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Untrained coaches lead to big injuries
Each year more than 1 million suffer an injury that causes missed school, forces a trip to the hospital or requires surgery. Besides the usual sprained ankles and knees, doctors report a surge of serious injuries from overtraining, poor athletic techniques and rushed recovery from old injuries -- cases that might have been avoided if adults had taken steps to prevent them. Still, many schools and sports organizations require little training or proof that their coaches know how to keep such injuries from happening. "It's a great problem and something we have to address," said Dr. Lyle Micheli, director of sports medicine at Children's Hospital in Boston. "Quality of the adult (coaches') supervision is key." A CNHI News Service survey of coaching requirements found seven states -- Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Virginia -- have no medical training standards at all for school sports coaches.
Pair of Pike County clinics join Quincy Medical Group
The Pike County Family Practice and Winchester Family Practice will become branch clinics of Quincy Medical Group Feb. 1. Both clinics will continue in their present locations, and Dr. Ronald Johnson, Dr. Warren Barrow and physician assistant Danita Ray will continue to see patients at those locations. "We welcome Dr. Johnson and his colleagues to Quincy Medical Group, and we look forward to continue delivering quality health-care services in Pittsfield and the surrounding communities in Pike County," said Aric Sharp, QMG's chief executive officer. "Dr. Johnson, Dr. Barrow and Ms. Ray are respected by our QMG providers and have served Pike County for many years, and we believe the partnership will help provide that same level of service and added technology to the region for the future," Sharp said.
Giants' coach and Belichick on good terms
One evening last March during the NFL meetings in Phoenix, a group of folks leaving a restaurant encountered Tom Coughlin and Dick Jauron dining with their wives on the outdoor terrace.
Nothing unusual about that - Jauron, Buffalo's coach, was once Coughlin's defensive coordinator in Jacksonville.
Bill Belichick wasn't there. He doesn't spend much time at owners' meetings. But if he had been present, he might have been sitting with Coughlin and Jauron, among the few NFL coaches for whom the Patriots coach has any genuine affection. Add Cleveland's Romeo Crennel and you might have the entire list of peers Belichick truly likes.
That makes next Sunday's Super Bowl almost a love fest between two men perceived to be among the NFL's least lovable coaches: Belichick and Coughlin, portrayed by television cameras and sometimes his own New York Giants players as the ultimate grumpy old man.
That looks like fun
Simple things are always better," Knerr told me two years ago, when I interviewed him for an Ideas story about how his toys compared with today's top-selling educational playthings. (Knerr was nearly 80 at the time, but told me, "mentally, I'm still about 15.") But while much has been said about the elegance of Wham-O's iconic product line, Knerr was more modest about his company's other great innovation. Long before the term "viral marketing" came to be, decades before anyone thought of hanging lights on bridges to promote a cartoon to hipsters, Knerr and Melin understood the power of word of mouth. The joys of a Wham-O product, after all, weren't always easy to describe. But kids quickly latched onto a concrete demonstration. When it came to the Superball, "all you had to do was bounce one," Knerr recalled, "and every kid that could see it wanted one." Knerr and Melin worked hard to find that sort of product, and they took ideas from everywhere.
Misfits on a mission to delete us all
It could be the expiring year, or it might be me. One way or the other, I suspect that humanity is on the way out. Are we still sentient beings, capable of compassion? Or are we mutating into machines, with prosthetic bodies and brains that have been programmed like computers? Consider the behaviour of Pekka-Eric Auvinen, a withdrawn and sullen teenager from a drab town outside Helsinki, who one morning in November took his gun to school. Methodically stalking the corridors and politely knocking on doors, he shot dead eight students and teachers, then killed himself. A gratuitous act, mad because motiveless? No, Auvinen was acting out a scenario he had publicised earlier that day on YouTube. Here he wrote, directed and starred in the film of his brief life; he even predicted his death, announcing that he was 'the dictator and god' of his own existence and refusing to remain in a world overrun by 'weak-minded masses'.
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