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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
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
Carmelo Anthony is the buzz, likely for the rest of this week after his request to be moved from the Denver Nuggets to the New York Knicks was granted on Tuesday, February 22, 2011. He was involved in a 13 player trade between three teams. STOP RIGHT THERE! I thought a trade was when I …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Team, Today's Post
Blake Griffin jumps over a car while the Crenshaw Elite mass choir sings R. Kelly’s I Believe I Can Fly. Javelle McGee literally dunked two balls into two baskets nearly simultaneously. Kobe made sure he locked up Most Valuable Player honors for the fourth and record time, by dropping nearly 40 points. Los Angeles did …
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Category: Character, Today's Post
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
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
