractions (e.g., 9 and 5/12 years of age) as additional factors.

Media shaping negative thought?

by Jack Hutslar at www.NAYSI.com

On Being Negative

I am positive that you have noticed, if not felt, the blanket of negativity laid on us by the media in recent decades. They have covered us with a constant stream of bad news about people and events. This is a fact that I have made note of numerous times in the past. The big time media is opposed to reports of good news as well as "feel good" stories.

The big time media seems to place good news on the low end of the hard news or serious news spectrum. It would appear that soft stories contribute nothing to salary increases and acclaim for reporters. Indeed, good news stories, as well as sports reporting, may even harm the future earning potential of reporters.

It is blatantly obvious that getting the dirt on some deserving or undeserving soul plays well in the big time media. Setting up or allowing some highly visible person to put their foot in their own mouth as did Al Campanis, Jimmy the Greek, John Rocker and Trent Lott, becomes highly sensationalized grist for the media mill. Their own are exempt from this. It is bad form to soil your own den. Getting the dirt on others provides copy for months and negative tag lines that are used forever.

This is not the only place where this kind of negativity commonly appears. It seems like every bad issue that arises in corporate America is linked to a fall in stock market prices. Consumer spending, housing starts and corporate profit reports represent positive financial news today but they do not seem to change the outlook of our negative media. What is driving this negative parade - - the biased presentations of bad news by the media or bad financial performance.

In politics today, every policy or event seems to generate a negative root cause in the Bush administration. As is well known, the big time media has acknowledged itself to be populated mostly by Democrats so balanced reporting should not be expected. Obviously, a highly negative media is a major player in this segment of our information highway. However, a shifting market shares of major news outlets is altering what and how we learn. In the meantime, where is the other side of the story. Where are the positive stories.

Equally unbalanced reporting seem to be a standard practice in what reaches us through the international media. At home, we are shown mostly anti-American interviews and events by our media. What is the root cause of this out of balance negative propaganda and our poor international image, if it does exist - - the selective presentations of bad news by the media or bad performance.

Switch your thoughts to sales and marketing. Can sales leaders and sales people thrive in a sea of negativity as it is presented to us by the big time media. That gets a flat out NO. Suppose you are part time seller of youth sport training programs or other products. Can you be successful when you are up to your eyeballs in the kind of negativity offered by the media. Not likely. Sales is based on positive thoughts, benefits and positive actions. Sales people must always believe the next phone call, the next appointment, the next personal contact will result in a sale.

Make it four for four where negative thought leads to undesirable and perhaps unnecessary problems. Academically, the media is providing us with a real life example of what is called negative expectations in the self-fulfilling prophesy department. You get what you sow.

Let us change gears now to child rearing, coaching and teaching. It is not without some resistance that we have come to realize that positive remarks and positive feedback produce positive results. When working with youngsters, being positive works much better than being negative.

We pat the youngsters on the back when they try hard. We pat them on the back when they show effort. We pat them on the back when the get better. We pat them on the back with they try. We pat them on the back when they win. The end result is that they get better and produce when we treat them in a positive, rather than negative, manner.

What do you suppose might happen in our society if we were to suddenly see positive remarks about good people, be presented with good financial news, read positive stories about our current administration as well as our national leaders, and discover the many positive human stories about those who work for the good of all peoples. Would that alter the way we interact with others in our daily life. Would that alter our motivational state. Certainly it would.

We can go to the bank with the fact that positive remarks work for our children as well as the adults we work with at home and in business. Consequently, there is reason to believe that positive reporting would work in society at large and in our economy and politics in general. The only loser in this scenario is the media.

Our media and our political system continues to operate in a negative mode. While many people are very positive, particularly with children, the media appears content to drag us down with negativity. I am sure you know people who seem to be influenced by this.

The anti-smoking lobby criticized Joe Camel for leading youngsters to smoking. Nasty movies, rap music and violent video games have been blamed for leading malleable minds to trouble. Similarly, who might venture a guess as to how our negative media influences evil-doers or dropouts in our society.

Positivity versus negativity is one of those big picture issues that is easy to write about but only a few people have the ability to change in one lifetime. We can only do what we can do individually, and that is be positive. That is not too much to ask.

As far as the big picture and the media, would it not be nice if that change were to happen, even slowly. Sigh! Just imagine the upside.

On the other hand, can you see how the media would report this happening. The headlines might read - - Pessimists down on being positive, list grievances.

Epilog

The article you just read was written before the war with Iraq began. It was instructive to follow the negative strategy of the big time media in their reporting of the war and the events leading up to it.

The big time media reporters and the spokespeople they recruited said that our troops would not be able to fight effectively in the desert environment. The big time media was proven wrong.

