The purpose of this paper is to use data compiled from a recent study of a transitioning novice coach to outline some potential pitfalls transitioning coaches can avoid as it pertains to navigating micropolitical issues with their new athletes.

This paper explores the perceptions and experiences of women academics in the UK, participating in a small-scale qualitative study exploring career progression and encountered institutional obstacles. The accounts are considered in terms of both disadvantageous institutional strategies and interpersonal ones governing day-to-day working…

The Better Arguments Project was created to encourage Americans to engage one other in better, more productive debates about core American ideals. The project stems from the foundational premise that America doesn't just contain arguments, America is an argument -- between Federalist and Anti-Federalist worldviews, strong national government and…

One of the most powerful ways to boost the payoff from school sports lays in helping coaches build developmental relationships with student-athletes. Developmental relationships are close connections through which young people develop character skills to discover who they are, gain the ability to shape their own lives, and learn how to interact…

Play is sometimes said to be paradoxical because it displays one quality and the opposite of that quality at the same time. One of the best examples of this is the copresence of order and disorder. This article explores the differences between orderly and disorderly play. The author emphasizes the ways in which any event can be said to be orderly…

Aspects of the relationships between state college and university representatives and state coordinating councils, and forms of intragroup behavior are considered. It is suggested that within an interorganizational paradigm, knowledge of and ability in interagency coordination may be crucial to the future of higher education. Higher education is…