Archive for February, 2009
Applauding Sportsmanship
There are still stories in sports that inspire, that rise above who wins or loses, that move your soul because the right thing was done.
Yes, these types of stories are rare and only sprout to the surface of headline news only so often.
But when they do arise, I want to promote those stories. [...]
When You Are in Love
I am currently reading through a book by Francis Chan, Crazy Love, and it is beating me up right now (challenging my soul). While this is not a book review, I wanted to share a few brief notes from the beginning of a chapter entitled: When you’re in love.
The opening paragraph is a quoted [...]
Downloadable Graffiti Wallpaper Designs
I was checking out the creative web designs over at Nike Basketball and came across a link entitled: “The Drive Inside.” There is a contest that consists of finding the words that inspire LeBron James’ game on a graffiti designed wall, but also a section to write and design your own wallpaper.
Above is a [...]
Cultivating Sports Culture // Social Change and Life Development
If you are just tuning in, I began a series of posts with an Introduction to Cultivating Sports Culture, and then followed up with Defining Reality.
Another element that is relevant in cultivating sports culture is in generating social change.
By social change, I am referring to, tackling the needs of education, leadership, poverty, health [...]
Cultivating Sports Culture // Defining Reality
Continuing on from the Introduction to Cultivating Sports Culture, let’s take a moment to define reality.
During the 2008 Final Four, the N.B.A. and N.C.A.A announced that they would be joining forces in an effort to reform pre-collegiate, youth basketball systems. Both groups are in the process of creating a unified organization that [...]
Cultivating Sports Culture // Intro
Cultivating Sports Culture is the vision for a Sports Organization / Non-profit that I’m establishing, a foundation that was inspired from reading the book Total Truth, and was the title of an essay I wrote for the “Make History Now” contest.
But first let me take you back to the start.
As [...]
Favorite Super Bowl Commercial 2009
Revisited the Super Bowl commercials over at Hulu.com and then voted for my favorite. However, they didn’t have all of the commercials like they say they do.
Out of the commercials they had listed, Career Builder.com Tips won my vote.
But I had to do a quick search for my favorite commercial this [...]
John Wooden
Peter R. Casey
Ron Harvey
Stuart Weir
Tony Dungy
