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It’s good to reflect while the events are fresh don’t you think? Tonight was the last league game of my first complete season as a boys basketball head coach. We lost in overtime by 6 to Ontario Christian High School. I coach Western Christian’s Fighting Lancers. The ball was in the air with roughly 10 …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Team
On February 1, 2011, I felt what all coaches have felt at one time or another, like I was getting done in by the referees. No one wants to admit feeling this way but it is what it is. And it’s noble to say, “Referees don’t lose games.” I agree with such nobility. I won’t …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Today's Post
People say that defense wins basketball games but I disagree. On the real, if you don’t score points you won’t win. In the NBA, the athletes are so athletic, so talented that you have to have a strategy for getting around guys, isolating situations that present an advantage. When the Denver Nuggets play the Lakers, …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Skills
Want to know why finding your niche is so hard? It’s because whatever it is you’re supposed to do is hidden in a stack of needles. The old simile comparison of a search for a particular item being like “looking for a needle in a haystack” gives you the advantage of distinction. Hay straw is …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, For Further Study, Today's Post
“I see you ridin’ around town with the girl I love and I’m like, ‘Forget You’…” Man I laughed when I heard this jam today. And I won’t lie, if profanity bothers you, stick to the edited version. But besides being a comical rendition in the spirit of 60s Motown, this song by Cee Lo …
Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Today's Post
If you had something important to say, something that would warn others of impending danger would you say it? What if you could be sure your audience would rebuke you? What if you could be certain that your message was true but it was literally the kind of thing that you could be sure would …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Skills, Today's Post
Some guy approached the rear of the van I was driving today on the way to my team’s game and shut the door to where my gas cap goes. I saw him in my rear view mirror. That’s never happened before. And at the same time I was having a conversation about the lack of …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Today's Post
