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The first time I heard the name Rubin Carter was in 1999 when the movie The Hurricane, starring Denzel Washington, was released. I was riveted learning the story of a falsely imprisoned #1 boxing contender who had arrested the interest and compassion of a young boy being educated in Toronto, Canada. Movies never do real …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Skills, Team
When the basketball season ended this year, I experienced legitimate grief. I am currently a high school boys basketball coach who used to be a girls high school basketball coach. I coach in the summers doing camps. I coach privately. Coaching has become more being than doing. But this year I lost my entire team …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Team, Today's Post
When my wife asked the seven year-old girl in her intervention class today who killed her aunt, the girl responded, “The Niggers.” My wife asked her twice to be sure she had heard her correctly. The little girl’s aunt had been the victim of a drive-by shooting in Pomona days ago and apparently had been …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Today's Post
The upper echelon of teams in the NBA are now poised to make that final push toward the playoffs to assert themselves or at least take their best stab at contention for the championship. There’s somewhere around 23 games remaining for the Los Angeles Lakers and amid criticisms that they’re aging as fast as Bemjamin …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Skills, Team, Today's Post
Carmelo Anthony is the buzz, likely for the rest of this week after his request to be moved from the Denver Nuggets to the New York Knicks was granted on Tuesday, February 22, 2011. He was involved in a 13 player trade between three teams. STOP RIGHT THERE! I thought a trade was when I …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Team, Today's Post
When the buzzer sounded last night ending the basketball season for the Western Christian Fighting Lancers varsity basketball team, I started mulling over the losses. We played the Mustangs of John Muir High School from Pasadena. It was the second round and we were coming off a first round victory against Kern Valley. We scouted …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character
Pictured to the left is a statue with a placard above that reads: “The inquiry, knowledge and belief of truth is the sovereign good of human nature.” My wife showed it to me after she noticed it on that TV show “Who Do You Think You Are” where famous people research their ancestry. Tim McGraw …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character
