Cyber Max

If you have loved sports since you were a child, but you are having trouble playing to your potential or you are simply too pressured by ideas of perfection to participate, there is a way for you to get back in the game. Anxiety, pressure, stress, and outside expectations are all culprits in delaying your best game. You may have been a great baseball star in college, but as you’ve grown older, you doubt your ability to perform to the same level. Or perhaps you make a living with your sports ability, but the overwhelming
pressure from others and from your own expectations are ruining your performance.

Whatever the role of sports in your daily life, you can have all the benefits of play with the successful results you want. But first, you will need to take a look at the factors that are holding you back. The best way to do this is with the help of a professional. You don’t have to go to a psychiatrist or a psychologist to see what thoughts are holding you back. Often, a trained hypnotist is a great person to get to the bottom of these destructive thoughts.

You will look at the ways in which your reactions to people and events create your world. For example, if you played a superior game one weekend and bombed the next, you may have labeled yourself a loser. Failing to see the big picture and to emphasize your strong points while learning from your mistakes will keep you in the rut of failure thinking.
Many athletes say that the pressure from others, including family, friends, and the public, make them unable to perform to their best ability. But these pressures exist for everyone, not just sports figures. The trick is to take these opinions and realize your powerlessness over other’s feeling about you and your talent.

A hypnotherapist can help you to visualize success, to fill your mind with positive thoughts that will crowd out and negate the destructive ones that hold you back. So keep an open mind and try this method out before you dismiss it. You could be a few sessions away from your best game ever.

Keith MacLean is the mental training coach for athletes the world over. He can be contacted via his soccer site http://www.goalkeepertips.com.

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Billy Crystal’s one-man show is titled “700 Sundays.” NFL underdog bettors in 2005 may have felt this past season lasted 700 Sundays, as favorites ‘covered’ at a record rate. However, the current NFL season has totaled just 20 Sundays (including Christmas and New Year’s Day).

My free play for Friday is in the NBA. Take the Cle Cavaliers over the Ind Pacers at 7:05 ET. I’m traveling on Friday and will take a rare ‘pass’. Check back on Saturday, as my games will be available by 9:00 ET.

January 29 will mark the first Sunday in the last 21 with no NFL football, as everyone awaits Super Bowl XL in Detroit on February 5. The Steelers are either a 3 1/2 or four-point favorite with the total hovering around 47 or 47 1/2. Look for a week-long countdown to the Super Bowl beginning Monday.

In college hoops last night, No. 2 Duke had little trouble with Va Tech a second time around (no 40-foot final-second shot needed this time), winning 80-67 (game wasn’t as close as the score). No. 3 Memphis ended UAB’s 10-game winning streak by winning at home, 73-66.

In some late Pac-10 action, No. 10 Washington lost at Cal 71-69 and No. 17 UCLA won at Oregon, 56-49. Washington will travel to Maples Pavilion on Sunday, where the Huskies have lost 12 straight to the Cardinal.

There’s a light six-game schedule in Friday’s college hoops but loads of action on Saturday. ESPN and ESPN2 will combine to televise eight games on Saturday, beginning with Cincinnati at Georgetown (ESPN2) and Kansas at Iowa State (ESPN) at noon ET. Saturday’s coverage ends with Texas at Oklahoma on ESPN2 at 9:00 ET.

CBS features Arizona at North Carolina at 1:00 ET on Saturday and regional coverage at 1:00 ET on Sunday (either Arkansas at Kentucky or Indiana at Minnesota).

Southern Illinois owns the nation’s longest current home winning streak (33 straight) but the Salukis play at Illinois State on Saturday. However, both Gonzaga and Illinois (each with 32 straight home wins) play home games on Saturday, Gonzaga hosting Portland (8-12) and Illinois hosting Purdue (7-11).

The NBA weekend tips off with a busy 12-game schedule Friday night.The ESPN doubleheader has Cleveland at Indiana (7:05 ET) and the LA Clippers at Denver (9:35 ET).

The Pacers are finally rid of Ron Artest but just yesterday announced that Jermaine O’Neal will be out for at least eight weeks with a torn groin (OUCH!). Peja, acquired from the Kings for Artest, is not expected to play tonight. Indiana just lost at Cleveland this past Tuesday (96-66) and is currently a four-point home ‘dog’ (and climbing!) to the Cavs with a total of 181 1/2.

The Nuggets put their seven-game winning streak on the line tonight when the Clippers come to town (teams play again Saturday night in LA). Denver, after a disappointing 14-17 start (remember the Nuggets closed last year on a 25-4 run!), have gone 11-2 in January. Camby could be back in the lineup tonight and Denver is currently a six-point choice with a total of 196.

Other games to keep an eye on Friday night are Memphis at Detroit (Pistons are an eight-point choice with a total of 175 1/2), Sacramento at Boston (Celtics are favored by four with a total of 200) and Golden State at the LA Lakers (Lakers are a seven-point choice with a total of 207 1/2).

The Pistons are off to a 35-5 start, tying for the fourth-best 40-game start in NBA history. Memphis is the league’s top defensive team and beat the Psitons both times last year, before losing in double-OT earlier this year.

Artest will make his King debut in Boston tonight (has been out since December 6) and if history is any indicator, it may be a winning debut. The Kings have beaten the Celtics four straight times and in 10 of their last 11 meetings.

In the Stalpes Center, Kobe returns to the court for the first time since his 81-point effort last Sunday against the Raptors, when the Lakers host the Warriors.

Ness Notes will be available at 7:00 ET on Saturday and Sunday.

Larry Ness is a documented member of the Professional Handicappers League.
Read all of his articles at http://www.procappers.com/Larry_Ness.htm.

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Getting the right cheerleading uniforms may just be one of the most important things that you do for your team. In fact the cheerleading uniforms are just as important as the teams uniforms because the cheerleaders are representing the school as well. It does not matter if the cheerleading uniforms are for a high school team or for a college team, they need to look good and they need to match.

There is nothing worse than cheerleading uniforms that don’t match. Each and every member of the cheerleading squad has to have the same uniform on. There is only one small difference permitted and that is when there are both girls and boys on the team. In that case the colors and the style should be the same except for the fact that the girls will have a skirt and the boys will have on pants. That is the only difference that there should ever be when it comes to any cheerleading uniforms. If you take a look at the professional cheerleading uniforms and the cheerleading uniforms of other schools that is all the difference you will see.

There is a good reason for that as well. A cheerleading squad needs to be seen as a whole. Each individual should be considered just another piece of the over all puzzle, a limb if you will. If they did not dress the same and match then they would lose that uniform look and that would hurt the overall presence that they have. Their routines would not flow the same either. You see, cheerleading uniforms are there for a reason and that is to add to the routines and the entire feel of the show.

Cheerleading uniforms can be in any color, they are generally in the color of the school that they represent. IF they do not represent a school and they represent a pro team then the colors of the cheerleading uniforms are those colors. The colors are not as important as the styles. The cheerleading uniforms should be sexy and cute but never to over the top, they need to look good. Some of the cheerleading uniforms will have sequins on them while others will not, that all depends on the place the cheerleaders are from. There are all kinds of different cheerleading uniforms and they all have their own unique styles.

Most teams have their cheerleading uniforms specially made in order to stand out from the rest of the teams. They do not want to look like all the rest, they need to be unique and attractive in their own right. Some get their cheerleading uniforms online and then have them altered at a local tailor, it does not matter which way you choose to get your cheerleading uniforms as long as you have them in time for the game or match!

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