Cremins retires from coaching
Posted: March 20, 2012 at 1:37 am
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Cremins retires
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CHARLESTON, S.C. Bobby Cremins retired Monday as mens basketball coach at the College of Charleston, nearly two months after he left the team and went on a medical leave of absence.
Cremins addressed players, friends and administrators on the floor of TD Arena, where his voice cracked with emotion and he fought back tears in announcing the end to his coaching career.
With the blessings of my family, my team, staff, friends, and the College of Charleston, I have decided to retire as our coach, Cremins said.
The 64-year-old Cremins announced on Jan. 27 that he would miss the rest of the Cougars season and later said he was physically exhausted. Cremins went on an indefinite medical leave of absence but said his condition was not life-threatening.
College of Charleston athletic director Joe Hull said at the time that he planned to speak with Cremins over the next few weeks to determine it the coach will be out even longer.
It was unfortunate what happened to me in late January. I didnt like what happened and Ill never know why, Cremins said. Our bodies sometimes send us signals, so we have to listen. The silver lining is that my staff, led by Mark Byington, my team, my school, they had my back and they responded in a special way.
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Bayne brings experience to coaching Titans
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Brett Bayne has been around baseball most of his life. He began playing baseball at the age of 5 in his hometown of Palatine. He even plays as an adult in a competitive league in his hometown during the summer. So it was no surprise that when a coaching position opened on the Titan baseball staff, he jumped for it.
Bayne, a Western Illinois graduate and current English teacher at MRHS, has been the JV coach for the Titan softball team for four years and compiled a record of just below .500 in his four years. Several of his players made the jump to varsity as underclassmen and that can be accredited to his coaching.
I am big on hustle. I will bench a kid if I feel they are disrespecting the game by not hustling, Bayne said. Im also a big team guy. We win as a team and we lose as a team.
Bayne joins head coach Chris Schwarz, who is in his second year as head coach of the Titans.
Coach Schwarz has done an excellent job of instilling a solid foundation here at M-R, Bayne said.
Bayne will be the head coach of the JV team and an assistant to Schwarz on the varsity. Bayne said he has already set goals for his JV squad.
We want to have a winning record, he said. In addition I want to make sure I have equipped the kids with the skills to perform well at the varsity level.
Bayne is also optimistic about the varsity squad.
After seeing what they can do at practice, I would be scared if I were the other teams in our conference, Bayne said. We have a pretty deep squad.
Overall Bayne is excited for the opportunity to bring success to the baseball program at M-R.
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Jerry Sloan Should Not Take the New York Knicks' Coaching Job
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COMMENTARY | What have we learned from the Mike D'Antoni experiment with the New York Knicks?
Coaches who can't handle media and fan pressure to win a championship now can not sit on the sideline of the basketball team in the biggest NBA market.
Also, if the star player, in this case Carmelo Anthony, doesn't get what he wants, New York is ready to make any change to make his life better. Anthony didn't want to do what D'Antoni asked him to do on the court, so he didn't. Instead of the front office backing their coach, it took sides with Anthony; the player they made a blockbuster trade with the Denver Nuggets to acquire right around this time last year.
This led to D'Antoni leaving the Knicks. If he didn't quit, he surely would have been canned in a matter of weeks.
Ex-Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan has been mentioned in filling the shoes left by D'Antoni that Mike Woodson is temporally sizing. If the former long time coach of the Jazz (1988-2011) took the job, the same kind of situation would happen.
In my mind, Sloan is a far superior coach to D'Antoni. He has won 1,221 games for a winning percentage of 60% compared to D'Antoni's 388 wins and 53%. Sloan has coached in far more overall games than D'Antoni so it isn't fair off of numbers, but Sloan was never surrounded in the controversy D'Antoni has been in his shorter career.
Not only was D'Antoni in the fire with New York for most of his three and a half seasons there, but he was roasting in Phoenix (2003-08) when the Suns didn't play any defense and couldn't get to the finals with arguably a top five point guard to ever play in the NBA: Steve Nash.
