Tag: sports
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ESPN’s The Last Dance – A Few Thoughts
I was born in 1977, so I got to experience the Bulls’ championships while in high school and college, which was pretty cool. I loved the NBA during those years. I remember staying up late on school nights every season during the playoffs to take it all in. When The Last Dance debuted on ESPN,…
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Why We Won: My Short Story Of the Week
I wore an inappropriate shade of pink, especially for the starting quarterback of a state championship game. Looking back, I guess it was a minor miracle that, at seventeen, I managed the laundry at all. Truth be told, I really didn’t care that night about my pink pants, and neither did anyone else on the…
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I Once Made An Amazing Basketball Play … That My Coach Hated
Though I now love basketball as an adult, I wasn’t into it at all as a child. In fact, I didn’t really start playing basketball until I entered seventh grade. I’m guessing a four inch growth spurt (also, my last growth spurt) prompted this interest in the sport. I liked it a lot, more than…
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The Worst Football Hit I Ever Experienced
If you had the pleasure of playing football with me, you know I wasn’t the top talent to ever go through Beardstown High School. In fact, it seemed as though I got progressively worse as my experience grew. I’m joking. … Mostly. I loved running the football. Loved it. Defense, though? I didn’t care for…
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Dan Le Batard, Alexa, and Me
Alexa and the Amazon Echo always kind of freaked me out. Amazon is pretty direct in admitting that the Echo is always listening for “Alexa,” its activation phrase. And then, about a year ago, stories started circulating that people could hear a faint laughter emitting from it. This unsettled me to the point that it…
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Best NFL Day Of the Year
If you love NFL football, it doesn’t get any better than today. In fact, I think today will probably be better than Super Bowl Sunday. If you don’t follow the NFL, a rare thing happened–the actual four best teams are left playing for their conference championships. The winners of these two games will then go…
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Grin and Bear It
I had zero expectations for the Chicago Bears before the season started. We have Green Bay and Minnesota in our division, after all, and those two teams are pretty good. Then, right before the season started, we picked up Khalil Mack. I honestly didn’t know who he was before we got him, but it sounded…
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