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The Basketball Playbook -- This is a super site. The free Basketball Playbook is a coaching tool designed to help coaches design and distribute their own plays and drills. Main features include: the ability to store plays in a database; a design tool to sketch basketball plays and drills, an animation screen to help you follow the flow of plays, and a text editor to describe your plays and drills. In addition, you can export plays to and import plays from other users of this program, and print graphics of plays. For direct download links, go to: http://home.hccnet.nl/j.e. smit/download.html
Coaching Science Abstracts -- These abstracts interpret research articles for practicing coaches and others interested in applied sport science from the personal files of a professor. Most articles are interpreted for coaches of elite athletes and programs, and the contents are changed monthly. There are usually six issues a year. Looks interesting and worth checking. As far as FCP could tell, this zine is free.
Michael Wells' Basketball Coaching Information Web Page -- Great coaching page for high school basketball coaches. Coach Wells shares his experience and insight to help improve the coaching skills of others.
Time Out-A Monthly Basketball Clinic -- Click on Basketball at opening menu. A subscription webzine for coaching that looks very informative. Some diagrams on opening pages. Check it out. This web site produces newsletters for several sports and has lots of good basketball content. The "Play of the Month" feature also appears to be quite useful.
Tom Lynch's Basketball World --Great coaching page. Contents include an excellent article on teaching the art of shooting, an essay that addresses questions about improving young players, an outline for running a youth program, and ideas about how to win games at the youth level while teaching the important fundamentals.
Women's Basketball Coaches' Association -- This is the official site of the 5000-member organization serving primarily full-time college head and assistant coaches at two- and four-year institutions, but all are invited to join at various levels, from player to grammar school coach. Their official membership mag is Coaching Women's Basketball, which features coaching profession tips, techniques and tactics, sports psychology, athletic management, interviews, products and more. In addition they also publish Fastbreak Alert which offers info on legislative issues concerning women's basketball and At the Buzzer, which includes drills, specialty plays and advice geared specifically for high school coaches. A worthwhile organization for anyone interested in women's basketball at any level.
