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The Economic Impact of Integration: A Billion Dollar Tragedy Discover the devastating consequences of integration on black businesses and wealth. Explore the lost potential and economic genocide caused by the disappearance of the Negro League. Uncover the mind-blowing market values of MLB teams today and the missed opportunities for black ownership. #IntegrationEconomicImpact #NegroLeagueGenocide #BlackBusinesses #MLBMarketValues #MissedOpportunities #WealthInequality #BlackOwnership #SportsContribution #RacialJustice #EconomicTragedy

Talk about a homerun PCL!

Two #pickleball player rating systems have come to the forefront now that #USAPickleball have phased out their UTPR system. Instead, they've partnered with UTR Sports, a newcomer to pickleball with a lauded history in tennis. UTR will manage ratings for USAP-sanctioned events, tournaments, leagues, and recreational activities. This news comes just a week after #DUPR, the other prevalent rating system, announced a similar partnership with UPA (the newly formed entity overseeing the #PPATour and #MajorLeaguePickleball). It is good to see USAP ripping the band aid off and making a decision to go with something other than UTPR. However, it feels like we are in for another battle with UPA siding with DUPR and now USAP choosing to go with UTR. To keep up with everything pickleball, bookmark our content page here: https://lnkd.in/gfRWT6vc

4 short stories that taught me 4 life lessons.

Read more on the temporary pause on the Boy Scouts of America's Chapter 11 plan.

Read more on the temporary pause on the Boy Scouts of America's Chapter 11 plan.

In this article I provide some practical steps footballers can take to protect their privacy and reputation, if, like Beckham, they become the centre of media scrutiny during their career.

Incredible insights from Gareth Southgate and a stark reminder of how important it is to equip founders, entrepreneurs, professionals and athletes with the right tools to manage their psychology in high-performance environments. Key takeaways: - Mentality is everything - Drive matters - A constant desire to get better is essential - The ability to deal with mistakes or when things go wrong is vital - Knowing how to deal with success is just as important - Understanding ways to handle pressure is necessary As a founder, team leader or employee, can you perform at the highest level, day in and day out? Through lots of unknown variables? Through pressure? Through the opinions of naysayers and non-believers? Through consecutive bad quarters? Through failure? Through pessimistic macro environments? Through big changes? As the future of work continues to transform, as teams become more and more distributed, and as companies understand that the only thing that matters is how competent and kind their people are (not where they live or what their salary expectations are), high-performance will become a core value that companies seek, develop, mould and enable. High performance will apply to everyone. Thanks for sharing Steven Caulker 👌🏻 #embraceyourprocess

Some valuable insights here. The desire to continually improve fades with many highly talented players. Reaching a comfort zone can act as a self imposed glass ceiling for many players. Money, fame and success can erode an appetite to push on to the limits of a player's potential. Mindset is a vital factor here in affecting ongoing performance. However, do coaches and players themselves look at how this can be kept at optimal levels. Think Ronaldo, Tom Brady, Harry Kane, Daley Thompson and many more elite sports stars. It is possible to improve brain health and cognitive function and have better focus, mindset, resilience and to perform better through making better decisions, more quickly, more often. What is an extra few percentage points worth, in terms of elite performance for an elite performers? What marginal gains and competitive edge could be achieved? All these factors are game changers.

Skills sets in sports traditionally centred on physical, observable parameters like skill level etc. This evolved to include tangible metrics of ‘form’ e.g. player stats that detail how well a player may have done over a particular period. “The thing we have analysed more than anything else when we’ve been picking England squads is the psychological… can these guys perform under that pressure to the best possible level? And if not, can we help them to do that?” Gareth Southgate details how psychological skills now form one pillar upon which player selection for the England squad is based. He details skills like recovery from mistakes, performance under pressure and sustained attention as key attributes of the elite player. “In the end that makes the difference between the very, very good and the elite” These skills fall into the broad category of ‘executive functions’. Like any other metric, they can measured and - more than that - trained and improved. We no longer have to view psychological skills as static and innate. They develop, evolve and can grow over time. Like the early adopters of any new evidence and technology, those players, coaches and teams who embrace this growing body of scientific evidence will see the benefits before the rest. Hasan Jaber Pete O'Mara-Kane Rory Rebbeck Alex Bailey #replikateneuro #neuroscience #sportsscience #psychologicalscience #football #Euro2024