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ACCEPTING FAILURE? LESSONS FROM LeBRON

November 6, 2024 by

If you’re good at accepting failure, it means one thing: You tried, given it your best, and it wasn’t enough. You’ve done it, I’ve done it. If you haven’t done it, it’s coming. Accept failure to get better, and who doesn’t want to get better?

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SPORTS FAN HISTORY: SING IT OUT

January 17, 2024 by

Sports fan used to be a grubby, sweaty, man who enjoyed watching other men do what they couldn’t do. His observations made him an expert to those who didn’t know sports, and an annoyance to those who did. Those were the good old days when men dressed in suits and ties, wore a hat, and […]

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SPORTS FAN REVIEW: IN THE BEGINNING

December 1, 2023 by

Sports fan knows one thing: Rivalry. Without rivalry, sporting events resemble theater without the curtains. With rivalry we feel something deeper, way deeper, way down there. If you come from a certain time and place the only rivals that mattered were the Marshfield High School Pirates. But, everyone grows up. Right?

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EMOTIONAL SCOREBOARD, TALLY OF ANSWERS TO BIG QUESTIONS

February 15, 2021 by

Emotional Scoreboard doesn’t explain who wins, who loses, or the odd tie. It says more about effort, determination, and sportsmanship. As Robert DeNiro explained so eloquently in The Deer Hunter, “This is this. Not this, this.” Emotional scoreboard defines the argument of who won what without any details of what the winner won. (51-49, right […]

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