it's now the most highly requested athletic field in our system. franklin square, that's a facility we actually renovated with synthetic turf in 2002 before the initiative. we added lights to increase play at that facility. south sunset on the west edge of the city, another success. crocker am adon playground, one of our theme primary ground sports facilities. this facility actually hosted three soccer fields before we did the renovations and through creative alignment we were able to add two additional soccer fields in the same footprint so we now have five full soccer fields the kimball in the western addition. nestled between two high schools we know this is highly utilized by youth organizations and neighborhood teams. it is a bustling facility out in the western addition. mission dolores. this say project that just had its first phase ribbon cutting tuesday of this week. it was an asphalt athletic field and we len 0 vated it with synthetic turf. it's a multifaze project. it was -- multiphase project. it was opened on tuesday and the latter hal

there's a lot of uncertainty about their athletic future. it might lead to their retirement which is another area where we've seen suicide occurs, particularly in the professional sports world. >> what can we do? how can we prevent this? >> one way is literally for people to be aware that athletes can go in that direction. to educate people about the kinds of areas where athletes get into trouble so we can kind of start to try to effect some change before things get to such a dire point, recognizing that athletes do get depressed and that they need treatment for depression or that they have anxiety disorders or eating disorders that can lead to depression and suicide. eating disortds are associate -- disorders are associated with the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder. when you have let's say a young gymnast who is struggling to keep her weight down so that she can perform optimally and her eating disorder gets so far out of control, there have been cases of deaths. >> dr. im au -- dr. baum, thank you. i hate to cut you off b

his parents pushed them to be successful, because i think it has to come from the athlete.when you talk about andre agassi, there was still a drive. >> to go through that at some point. >> and i think any athlete might feel that way. in the same way that swimming is an individual sport. you only have yourself to count on an yourself to motivate. if a team is relying on you, i always dreamed of being in a team sport, because you have these people relying on you, how great is that, but when you are getting out there every day, motivation is an issue, and you get a little tired of it, and i have an inner drive, and i still have the inner drive. tavis: i am just curious now. i wonder if you have some thoughts on the michael phelps situation. he is a world champion, and everyone likes him, and we all make mistakes. and i ask his baggage you navigate your fame and fortune so well, and i know that there are a lot of americans pulling for you this time around, and we want to see you succeed again, but what were your thoughts when phelps got caught, and when you become famous overni

currently in college, mentor high school athletes, the high school athletes mentor the youth leagueletewhat it does helps them transition into their next phase, of athletics. >> i think that we can talkability it for a long time but you have reached your full potential. thank you for letting us be here this morning i want to get on over here to ronald, our baseball coach good morning. >> good morning. >> let's talk about our future players here there is a whole new natitude. >> we do sports enhancement, basically we just say pitching 300 pounds isn't quite the same as hitting home runs we are isolating the movement between their arm and legs and use them for resistance on all of the hitting movements we use in baseball. >>> the key about this, you will not find this at a regular gym. >> no, we got a lot of thingput it together to get resistance. >> any future bryce harpers. >> right over here. >> you say it here first thank you very much myfoxdc.com our website we have a link to skills unlimited if you want to find out more about them and opportunities here, we are going to have mor

you're here with the best athletes in the world. some of them have made their name and to train with them is great. >> and you've got people like you, ordinary locals who want to get that success. out training with world and olympic champions. >> yes. when you go out in the morning there's four or five people. you can join in with the groups. and gives you a lot of encouragement for your improvement. >> clearly for the young people, they see role models. do you hope some of that gold medal star dust will rub off on you? >> yes. and when you are here, you get to see where they train and you always learn something when you're here. >> people talk about the altitude. obviously that helps. their diet. is there other things that help their success? >> it's a very basic lifestyle. they heat very health lyrics basic diet. then run day in and day out and month in and month out. >> when you leave here what do you take with you? >> the benefit of the altitude, first of all. that's the main thing. but you're taking encouragement from runing wi

