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There’s still good NBA playoff basketball being played. I should be watching. But I don’t care – not since the Lakers were swept last week by Dallas. This was a difficult admission to realize I’m still a bit of a sore loser. But what’s comical is that the guy people love to hate, Kobe Bryant …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Skills, Today's Post
Identity is non-negotiable truth about none other than yourself. That might be why names are so important. People legally change their names from Buford to Antonio but the identity remains. When the Lakers were eliminated from the 2011 NBA Playoffs on Sunday most people maligned them because they felt the Laker identity had been breached. …
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Category: Character, Skills, Today's Post
The National Basketball Association (NBA), National Hockey League (NHL) and Major League Baseball (MLB) all use a series format during the post season. That means you get to see the same ugly dudes for at least four straight games. Tonight the Lakers face the formidable New Orleans Hornets with an invigorated Chris Paul a.k.a. CP3. …
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Category: Character, For Further Study, Skills, 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
The setting was Mimi’s Cafe on a Friday morning around 10 a.m. when I heard three people discussing politics, the housing market and the president of the United States, Barrack Obama. Their exchange took about 10-15 minutes total but I was ready to puke by minute 3. The woman who initiated their conversation mentioned the …
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Category: Skills, Today's Post
Jay-Z once said, “So you changed ya attitude before they asked what happened to you.” The longer I live the more I observe. And the more I observe young people the more I think that decisions hold crazy weight. In other words, I’m starting to grasp the gravity implicit in every one of our choices. …
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Category: Skills, Today's Post
