A Chinese friend of mine once told me that his grandmother, who had passed away a couple of years earlier, visited him in a dream. He noticed that her clothes were shabby and her hair unkempt. So, come Qingming festival, he made sure he bought plenty of paper money to burn for her.Q. Congrats, Louisville men and women. The women, especially.

With a plot twist like that, you are destined to write many a harrowing athlete story, some of which we have seen in the headlines from Tiger to Zambrano to Roethlisberger. Even more of such stories remain imperceptible to us, expressed only in the thought bubbles above the heads of athletes: things that do not get spoken, yet create situations of ambivalence or "stuckness." These athletes are shuffled around, ignored, or fall victim to rationalizations that their sheer willpower can fix their problems. This great statement I first heard from my executive coaching colleague, Marshall Goldsmith, in his brilliant book of the sa