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Here’s an Idea—A Weekly Sports SparkNote
SparkNotes motto is “When your teachers and books don’t make sense, we do.” SparkNotes provides written and video summaries of To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, and every other book commonly...
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Continuous Improvement
A bullshit workplace notion. Midway into artistic or athletic activities, jobs, careers, relationships, life, we plateau. Shortly thereafter, energy ebbs, and our performance erodes. We improve for a...
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The High Cost of Win-At-All Cost
In 1972, when I was the scrawniest ten year old swimmer in the Midwest portion of the United States, I competed in a big YMCA swim meet somewhere in Ohio. According to the buzz on the deck, one guy I...
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Sports are Not a Metaphor for Life
First a note to international readers. In the U.S. the first two weeks in April is many sports-minded people’s favorite time of the year because of a confluence of great events highlighted by the...
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Sports Report with a Touch of Mad Men
• Yes, I wrongly predicted a Wisconsin victory a few weeks back. Duke is the most Republican and Conservative of the ACC schools. Which may mean the political pendulum has swung which bodes poorly for...
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We Need A Different Sports Narrative
Saturday I rode from Portland to the Pacific Ocean with a friend who is a strong cyclist. The ride was a fund raiser for the American Lung Association. There were three or four different places to...
View ArticleThursday Assorted Links
1. Toni Morrison’s global impact. “History can be manipulated, whitewashed and rewritten, but people who have lived in history all have their stories, which no single dictator or censor can rob....
View ArticleAnd In Hopelessly Underreported Sports Stories
This week’s United States women’s professional golf purse was 18.6% of the men’s.
View ArticleNew Year’s Assorted Links
1. Most memorable sports images of the decade. 2. Unconventional strategies for practicing Spanish. 3. The culture that is Sweden. Lunch lady slammed for food that is ‘too good’. 4. What will you do to...
View ArticleLess Politics, More Sports
Politics, in the (dis)United States is similar to sports in that one of two parties wins each election, but politics is significantly different from sports because the parties’ policy differences...
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