Life Lessons Through Sports Lesson 7-8
91st Edition Lesson 7 – Expect more than they can accomplish then love them when they fall short One year I was coaching a U9 team, made up primarily of a few neighborhood kids. In no way were we an all-star
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Life Lessons Through Sports Lessons 4-6
90th Edition Lesson 4 – Act like you’ve been there before Nick made the winning shot and his dad raced on the court and picked him up. I felt that was totally inappropriate. Why? In most athletic competitions, at all levels, when a
Life Lessons Through Sports
89th Edition There are multiple life lessons that can be learned through a properly focused athletic program. Here are a few real-life experiences. Lesson 1 – Relish Unfairness… Minutes before the start of the basketball game a mom approached me. I
Number Six: Integrate sports into the overall education experience
88th Edition The sixth in in my six-part series – “Six things we can do to make America better.” Focus on character development and maximize participation Note: This final recommendation in this six-part series is very long. This week’s edition will include an overview
Number Five: Teach in-depth, the invaluable lessons from WWII in grades 9 – 12
87th Edition The fifth in in my six-part series – “Six things we can do to make America better.” No other event in the last one hundred years was as important Without question, World War II was the defining event in history
Number Four: Mandatory political service, if selected by a nonpartisan committee and then elected
86th Edition The fourth in in my six-part series – “Six things we can do to make America better.” Here is a blog I wrote in April 2023 proposing this idea… Mandatory political service for our best of the best. Is this
Number Three: Required military service between age 18 – 25
85th Edition The third in my six-part series – “Six things we can do to make America better.” Preserving freedom will always require self-sacrifice. Every able-bodied citizen should be required to serve in a branch of the military sometime between the age
Number Two: Importance of TIES
84th Edition The second in in my six-part series – “Six things we can do to make America better.” There is a connectedness across humanity that is undeniable even when we refuse to acknowledge that it exists. This connection exists between
Six things we can do to make America better
83rd Edition Over the next six weeks I am going to share my thoughts on “six things we can do to make America better.” Please send me your thoughts, ideas, and criticisms. We are all on this journey together. Number One: Reconnect
Encouragement all over the place
82nd Edition For the people in small towns and isolated hamlets in western North Carolina, Hurricane Helene will go down in history as the thousand-year storm. Several villages were completely swept away by flood waters, and it may be years before