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Pushing Back Against Football, For Our Boys and Men: The First Annual CTE...
(HOUSTON, January 30, 2017) We gathered on Sunday night in a hotel room at the St. Regents Hotel in Houston. The families of men and boys who had played football, got CTE, and lost their lives. Chronic...
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Your First Love: Discovering Balance
Embed from Getty Images — Super Bowl 52 was perhaps the all-time greatest Super Bowl. Congratulations to the World Champion Philadelphia Eagles. And I’m a Tom Brady fan. 40-year-old Quarterback Tom...
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Play the Greater Than Game. Not the Perfection Game.
— I watched the 2018 World Figure Skating Championships. In competition, each participant starts off with the predefined perfect score. As they perform judges deduct points for each infraction or...
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6 Things You Can’t Win (and How to Win Them)
Not everything is a contest, but you can always be a winner. Here’s how. —– We live in a very competitive world, perhaps even more so here in the United States where we’ve managed to turn weight...
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Football is My Guilty Pleasure
As a man who prides himself on eschewing violent, hyper-masculine pastimes, I still find it very difficult to give up watching professional football, especially once the playoffs begin. I promise...
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Create Art in Others
— “What are you willing to do and what are you willing to give up to be the best that you can be?” – Tom Brady 41-year-old All-Pro Quarterback Tom Brady lead his New England Patriots down the field in...
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Six(ish) Thoughts on the Super Bowl
— 1. I never really watch the Super Bowl. For the last two years, my daughter has had a lot to do with that: bedtimes, bottles, and poopy diapers — you get the picture. But even before Emersyn Lynn...
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Art in Mastery: Execution and Gratitude
“Good players can overcome bad coaching.” – Bill Belichick “I didn’t do anything. You did it.” – Sensei Dan Mizukami The New England Patriots beat the Los Angeles Rams in Atlanta to win their sixth...
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Not So Super Bowl
Seems recently there was a football game of some importance. I wish they would do a better job of promoting these things. Pregame; Forever No, not really. For the last two weeks, all I have heard about...
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Just Like Me
I was fifteen and had just started an internship at PM Magazine, Providence’s evening half-hour local interest show. I’d been watching PM Magazine with my family since its inception a few years earlier...
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Life in the Art of Losing
— “Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win. But never to accept the way to lose. To accept defeat, to learn the way to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes, you must free...
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Fun with Super Bowl LIV Prop Bets!
It is expected that over 25 million Americans will bet almost $7 billion on the Super Bowl this weekend. A fair portion of those bets will be on completely silly wagers. That’s right, we’re talking...
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Embracing the Over the Top Super Bowl Hype: More Cowbell!
What the Super Bowl really needs is more parades, more food, more prime time coverage, and some iconic animated TV specials — If we are ever going to truly perfect our Super Bowl excess, its time for...
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I’m Not Sure But I Think the Super Bowl may be Subliminally Telling Me to Buy...
Michael Kasdan and friends are talking Super Bowl commercials. Because on Super Bowl Sunday the recipe is beer, trucks, and a flavorful dash of football. — So do you watch the Super Bowl for the game,...
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Sports and Hobbies–Are They Entertainment or Distraction?
When my wife Angie and I first met in 1999, I was a passionate Baltimore Ravens football fan. Soon after our first date, I bought us season tickets, and we went to every home game over the next few...
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The Heart of Sports: Super Bowl Win For Pups
“The Heart of Sports” is a weekly column that curates the stories, pictures and moments that provide a window into the beating heart of sports: The moments in and around the game that are bigger than...
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The NFL Stands for Never Fear Lying
The NFL season used to start in August with the preseason and then end in January but that’s not so much the case anymore. It’s always football season now. Once the Super Bowl is over it’s just the...
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Life Is a Playground: Reflections on Rob ‘Gronk’ Gronkowski Coming Out of...
After his 20 years with the New England Patriots, the GOAT (Greatest of All-Time) Tom Brady, is now the quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He joined Coach Bruce Aryans and star wide receivers...
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Jimmy on Ice and Max the Magnificent
I sent this message to my team on my birthday, somewhat jokingly, but completely whole-heartedly. Any person that’s spent more than 10 minutes around me the past half year knows about my sheer...
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Next Generation Speedster
No matter how long you’ve know somebody or how close you may believe yourselves to be, there are always some things about each other that you may not realize. Beliefs, idiosyncrasies, fears. Any...
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