>> i wasn't an athlete at all.n you came on the radio show in january, less than five months ago, my coach april and i went out to a 5k course near the house, and we walked it, and i ran one little quarter mile distance. that was a start. like three or four minutes running. and every week, i would get out there and just put one foot in front of the other. if i started at three minutes, i tried to go to 3:30, and then 4:00. >> one of the things we hope to get ow of this challenge is obvious lly helping people like you and then having you help and inspire a lot of other people. you're a well known radio dj. what has the respaunts been? >> kind of mind blowing because i get every single day with e-mail or some sort of social media a note from somebody calling me an inspiration. and that's not something that i ever would have considered myself. i never would put myself in the category of somebody who inspires. but i think people are just excited at the fact that 4 1/2 months ago, i was barely doing a quarter mile. and

so, how did this athlete shimy and shake his way to the top?takes us on a tour through seven years of fancy foot work so that next season you might be able to predict the winner. ♪ >> reporter: katherine jenkins brought her charm and impeccable technique. >> a perfect score for kathryn. a total of 90 out of 90. >> reporter: william levy turned on the matchiz mo. but it was donald driver who pulled out a clutch performance as the fifth nfl great and won the night. >> the new champion of "dancing with the stars," donald and peta. >> this is amazing. to win something, truly special and i'm glad they won per peta. this is the ultimate milestone for her. now she's the champ of "dancing with the stars." >> reporter: so we wondered what does this take to shimmy and shake your way to within an arm's length of the mirror ball. all three finalists came into the finals neck and neck. >> all three of you are absolute winners. >> all three of this year's finalists were in excellent physical shape. they could pull off any move. they didn't hurt themselves do

i wasn't an athlete at all.ct, when you came on the radio show in january, what, less than five months ago, my coach, april and i, about a week april went out to this 5k course near the house and we walked it, and i ran one little quarter mile distance. that was a start. it was, like, three or four minutes running, and every week i would get out there, and just put one foot in front of the another. if i started at three minutes, i would try to go to 3:30 and then four. >> one of the things we hope to get out of this triathlon challenge is helping people like you that having you help and inspire a lot of other people. you're a very well known radio dj. a lot of people listen to you. what's the response been? >> you know what, it's been kind of mind-blowing, because i get every single day with e-mail or some sort of social media a note from somebody calling me an inspiration, and that's not something that i ever would have considered myself. i never would have put myself in the category of somebody who inspires. i

it sounds like more work for the athlete. >> it's much more work for the athlete, not so much. going to the facebook application, liking us, programming in their basic information that all the@looets have included -- the athletes have included in. on their bucket list they should have going to an olympic game on their list. if you go to our facebook application you will be entered into a sweep stakes to be entered to go. >> think about it, when no, dominique was -- when dominique was competing, when the swimmers were representing the country, how we could have followed you guys and made it more hometownful this is cool. >> it could have. it would have been great to have social media connections back then but that was two decades ago. >> you can keep up with no, do -- with dominique, other folks. samsung props helping out the olympics. the teams and fan fans. ladies -- fans. ladies, our time has run short. good luck. >> thank you . >> it's been nothing short of amazing. >> good luck with those orthotics. >> done deal. i'll explain it all. you're my hero. thank you you. see you l

in the works we have six athletic fields with light renovations. beach chalet which we're talking about today and the renovations we are proposing at the muni facility why synthetic turf is the big question. simply put, it allows us to utilize these fields year round, from morning to night. we don't have to close these facilities like we do natural turf fields because of rain, rest, and regrowth. they're extremely safe, they're a lesm playing surface. they don't have geoffer holes or irregular surfaces creating problems for our youth on the fields the in 2008 we went through a very exhaustive task force that found that the synthetic turf was a safe product. also the e.i.r. process we went through identified that it's a safe program. there are other side benefits to our program that have come to light as part of it, as far as environmental improvements. obviously synthetic turf we don't have to water. we estimate we save 1.5 million gallons -- gallons of water on a single field, roughry 75 million gallons saved annually. we don't have to put herb i

item five is approving the beach shall lead athletic fields renovation conceptual plan and making financefindings of consistency with the golden gate park master plan and findings under the california environmental quality act for recreation and park commission action only. commissioners, the order of business today is for there to be all of the staff reports from both departments and project sponsors, followed by a single public comment category, and i will call back half that time, which would then -- once that is complete, the chair will close the public hearing, and the matter will be before both commissions for your considered action. with that, commissioners, staff. >> good afternoon -- >> excuse me, if i could just interrupt. i just heard the share of yelling in the hall that overflow is in room 408 -- i just heard the share of -- the sherriff yelled in the hall. >> good afternoon. during me tonight, the senior environmental planner, and environmental consultant with esa. the item before you today is a certification of the final environmental impact report for the proposed buell --

