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Why Sports Parents Sometimes Behave So Badly

By Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi — 2018

Youth sports organizations are increasingly reporting scenarios in which parents yell, threaten or physically assault coaches, referees, players or other parents.

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This Is Your Brain on Sports: Beating Blocks, Slumps and Performance Anxiety for Good!

This book introduces the breakthrough concept of STSD (Sport Traumatic Stress Disorder). Grand and Goldberg have discovered that STSDs are the cause of most significant performance problems.

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David Grand, Alan Goldberg
2025
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My Yips Story

A former collegiate softball player talks about her struggles with mental health and the Yips during her career.

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2020
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Charles Barkley: Golf Yips Cures! Doctor Explains Science of the Yips

Charles Barkley has long been known for having some of the worst yips in his golf swing ever, yet now it appears the NBA hall of famer has fixed his swing and cured his golf swing yips! In this video we’ll review the science of the yips (there’s more than you’d think) and review what was...

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2021
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The Phenomenon: Pressure, the Yips, and the Pitch that Changed My Life

The Phenomenon is the story of how St. Louis Cardinals prodigy Rick Ankiel lost his once-in-a-generation ability to pitch—not due to an injury or a bolt of lightning, but a mysterious anxiety condition widely known as “the Yips.

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Rick Ankiel, Tim Brown
2025
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