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In the 33 years since I stopped waking up before dawn to catch a city bus to a school bus which then drove me 34 miles to the promised land, I have only recently processed the significance of the 900 days I spent hunting down equity.
Category: Character, For Further Study, Submission to Truth, Today's Post
Aren’t Tiger Woods, Michael Vick, Joe Paterno, and Kobe Bryant unforgiveable? These are the men of scorn in athletics with the recent addendum of Penn State University’s beloved Joe Pa. And what makes a pariah? Well, here’s what happens: people who think they’re better than the heinous, notorious all-stars find rest in positions of judgement. …
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Category: Character, Today's Post
I’ve had a problem with my MacBook’s email client for at least two months but did nothing about it. All I needed to do was march my lazy self to the “Genius Bar” at my neighborhood Mac Store and wait a few minutes for help that likely would take a nano-percentage of my life. But …
Category: Skills, Today's Post
It’s possible to think, feel and live outside of an NBA Lockout that on the surface appears to limit what a player can do to prepare for the upcoming season. Darren Collison is a prime example. It’s like he’s the NBA version of the NFL’s Larry Fitzgerald who trains vigorously as if all is right …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Skills, Team, Today's Post
So much planning is done without counsel and so much planning isn’t done at all. You are now tuned in to two lockouts, one in the NFL and the other in the NBA. Summer time and the living is easy for pro basketball gods because, from what I’m told, they get paid biweekly during the …
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Category: Character, Skills, Today's Post
I’m sitting in Chipotle (Fresh Mexican Restaurant) talking to a young guy about his stay in the United States. He’s from somewhere else. He’d rather be home in the somewhere else. But he’s here because people in the somewhere else think it beneficial that he stay here just now. He’s unhappy. I saw a movie …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Today's Post
When the mighty Heat fell to Dallas in six games, the pundits lay in wait to seize upon the controversial Lebron “King” James. People love a tragedy and particularly the demise of someone touted as indisputable. So it was the perfect fodder mixture for a tantalizing afterglow of this year’s NBA Finals because “HaterAde” is …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Today's Post
