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I don’t know what it takes to get an NCAA athletics scholarship but I know what it takes to make a kid play like he/she is on scholarship. The sad part is when I’m too arrogant to share those insights without a snide jab as an appetizer. Case in Point: I rolled out to my …
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I wonder what it would have taken for Sonny Liston to get up and knock Mohammed Ali out.
Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Skills, Today's Post
“If I had it all to do over again…” Wouldn’t you skip everything that got you to where you are today? I’m not speaking of the exciting but difficult undertakings of being offered a good but demanding job or landing a scholarship that makes being a college student twice as hard. I’m talking about more …
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He might not know it but my cousin was my idol when I was little. He was eight years my senior and on occasion I got to ride in the car with Billy. Sometimes I got to go to the gym with Billy and shoot on the side courts while my cousin and his buddies …
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I don’t know why I was thinking about this on the Saturday before Easter but if it’s on the brain it’s sometimes worth saying. Dangerous rule of thumb. But it’s a 6ixth Man Lesson. I had a few minutes before going to a music rehearsal for a band I’m in and I was thinking about …
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Talking openly about Jesus Christ puts me in either the crazy camp or the Christian camp. Am I the only one? It’s gotten so complicated to actually be CHRISTIAN because of connotations, mythical expectations, spiritual caste systems and the like. I have an MA in Theology which means nothing to non-Christians and perhaps too much …
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The rich and the poor have this in common…they both prefer rich over poor. One of my former students is a USC Trojan now and she was on Facebook earlier today when she accidentally started a chat conversation with me. I quickly released her of any obligation to talk to me. I know how awkward …
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