Category: Sports
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What baseball can teach us about life
The second half of the 2019 baseball season starts today. Between now and late September, the regular season will feature over 1,000 games. One ting I love about baseball is that no matter how good or bad today’s game went, tomorrow is a new day. In baseball, you can get absolutely trounced one day. Pitching…
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Worst to winners: St. Louis Blues win Stanley Cup
It’s a better story than the Mighty Ducks. The St. Louis Blues won their first Stanley Cup in franchise history Wednesday night. The story of how they got there is an inspiring one. January 2 was an off day for the St. Louis Blues. It was also a significant day because it was on that…
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Our sense of justice and the outrage over the botched Saints call
An egregious no-call in the Saints-Rams, NFC Championship game yesterday. Missed calls happen. But I don’t know if I can think of ever seeing a more consequential no-call that had a bigger impact on a game than the missed pass interference with 1:46 left to go in the game.
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Purdue super fan Tyler Trent passes away
We don’t control the cards we’re dealt. All we can do is play what we have. Tyler Trent passed away on Tuesday. The Purdue student had battled a rare form of bone cancer. He had become a sensation in college football and Big Ten circles as being someone the Purdue football team rallied around this…
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What great coaches can teach us about life
Relentless effort (not talent or intelligence) is the key to achieving great things in your life. Struggle is part of the process. It is hard and often painful. But it’s also necessary, because it’s in the struggle that great things are achieved. -Urban Meyer, in Above the Line Tonight, one of the greatest college football coaches…
Josh Benner 