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COMPETITIVE EDGE STARTS EARLY

Working on your competitive edge isn’t always pretty. At some point you plateau, and it’s usually earlier than you thought you’d top-out. That’s when when this advice shows up: “If you’re not cheating you’re not trying.” It starts making sense after a string of failures?

UNDERSTANDING SPORTS FOR THE NON-SPORTY

For starters, understanding sports, if you don’t already, and you’re past fifty years old, where have you been? But it does happen. One sign is when you hear, “Why aren’t there more touchdowns in baseball?” Or, “Do you shoot a field goal, or kick a field goal?” “Yes,” is the right answer, but first:

GOLD WATCH OR GOLD MEDAL

This gold watch was once the most desired piece of jewelry on any wrist. If you didn’t wear a Seiko watch, who were you? This one came from San Antonio, Texas after the owner whipped the strongest man he’d ever met in arm wrestling. After that it was a gold medal.

SOCIAL COMPETITION: WHERE’S THE SCOREBOARD?

Social competition follows a different set of rules than sports. Sports take preparation and executing a plan. Then there’s the scoreboard. It explains the difference between winners and losers with few questions.

SPORTS LITERACY FOR BOOMERS: KNOW WHEN ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

Sports literacy runs through all sports, not just your favorite team, or my favorite team, though that would make things so much easier. It’s more than the Yankees, the Cowboys, or the Celtics; more than the Mariners, Seahawks, and your Portland Trail Blazers. On Friday nights it’s more than the high school football playoffs, more […]

COMPETITION QUESTIONS FOR THE NON-COMPETITIVE

Competition questions start before you realize there’s even a competition happening. One of my favorites: “Do you even lift, bro?” It’s usually asked by a mid-forties man in a workout costume. It’s completed by an undershirt that looks like something out of a lady’s drawer. When it’s a question asked by a guy with greased […]

YOUTH SPORTS, THE KEY TO GOOD BEHAVIOR

Youth sports are one of the best teachers this side of the classroom and real teachers. Better than books, videos, and lectures, youth sports does one thing best of all: learning accountability. Unfortunately, not all agree on the benefits of youth sports. For example:

STAYING HEALTHY IN A TIME OF SICKNESS? RIDE HARD

Staying healthy online is a mixed bag of clickbait advice. See an interesting headline, click it, and suddenly a slideshow turns up and down the hole we go. An hour later, or ten minutes that feels like an hour, you learn how to max out biceps, widen your chest, build crusher thighs, all while keeping […]

PERFORMANCE PRESSURE SELF INFLICTED

PEP TALK? MY BEST MEMORY BEFORE A BIG WRESTLING MATCH

COMPETITIVE EDGE STARTS EARLY

UNDERSTANDING SPORTS FOR THE NON-SPORTY

GOLD WATCH OR GOLD MEDAL

SPORTS LITERACY FOR BOOMERS: KNOW WHEN ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

COMPETITION QUESTIONS FOR THE NON-COMPETITIVE

YOUTH SPORTS, THE KEY TO GOOD BEHAVIOR

STAYING HEALTHY IN A TIME OF SICKNESS? RIDE HARD

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