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Yesterday

After playing golf for a couple of days it’s hard for me not to have it on the brain.  I mean even more than I usually do.  Which is a lot.  However, I recognize that many of you find golf a mysterious, boring waste of 4 hours so I try to find takeaways from the game that are applicable to non-golf situations as well. Today, I want to talk about one of the most important things one learns on the course – how to forget. Continue reading

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‘Roids

Barry Bonds @ Coors Field, 4/22/06

There has always been a sub-culture of cheating in sports. In NASCAR,it’s almost a religion, the Patriots took it to a new level in football with their taping of signals, and hockey there is actually a piece of goal tending equipment called a cheater bar – it’s sewn onto a goalies glove. I guess this is all in the spirit of if you don’t get caught it’s not cheating but what’s been going on in baseball for decades is different. Continue reading

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Did You Say Over?

Animal House

I can hear many of you answering that classic question from Animal House. “Nothing is over until we decide it is!” and despite the subsequent attribution of the Pearl Harbor attack, it’s damn good advice. In fact, we’ve had two incidents this week in the world of sports that bear it out.

There is , of course, a business lesson in there too. Continue reading

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