Tip of the Week

There are numerous forest fires in North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee burning and will continue to burn for the foreseeable future because of the severe drought.  Yesterday, we went over to volunteer at a fire department (not to fight fires but to support those who are).  While unloading supplies with a fireman from…

We all want what we want, but only a dictator gets to do everything he or she wants.  Unfortunately (or fortunately), democracy is more like a team sport, with different individuals with different agendas learning how to play together in order to succeed!  This is a good example of how sports are a great laboratory…

Politics is all about different people wanting different things.  This happens all the time on our teams: a person wants to play one position, but the coach wants him or her to play a different position; one person wants one kind of offense, another wants something different; one person wants the practice to focus on…

On Sunday night the kickers for both the Arizona Cardinals and the Seattle Seahawks missed “easy” field goals which would have given their teams victory – and so the game ended in a tie.  We have all missed “easy” opportunities in whatever sport we play.  The greatest players in the world all “fail” at one…

On her television show Ellen DeGeneres recently surprised one of her audience members, Amber Thomas, a student at Boston University.  Ellen called her down because she knew that Amber was working 70 hours a week to support herself as a student.  After giving her a few small gifts, Ellen presented her with a check for…

What does the expression “locker room talk” mean to you?  We think it refers to words and conversations that one would say in private, but would never want to be repeated in public.  It is as if the locker room were some sort of “off limits” place where the normal rules of behavior would not…

Two wonderful men died Sunday: one young, one old.  Rory McIlroy probably said it best when he said of Arnold Palmer: “No one has ever done more for any sport than Arnold did for golf.”  We tried to think of what others have meant to their sports, Babe Ruth, for example, but had to agree…

There have been a number of injuries recently in our national headlines.  Nothing can be more devastating to a team than an injury to a key player.  How each person responds to the loss of an important teammate is critical.  The Code says, “I will be a positive influence on the relationships on the team.” …

Wednesday (today) is Roberto Clemente Day in Major League baseball.  Clemente was by far one of the greatest and most exciting players of his generation.  Statistics do not tell the story of this great person, loved by all, and admired by all.  That love and admiration was because of who he was as a person…

The big discussion this week has been about Colin Kaepernick, who refused to stand for the National Anthem because of his belief that our country has not being doing enough about the issue of race.  No one disputes that racism exists, and no one disputes Kaepernick’s right to express himself – it’s one of the…