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Shrink-wrapped help for your teams

By Gregg Easterbrook
Page 2 columnist

Tuesday, October 8, 2002

The Jacksonville Jaguars have retained a "sports psychologist" to help players think winning thoughts. So far, Jax is getting its money's worth, with a big win Sunday over the Eagles. This is not the first time an NFL team has gone to head doctors. During the 1970s, the Cowboys fell for a supposed cranium-enhancing program called SyberVision that was to allow players to "dream visualize" success. And Ryan Leaf, as everyone knows, was turned into a great NFL quarterback by the psychiatrist Bobby ...

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