The big time media reporters and the spokespeople they recruited were very critical of the slow pace at which the troops were advancing the first few days of the war. The big time media was proven wrong.

The big time media reporters and the spokespeople they recruited were very fearful that our troops would not be able to outfight their fierce Iraqi soldiers. The big time media was proven wrong.

The big time media reporters and the spokespeople they recruited said that our nation would get bogged down in a protracted Viet Nam type conflict. The big time media was proven wrong.

The big time media reporters and the spokespeople they recruited said that the Iraqi people are not capable of forming a democratic government. Will the big time media be proven wrong again? Based on past performance, one would have to side against them.

Here is a test for being positive. Let us see if a national government can be created in Iraq despite all of the negative forces be exerted from inside and outside Iraq.

Is there a lesson to be learned from the big time media as it relates to the educational perspective of parents, teachers, coaches and business leaders. In my view, the media approach to this war is 180 degrees from how we should deal with human begins of any age. If we were to conduct our lives with this same type of negativity that has been exhibited by the big time media, the only good outcome likely to occur would be revolution and anarchy.

The research is overwhelming. Humans just do not function productively in the type of negative environment that the media prefers to generate. People do not like negativity. Be positive. It works. Create a positive culture within your youth organization, school or team. It may not sell newspapers but it sure produces positive results in all types of social groups.

262 NFL Football Draftees

The 2003 NFL Draft was held April 26 and 27, 2003. Just 262 players were drafted from the eight million players who participate in football at all levels. Does this not provide evidence to convince youngsters that if they put all of their eggs in one basket, making it to the pro level, they are setting themselves up for a hard life and a very poor future? Youngsters must spend at least as much time on their homework as sports. To do otherwise is just plain foolish. Coaches at any level who allow youngsters to ignore their studies are guilty of using kids for their own selfish purposes.

Parent Education Info Sought

Dr. Larry Isaacs from Wright State University in Ohio is currently collecting information regarding "parent education" initiatives among youth sport programs. If your organization has undertaken such an initiative (example: Code of Ethics for Parents, etc.) please let Dr. Isaacs know what you are doing.  

Dr. Isaacs can be reached at the following address: Dr. Larry Isaacs, Wright State University, Department of Biological Sciences Exercise Biology Program, Dayton, OH  45435, (937) 775-2859, larry.isaacs@wright.edu

Jack Golf Balls

It was announced in April 2003 that Wilson Sporting Goods is coming out with a new line of golf balls under the Jack label. Jack Nicklaus and his attorney are claiming trademark infringement. I understand the sensitivity of Nicklaus to the use of his name. I also feel compelled to register my complaint with Wilson for the confusion this has caused.

It occurred to me that Wilson is trying to take advantage of MY position in the sporting community for corporate gain without MY permission. Nicklaus and Hutslar have remarkably similar histories. They include . . .

• Both of us are called Jack.

• Both of us were born in Ohio.

• Both of us lived in Columbus.

• Both of us played baseball.

• Both of us play golf.

• Both of us taught golf.

• Both of us attended Ohio State.

• Both of us have been seen at OSU football games.

• Both of us have done sports clinics for kids.

• Both of us helped design sports facilities.

• Both of us have written books.

• Both of us put our pants on one leg at a time.

• Both of us tend to be a bit on the chunky side.

• Both of us married girls from Columbus North High School.

Apart from the fact that the other Jack has a Hall of Fame Museum on campus at Ohio State next to the Schott, the confusion is understandable. Need I say more.

I am honored that Wilson Sporting Goods has chosen to honor me by using my name in their promotions. However, they have not asked permission to use my name on these golf balls, nor have they offered to compensate me for the use of my name. Yet, to show my understanding and compassion when the litigation starts, I am more than willing to share the settlement with that other Jack.

April 27 to May 3, 2003
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National Coaching Conference

June 19 - 21, 2003
Penn Stater Conference Center

Join leaders in coaching education from across the country for the National Coaching Conference at Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania

"Taking Coaching Education to Another Level:
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Learn and share the latest strategies for preparing and supporting coaches at all levels including the following issues facing coaches and coaching educators: ethics and fair play; athlete safety; spectators, coaches and officials; drugs and sport performance; increasing opportunities for minorities and women in coaching; club sports and school sport issues.

Featured speakers:     
Joe Paterno (invited), head football coach at Penn State
Harry Sheehy, author, "Raising a Team Player"
and Athletic Director at Williams College

Contact Pam Logan at Penn State University for more informationpal7@outreach.psu.edu, or 814-863-5118

Christine Bolger, Program Administrator for Sport
National Association for Sport and Physical Education
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Reston, Virginia 20191
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PH 703-476-3417  -  FAX 703-476-8316

Saturday July 26, 2003
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