Even though I think Sloan is a better coach and would improve the Knicks from their current slumber, Sloan would get the axe or quit in a short time span as well.
Sloan didn't quit because of fights or quarrels with his two superstars - Karl Malone and John Stockton - but left Utah in 2011 when Deron Williams shared words with him. In a press conference around the time he resigned from Utah, Sloan said "I've had player confrontations for as long as I've been in the league. My energy is not as high as it used to be."
If Sloan didn't have the energy a year ago with a small market team, how is he going to have the energy now as coach of the gaudy and well followed Knicks? He wouldn't.
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Citigym marks 6th anniversary with health and fitness events
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CEBU, Philippines - In line with its 6th year anniversary, Citigym organizes a unique event that will further promote health and fitness in Cebu.
On March 30, Citigym will hold a 'Fitness and Wellness Fair' from 8 am to 9 pm at the Balearic- Tazman rooms of Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino.
For a minimal fee of P100, one could take part in boxing sparring from 9 am to 7 pm and some fat burning cardio sessions such as ala zumba, belly dancing, hip-hop aerobics and beach body workout from 8 to 9 am and from 5 to 6 pm.
Citigym has also invited experts to talk about different topics as well as guide the participants on health and fitness activities.
The program includes Effective Exercise (no equipment needed) by Anne Manubag of American Council on Exercise (9:15-10:15am), Triathlon 101 by Cebuano elite triathlete Noy Jopson (10:30-11:30am), True Yoga Beginnings off the Mat (mixed level) by registered Yoga Teachers Kaye Luym and Robert Vechionni (1:30-2:30pm), Heal yourself with energy (A healthy alternative to medicines), Reike, Kalimasada and Pranic Healing (2:40-3:40pm), Modern Day Warriors thru Mixed Martial Arts: Jiu-Jitsu, Capoeira, Taekwondo and Wing Chun (3:40-4:50pm) and Trigger Point Therapy Training: Ultimate 6 Fundamentals, Myofascial Compression Techniques for sports coaches, personal trainers and athletes by Ultimate 6 Master Trainer Linzi Arellano-Co (4:30-6:30pm).
Citigym will also hold the fitness challenge 2012 on March 23 where teams get to compete and test where their workout has taken them.
Interested participants shall form a four-person team with at least one female member. One member will compete separately in the swim, bike and run challenges. The whole challenge would be a race to complete everything with the fastest time.
Aside from the swim, bike and run, mental challenges and surprise fun tasks have also been included in the race. - (THE FREEMAN)
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Health and Fitness: Fusion Fitness Announces Grand Opening
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(Dallas, TX): Fusion Fitness is opening the first fitness studio in the hip, up and coming Design District. Lander Peerman, owner of Fusion is hosting a Grand Opening Party on Saturday, April 14th from 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM with brunch bites, mimosas, and some amazing swag bags for the first 25 guests. She will be discounting all the Fusion classes for those people who sign up that day and giving two free class passes to everyone who comes to the celebration. There will also be a LuLuLemon gift card raffle for one lucky winner. Residents in the Design District are excited to finally have a fitness studio in the area.
Fusion Fitness offers private training, duet training, small group training, and group fitness classes. Fusion strides itself on Speed, Strength and Stretch. It's the one workout that combines them all. Blast calories with a fast-paced cardio routine, tone and sculpt with resistance exercises to strengthen your entire body, tighten your core and elongate your posture with pilates poses. Fusion Fitness is the only workout that will change your body and your life. Be Fusion Forward.
Class Schedule: (60 Minute Classes) Monday & Wednesday: 6:30 AM, 8:00 AM, 9:45 AM, 4:30 PM, and 6:00 PM Tuesday & Thursday: 9:30 AM, 12:00 PM, and 5:30 PM Friday: 8:00 AM, 9:45 PM, 12:00 PM, and 5:30 PM Saturday: 9:30 AM and 11:00 AM
For pricing on classes, group fitness rates or training packages contact Lander Peerman at info@fusionfitnessdallas.com.