if we were talking about taking a new space that had never been athletic fields and making it athletic fields, i think we'd have a different conversation but i think to the extent that we are talking about a renovation of an existing facility, and the challenge that we have, that we don't maintain our open space very well, and someone mentioned golf courses. if you've looked at lincoln park, that golf course is a mess. and a lot of our facilities suffer. there's a controversial ballot measure about clay tower. i think a lot of people feel there's a lot of needs within our recreation and park facilities that we need to deal with and we don't have enough funds or resources to deal with those things and that is a reality and i don't see that's changing in the near future. i, myself, played soccer. i wouldn't prefer to play on turf. i would prefer to play on grass fields. that's what i played on. doesn't seem appealing to me to play on turf but as a former soccer player and as a stepmom to a soccer player where i spend my weekend at soccer tournaments, when you play soccer, you care about

and i did that. >> any athlete who's risen to the pro level has to be hooked.so hard with no guarantee of winning? >> beautiful. >> but why muscles? some women embrace body building for what it gives them on the surface. >> bring them down a little bit. arms down. beautiful. >> some appreciate it for the emotional rewards, they say it offers. for yet others, it's a coping mechanism that helps soothe a profound insecurity. are they perfect specimens or just perfect candidates for the psychiatrist's couch? maybe a little of both. >> among the women competitors that we have seen, they ranged from ones who were very much in control of their lives and were not compromising their social or occupational function in any way with their body building lifestyle, all the way to people at the other extreme who were profoundly distressed and profoundly compromised in terms of their ability to deal with the regular world. >> here's how christy hawkins put it in a recent e-mail, "i've always admitted that you have to be a little nuts to be a good body builder." but she goes on

he was an olympic athlete himself. the first palestinian to compete in the games.n 1996, he ran in the 10,000-meter race at the atlanta olympics. >> translator: he's a symbol of palestine. his success would make us all very proud. we'll all be cheering him on. >> reporter: with his help, he's getting ready for the upcoming london olympics. >> translator: my dream is to stand on the winner's podium as the palestinian flag is raised. and for palestine to be recognized as an independent state. >> reporter: that recognition means so much to palestinian athletes. for them, representing palestine in the olympics means more than winning. nhk world, gaza. >> all right. time now to check the world weather forecast with sayak sayaka mori. >> let's start off with asia. a new tropical storm has formed over the northwestern pacific. this is now packing winds of 65 kilometers per hour. already impacting the southern islands of southern mariana islands with very heavy rain and a strong wind. some strengthening is likely but will move away from the islands. up towards the north, s

don't say you are a terrible athlete, not around me. if you can breathe, you are an athlete. [applause] >> many young women admire you and all you have done in and outside of sports. who did you admire when you were growing up as a young girl? >> women are men? -- womenor men? my mother and father are a good team. they were good to each other. they love each other. my father passed away about six years ago. they helped each other. they were not afraid to cross the so-called female-male domain. my father would say, betty, put your feet up, i will cook tonight. they helped each other. my mother would usually defer to my father, there is that generation, but they were good and kind to each other. no one is perfect, but my brother and i saw that. they loved to dance, too. my parents loved it to swing dance. it is really important to have a sense of humor, too. what was the question? i am forgetting. rev. bob richards was a minister, a gold medalist pole vaulter in two olympics, and he was the minister of our church. every sunday he got sports into every sermon. i was there hangin

. >>> a paralympic athlete from baltimore received special recognition from first lady michelle obama. swimmer jessica long had her legs amputated as a baby. now she has seven gold medals. she says meeting the first lady was even cooler than winning the gold. mrs. obama said she hopes jessica and other olympic athletes inspire children to be active and fit. >> as a child, jessica watched

states every year on a playing field. >> ama: 900 athletes signed up for the free test. 9% of the athletes had abnormal ekgs. >> alan: this weekend you can catch a glimpse of a rare solar eclipse. the ring of fire eclips when the move moves across the sun, block everything but a halo oflight. the prime viewing tomorrow tomorrow is 6:00 30. here in the bay area we'll see a partial eclipse. more like a c rather than a halo. last ring of fire eclipse was not 1994, and make sure you have protective eye wear when viewing. >> ama: don't look at it unless you're wearing this. i don't know how you can see it. i can't see anything. >> alan: they're like little welder glasses but you can get them at any science store. >> leigh: or just take a little pin, stick it through the paper like this, and then put it down, and you can look down on it. don't look directly at the sun. >> ama: look down? >> leigh: on the piece of paper. >> alan: but it's cooler with the glasses. >> ama: you look so cool, leigh. >> leigh: i know. i'm going to take you somewhere where you need some shades. let's go to the beach. s

