Coach Occh is now putting on motivational assemblies around the country. Want to see Ball For Lives in your school or church? Scroll down below for info for the 2009-2010 school year. What started Ball For Lives in the first place was the idea that basketball had the power to captivate...

Gilbert Arenas & Occh On Friday, April 4th, I had the opportunity of meeting Washington Wizards All-Star Gilbert Arenas. After Spalding donated basketballs to my NYC Marathon run, I sent in one of the marathon pictures for a photo contest they were having. My photo won and the...

After dribbling the New York City Marathon in November 2007, I was contacted by Dime Magazine, a major basketball magazine for people who love the basketball lifestyle. I wasn’t sure how big Dime was until I saw Adidas advertising on their website and Shaq on the front cover of...

Finally the race started. The Verrazano was much less crowded than I thought, and I had plenty of room to dribble. I was still a little nervous doing something crazy like this in front of so many people. But then something great began to happen. People who didn’t even know me would...

For the four months that I trained for the New York City Marathon, it wasn’t quite registering in my mind that I would actually be running in it (never mind dribbling it with a basketball)! Then, on the Thursday night before the race, my friend Ron (who ran with me) and I had to...

As I was growing up, I spent countless hours down in my basement practicing my ball handling. When you spend as much time as I did, you need to have a lot of drills! Playing four years of varsity basketball, four years of college basketball, coaching for over three years, and leading...

The Crossover Sequence video was created with the idea that practicing ball handling doesn’t have to be boring and should always be challenging. I personally believe that most players don’t practice their dribbling because they don’t find it fun or interesting....

Like most of you, I grew up playing basketball. Yeah, “playing basketball” doesn’t really do it justice does it? I was obsessed! My brother John brought me to a gym when I was 9 years old, and I remember staying for 4 hours playing this incredible game. The next day I stayed...