Sports

Great Cub Illustration Today

July 20, 2010

Another masterful illustration from cubby-blue.com that captures what so many of us Cub Fans are feeling these days:

A Team’s Last Line of Defense Pt 2

July 13, 2010

Now that I’ve laid out the metaphor and context of “A Team’s Last Line of Defense” in Part One, I want to point out that in a team setting there are always (or usually) one or two people that are the “goalkeepers” – they see when the values and vision are being compromised and they [...]

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A Team’s Last Line of Defense Pt 1

July 12, 2010

If you think about your current team – whether it’s a formal and ongoing team or whether it’s more informal and temporary, then sooner or later you’ll have to face the reality of things slipping through the cracks and balls getting dropped. A lot of times this is okay and par for the course. Stuff [...]

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In the meantime

June 29, 2010

As you can tell I’ve been posting a lot of “fuzzy” stuff of late. I have had a lot on my mind and not a lot of those things lend themselves to blogging right now. I’ve also been caught up the baby frenzy in my family right now at the same time as I [...]

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Why I’m Not Into the World Cup

June 19, 2010

I stumbled upon the U.S. vs. Slovenia World Cup game yesterday and decided to watch for a few minutes. They were trailing 2-1 when I started watching and the whole time watching confirmed why this sport is not one that I can follow or can really get behind. Here are my reasons. That Humming Sound….What [...]

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Ron-Ron Self Leading

June 18, 2010

I’ve had a couple speaking things the last few days and I’m on full-time parent duty for a time while my wife is gone working for a few days so any reflective blog posts are going to have to wait. But I’m celebrating the Lakers’ Championship today. I am including the link to one of [...]

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You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet…

June 14, 2010

…that’s the tag line for the new L.A. Clippers ad campaign.Truer words have never been spoken.I wonder if this is some kind of reverse psychology they’re using on fans. I wrote a post on another Clippers ad campaign a couple years ago here and all those same thoughts came back to my mind when I [...]

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Awesome!

June 9, 2010

Congrats to the Chicago Blackhawks!I’ll confess I’m somewhat of a bandwagon hockey fan. I pulled a little bit for the Ducks a couple years back when they won, because hey, I live in Orange County. But one of the first sports t-shirts I ever got was a Chicago Blackhawks shirt. My uncle gave it to [...]

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Reflections on John Wooden

June 5, 2010

With the passing of Coach John Wooden last night I thought I would re-post some reflections on what made John Wooden as great and effective as he was in his craft. All of the love and respect pouring out on the internet for him is a sign that he left a great legacy as a [...]

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