calling meadows athletic fields renders them one purpose use. the functions they fulfill our negated because of this. it makes it that much easier to steal these resources, and to diminish the park as a whole. i strongly urge you not to certify it this eir. thank you. commissioner borden: [ -- president buell: [names are called] if you are ready. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is steve. i am a father of two soccer girls. i have lived in san francisco for 32 years. i would urge you to accept the eir. it has set aside any reservations we might have about what this is going to be. i love the san francisco sense of community. i find the recreational facilities are a big part of that. this will only build on that. i have gone to see my daughters play. you discovered it is not only for kids. it is for people who do not play soccer. it is a community-building facility. i think this will do the same thing for what is pretty much an underused area of golden gate park, particularly because it cannot be used for soccer often. i appreciate your tim

>> i'm a former maryland athlete. and i knew a lot of people in the athletic department who were affected by his death. some very personally. i have written three other books and now is the time to do it. i saw the documentary in late 2009. >> let's talk about some of the people hurt badly. not anyone more badly than the coach at the time. his career at maryland was completely ruined. >> well, one person who i think was affected more than lefty. lefty came back and coached and had a good college career. he didn't leave maryland the way he wanted to. the athletic director was a good friend of mine. he was a mentor of mine. dick had a very tough time for 10 to 12 years. he's interestingly working at hood college in frederick in the athletic department. he turned around , but it took a while. >> i think there should have been blame, but not to the extent they were blamed. len made a bad decision. it affected his friends and family and a will the of people personally. it was his decision and nobody's alone. maybe they cou

and ucsf posted a unique work shop for athletes that happen to be amputees. they want to shine a light on what is possible for them these days. a veteran amputee critiques a video of him receive. this gathering of athletes is a chance to learn from one another. >> i've been coming here since i lost my leg. i stood by ucsf. they stood by me. >> the 29-year-old was diagnosed at age is a. he had the running leg only nine months and headed to the paraolympics trial next month. >> i can ramp up training and get more explosiveness out of the leg and this is allowing me to do what boy do if i was an able bodied athlete. >> he couldn't have done it without support from the amputee clinic. then they have to relearn mechanics of running, biking, boxing, you name it. this 47-year-old is a marathonner that lost his leg 22 years ago. >> there is a highway with no other cars around. so... i was very fortunate. >> also very fortunate off the prosthetic maker author give him most of the prosthetics. this one has a carbon fiber blade. >> idea is that fibers of the blade contr

european of masters athletic and madrid beat athletic bilbao three nil in bucharest to win the second europa league title in three years. world number three roger federer is given a scan by miller's run it on his way to the round of the madrid masters. the sky's the limit in sky running spaniard louis hyundai's sets a new record as he reaches the peak of mt albert in just three hours and forty one minute. but first athletic or madrid have won their second europa league title in three years they beat fellow spanish side athletic bilbao three mail in bucharest it was a rather one sided contest from start to finish with striker falcao scoring twice in the first half to put his side in control he became the first player in history to win the competition with two different clubs in two years people are being also now twenty nine goals in the tournament in twenty nine a period appearances diego completed the scoring with five minutes to go i now need to pick themselves up ahead of the cup at the right final later this month. while action on the pitch was marred by trouble off it in the span

i am a high school athletic director. i spent five years running san francisco delete here in the city. i am very much -- san francisco little league here in this city. i am very much in favor of this project. as a high school athletic director, we struggled with the condition of the grass fields in the city. we have parents that that does not to send our teams to play at feels that have become degraded and dangerous. we send our kids there and a kid gets injured, we felt horrible. the synthetic turf fields are the safest fields in the city. from an athletic director perspective, this is a fantastic project. as a former president of the youth sports organization, speaking on behalf of the people the care about their kids, i want to say how when pour into this project is. these people give us so much of their free time to the kids of the city and to be supported by the city is a fantastic thing. this eir process -- we understand the process needs to happen. please accept the eir. do not accept reasons that we do not believ

headphones basically designed by athletes for athletes. they are sweat proof, they are waterproof.are designed specifically with silicone so they kind of adjust to the shape of your ear and you put them in and lock them and they stay. >> i've developed all these terrible awful methods of keeping your earbuds in like wearing headbands over your ears. >> you know what, guys? let's test them out. i got us all some! >> and it's not even christmas yet. >> put them in, then you twist and you lock. >> twist which way? >> look at your instruction card. >> insert horn, twist and lock into place. >> you get it? >> you go like this to lock them in so these parts shoot forward. >> and you can answer your phone. >> am i talking really loud? my music sounds good. they have a good sound, too. >> would you be quiet? i'm trying to listen. >> i don't think they're going to fall out when i'm running. somebody call me real quick. i want to see if it works. >>> if you tweet a picture of yourself using earbuds with #beyond the wall, the person who gets the most votes gets a trip to hawaii to the ironman

