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It’s hard to describe the allure, if there be any, of playing a reserve role. Lamar Odom is a reserve. He is a good one too but he’s a reserve nonetheless. But he’s the guy that everyone knows could and probably should start. They say you can’t teach 6’11”. True. and I’ll do you one …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Team
About 12 noon on Friday I received a couple of calls from family. They became missed calls, one from my grandmother and one from my dad. Granddad had been admitted to the hospital the night prior with serious complications of various sorts. He’d been ill. Ironically, I had just attempted to call him the day …
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
We all do it sometimes. Kobe Bryant sprained his ankle on Saturday, March 12, 2011 against the Dallas Mavericks in a game that mattered. Lakers needed the win against a team they just happen to be chasing in the Western Conference standings. And you knew the injury was significant because Bryant left the bench and …
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Category: 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
