Tag: sports
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Life lessons from baseball
Today is the opening day for the 2023 Major League Baseball season. Between opening day and the end of the season in early November, more than 2,430 games will be played. Baseball’s regular season is the longest in American professional sports, nearly doubling the 82 games NBA and NHL seasons. I think about the baseball…
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March Madness: one champion, but many winners
It’s the start of one of the most beloved traditions in the American sports calendar: March Madness. We’re a little bit past the midpoint of the first day. There have already been some upsets. Many people already probably have a team (or two) who they thought would go deep into the tournament already headed home.…
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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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D.C. area school won’t play road games at Karen Pence’s Christian schools because students feel “unsafe”
It became a story last week that Karen Pence, the wife of vice president Mike Pence is teaching art classes at a private school in Virginia that holds to Biblical values and expects students and staff to abide by a code of conduct which comports with Biblical teachings. This has drawn criticism because Immanuel Christian…
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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…
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