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Judy Diamond Associates Launches Online Database to Allow Institutions Selling Retirement Products to Target TPAs of …
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WASHINGTON, March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Judy Diamond Associates, the premier publisher of retirement industry prospecting tools and plan data, today announced the launch of the all-new Directory of Retirement TPAs, the best online source for searchable data on hundreds of third party administrators of 401(k) and retirement plans. Judy Diamond Associates obtains the information from the TPAs themselves annually and verifies the firms before including them.
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The Directory of Retirement TPAs, formerly available only in print as the Directory of Third Party Retirement Plan Administrators, is a searchable, online database of contact and business information for third party retirement plan administrators. It provides financial institutions that sell a wide array of retirement products with a single source for selecting TPAs to administer their retirement offerings based on information provided by the administrators themselves. Information available to subscribers includes:
"Finding qualified TPAs who specialize in retirement products is a particular challenge for many financial institutions," said Steve Weitzner, CEO of Summit Business Media, which owns Judy Diamond Associates. "The Directory of Retirement TPAs compiles the largest collection of TPA business and contact information in the industry to deliver exactly what the market needs to identify the best administrators by using simple but effective search tools built into the database."
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4 moves to make you confident of your retirement
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(MoneyWatch) The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) recently released its 2012 Retirement Confidence Survey, and the results are quite depressing.
-- Just 14 percent of survey respondents are very confident they'll have enough money to live comfortably in retirement. These results are the same as what was reported in 2009 and 2011.
-- Almost half of all survey respondents -- 42 percent -- cite job uncertainty as the most pressing financial issue facing most Americans. Only about one-fourth, or 28 percent, are very confident they'll have paid employment as long as they need it.
-- Many workers report they have virtually no savings; 60 percent say that the total value of their household savings is less than $25,000, excluding the value of their home and any pension benefits they expect to receive.
-- Almost two-thirds of respondents (62 percent) consider their current level of debt to be a problem.
-- Only 16 percent of those surveyed are very confident that their investments will grow in value.
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Is there any good news about retirement out there? Being an optimist, my natural inclination is to dig deeper into the report to find some helpful insights, and I was successful in finding suggestions that can help increase your retirement confidence. These four suggestions might be difficult to implement, but nevertheless, they point to the tough steps people need to take to boost their retirement confidence.
1. Pay down your debt.
The percentage of employed people who reported that their level of debt is not a problem and that they have confidence in their ability to retire is more than five times higher than the percentage of workers who report that debt is a problem. Paying down your debt now -- before you retire and most likely will have less money coming in -- is one of the smartest steps you can take to create a stress-free retirement.
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American Workers Insecure About Retirement Savings, Jobs
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A new report indicates that Americans' confidence in their ability to retire comfortably remains near historic lows, and that many are also still concerned about job security.
The 2012 Retirement Confidence Survey, published by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, is the longest running retirement survey of its kind. It polls both workers and retirees on their perceptions of issues such as savings, job security and retirement, and the edition released this month revealed several troubling facts for American workers.
Retirement confidence remains historically low
The survey found only 14% of workers are very confident they will have the money needed to live comfortably in retirement.
Perhaps it is not surprising then that today's workers expect to stay employed longer. While only 11% of workers in 1991 expected to work past age 65, the most recent survey discovered 37% believe they will be working beyond that age.
However, some workers may find they have limited say in when they retire. The 2012 survey found half of current retirees left the workforce for reasons outside their control such as disabilities or downsizing.
Retirement savings not a priority
Workers may not feel prepared for retirement because many are not actively planning for it. Only 19% of workers feel very confident they are doing a good job preparing for retirement. Moreover, 56% of workers say they and/or their spouse have not tried to calculate how much they will need in retirement savings in order to live comfortably.
In addition, only 58% of workers are currently saving for retirement. Income appears to play a significant factor in whether a worker has saved money. Of those with household incomes greater than $75,000 annually, 93% have saved for retirement, compared to 35% of those earning less than $35,000.
For retirees, only slightly more than a quarter feel very confident they did a good job preparing for their retirement. Social Security is identified as a major source of income by 69% of current retirees.
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