possibly the biggest news to come out of spartan athletics in more than a decade. san jose state will join the mountain west conference next year. here's a look at what the ending will mean. after much speculation for the fate, all questions were finally put to rest. >> today is an exciting day for spartan athletics and for san jose university. i'm pleased to announce we accepted an invitation to join the mountain west conference. >> the announcement a week ago came after weeks of uncertainty. where they saw former elect director depart for the university of memphis and utah state jumping aboard the mountain west as well. and with the western athletic conference spiraling after the recent loss to boise state, hawaii, fresno state, and nevada, it was important for san jose state to find some stable ground. >> kids ask you what conference you're going to be in and so now that we know, we are in the mountain west and we'll play there and it's a traditional conference and here we go, we're excited about that. >> with the recent edition of women's outdoor track. 14 of t

did we used an athletic department is to consider the fact that perhaps there is another athlete on theteam who could really use this scholarship. >>> she's had to rely on loans to put ourselves ucla to do wonders for the university should implement strict standards for which families can get scholarships being considered their economies students return to get to college. corporate ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, in the coastline starting to make the where onshore capacity tonight and the day as some of the allison tomorrow lots of sunshine may be out of the beaches with more son and some pretty mild temperatures even for the coast has in the afternoon tomorrow around 18¢ a should a gorgeous day. oakland and sunny 65 degrees in a breezy and san francisco. so's the look out of the next couple of days high-pressure cranky of the temperatures you may just crack 90 as begin to thursday but by friday little bit more of a sea breeze kicks in with a temperature setting to drop off the looks like this next weekend is going to much cooler around the bay area. that's a look at whether. >>> 3 williams making big n

they hope more retailers will get on board as more athletes suit up in their apparel. lauren green, fox news. >>> near fall over baltimore's inner harbor. tight rope walker is moving on to his next stunt. he took his first practice walk today. this is the first time anyone has tried to walk across the historic water fall. his crew members had to add more weight to the wire after it felt like it was rolling under his feed. he is going to attempt to cross the falls next month. all right, why? >> brave guy. >> death defying feet. >> i do not want to do that. >> let's talk about mother's day. it's not going to be a washout, so what can we expect? >> we'll get to that. >> oh, you tease. >> i have a walk to do first. but today was a gorgeous day. beautiful outside. plenty of sunshine. let's have a live look outside right now. clouds are rolling in and they aren't going anywhere into the course of tonight. so cloudy skies. we had plenty of sun today and not only that, it was warm. temperatures were above the seasonal average also, and tonight, it is still mild outside. it's a

in a sport like mine i let me surgery's in my body took it took a toll on my body. >>> athletes run the risk of premature labor and their bodies into the ground to the evil believes going caveman will help to bring hers' back. it's time to reverse the clock on that and to diet is probably the biggest thing you can do for your help sell the very clean. >>> with paley of that means me finish poultry nets concede snow grains and for even almost a dairy. >>> as for paley of restoring her body still may have a point. >>> their elements of westernized non bailey of foods that promote inflammation. dr. loren calmer day and is the godfather of the modern paly movements he says a western diet promotes in place in the guts and that's been linked to inflammation in the joint. >>> in pale yellow and experience a change. the equate at its the way it makes you feel. you feel better. did ways ucsf research shows the paley died can also stabilize insulin as well as blood sugar levels which is good for the body and mind. i feel like a more stable and even kill a person. she still sharper and more fo

high school athletes from more than 60 public and private high schools.ne place for one message, how to play sports save, fair, and sober. >> we have looked at role models and other athletes. we want to learn by people's mistakes so we do not make the same ones. >> mike gimbel, a recovering addict and drug experts, has been the face of this campaign aimed at student athletes. >> it is not like just steroids and drugs and alcohol abuse. there are other issues about dating, eating properly, about gambling, things we do not normally think about with student athletes. >> an international soccer star and recovering addict talked to students about how he went from success to drugs, and now to a life of second chances. >> anytime you can relate to a young guy that has been through it, that is why i get really excited about this. they can put themselves in my shoes. >> what was it he said that really touched you? >> he said how hard he works, how badly he wanted it, which makes me want to work harder. >> second chances are possible. >> a message echoed by congres