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I didn’t realize it at the time but when I had the chance to play half court basketball last week with Laker legend and former NBA Head Coach Byron Scott, I was being mentored. Somewhere someone is reading this and laughing because they’re assuming he can still go and took me to school, so-to-speak. To …
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Category: Character, Skills, Today's Post
The Hurt Locker is a good film and it has nothing to do with bandwagon appeal. I’m a war movie glutton because if I had college to do over again, I’d probably go military academy instead. Platoon was probably the first war movie I remember and it inspired me to write two letters directly to …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Team, Today's Post
I had innumerable encounters with the cut list. The cut list comes in various forms and appears on locker room windows and doors when you’re in high school. Sometimes the cut list isn’t posted anywhere because it’s just understood like when and if you weren’t picked at recess/lunch to be on a team. The cut …
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Category: Character, Today's Post
If you were 34 years old and in need of work where would you look? If you’re Marion Jones, the former world-class sprinter stripped of her gold medals for her role in a doping scandal, the answer is,
Category: Character, Skills, Today's Post
I wanna play everyday with the urgency the Lakers feel tonight? (If that makes any sense…) The Lakers happen to be on a 3-game losing streak. Tonight they host Toronto in hopes of stopping the bleeding. There’s a logic concerning urgency, however, which says that it is accompanied by crisis. And invariably, crisis is
Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Today's Post
When you go 0-3 on a road trip as the NBA’s reigning champion, it never suffices. Injuries, fatigue nor the fact that every team hits you in the mouth every night fail to qualify as acceptable excuses. The Lakers lost three games between last Thursday and today (Sunday Afternoon). But in spite of all the …
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Category: Character, Today's Post
It’s indescribably hard to act like you’ve been there before when you haven’t. Last night I watched my Alma Mater, Chapman University’s Men’s basketball team win a playoff game for the first time as a Division III school. In Fact, they’ve struggled for years to make the playoffs because they are an Independent, non-conference institution. …
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Category: Character, Play, Team, Today's Post
