A good story of generosity.
Good job Mr. Abess
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
In case you didn't know...
In reference to my last post...
For not "playing" in a single NBA game this year for the Knicks:
Marbury makes 4 times more money in a DAY then I make in a YEAR.
For not "playing" in a single NBA game this year for the Knicks:
Marbury makes 4 times more money in a DAY then I make in a YEAR.
Now THIS is pathetic...
The New York Knicks are quickly becoming my favorite NBA team. I've long had love for the SA Spurs. The Trailblazers moved up my charts about 2 years ago and are right there now.
It goes something like this.
1 - Spurs
2a - Knicks
2b - Blazers
The Knicks did themselves VERY well yesterday by cutting Stephon Marbury.
If you think, "oh, poor Stephon, he got cut"...Going to be hard for him to find a job in this economy...
Make sure you read Darren Rovell's piece I've linked...
It goes something like this.
1 - Spurs
2a - Knicks
2b - Blazers
The Knicks did themselves VERY well yesterday by cutting Stephon Marbury.
If you think, "oh, poor Stephon, he got cut"...Going to be hard for him to find a job in this economy...
Make sure you read Darren Rovell's piece I've linked...
Friday, February 20, 2009
Graduate
One of the greatest highlights of my life so far was my graduation from KSU. Many of you know that feeling that I'm talking about. The great sense of relief, accomplishment and optimism that goes along with graduation.
This story proves, you're never too old to graduate!
Good for him!
This story proves, you're never too old to graduate!
Good for him!
Some dreams never die
This is why I think basketball is the greatest sport in the world. You can play it by yourself, you can play it recreational or competitive and you can play it at almost any age.
Just like this guy...
JUCO at its best
Just like this guy...
JUCO at its best
3 wishes
This is a kid wise beyond his years. From a fourt grade writing assignment to a super sub at Clemson, Tanner has come a long way. Although, some things never change...
Terrific story, and reason to root for Clemson.
Tanner's Toys
Terrific story, and reason to root for Clemson.
Tanner's Toys
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Alex Rodriguez
The more I was thinking about Alex Rodriguez I began to wonder something...
With everything going on, how is it going to be possible for this guy to perform at his "normal" level on the field?
Taking a look at the #'s...
Since Rodriguez has played in an "everyday" role, 14 seasons...
he has hit no less then, .285.
he has averaged, 39.5 homeruns
he has averaged 115 RBI's.
With everything that is going on in this life, here is the question I pose going into the 2009 season.
Out of the 3 Stats...how many will A-Rod eclipse? Will he hit higher than .285? Power out 40 homers? Drive in 115 runs?
The thing I'll keep my eye on closely is his BA. He'll have the ability to drive in runs with the lineup surrounding him. I say he has a career low in BA this year...
If A-Rod does 2 of the 3, I will be absolutely amazed...
[Royals pitchers and catchers report tomorrow! 2/13!]
With everything going on, how is it going to be possible for this guy to perform at his "normal" level on the field?
Taking a look at the #'s...
Since Rodriguez has played in an "everyday" role, 14 seasons...
he has hit no less then, .285.
he has averaged, 39.5 homeruns
he has averaged 115 RBI's.
With everything that is going on in this life, here is the question I pose going into the 2009 season.
Out of the 3 Stats...how many will A-Rod eclipse? Will he hit higher than .285? Power out 40 homers? Drive in 115 runs?
The thing I'll keep my eye on closely is his BA. He'll have the ability to drive in runs with the lineup surrounding him. I say he has a career low in BA this year...
If A-Rod does 2 of the 3, I will be absolutely amazed...
[Royals pitchers and catchers report tomorrow! 2/13!]
How many...
How many times can you genuinely say, "Thank you" with a smile during the day?
You'd be surprised at people's reaction.
You'd be surprised at people's reaction.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
The Four Agreements
There is a book that I was refered to back in 2004, titled "The Four Agreements". Recently, Tom Brady mentioned how he read the book and got a great deal out of it.
Eric Musselman outlined the 4 major agreements on his blog and I am posting them here.
I challenge you to take a hard look and evaluate where you fit into these "agreements"...
1. Be Impeccable with Your Word: "The word is a force; it is the power you have to express and communicate, to think, and thereby create the events in your life. When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions, but you do not judge or blame yourself. Being impeccable with your word is the correct use of your energy.But making this agreement is difficult because we have learned to do precisely the opposite. We have learned to lie as a habit of our communication with others and more importantly ourselves. We use the word to curse, to blame, to find guilt, to destroy. Of course, we also use it in the right way, but not too often. Mostly we use the word to spread our personal poison -- to express anger, jealousy, envy, and hate.We must begin to understand what the word is and what the word does."
2. Don't Take Anything Personally: "Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about "me." We think we are responsible for everything. Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.When you take things personally, then you feel offended [when someone insults you], and your reaction is to defend your beliefs. You have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong.Others are going to have their own opinion according to their belief system, so nothing they think about me is really about me, but it is about them. Don't take anything personally because by taking things personally you set yourself up to suffer for nothing.When you make it a strong habit not to take anything personally, you avoid many upsets in your life. Your anger, jealousy, and envy will disappear. Write this agreement on paper, and put it on your refrigerator to remind you all the time: Don't take anything personally."
3. Don't Make Assumptions: "We have a tendency to make assumptions about everything. The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. We make assumptions about what others are doing or thinking -- we take it personally -- then we blame them. We also make assumptions about ourselves, and this creates a lot of inner conflict.Even if we hear something and we don't understand, we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. When we believe something, we assume we are right about it to the point that we will destroy relationships in order to defend our position.The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions. Make sure the communication is clear. If you don't understand, ask. Have the courage to ask questions until you are clear as you can be, and even then do not assume you know all there is to know about a given situation. Without making assumptions your word becomes impeccable.Don't make assumptions. Just saying this sounds easy, but I understand it is difficult to do because we so often do exactly the opposite."
4. Always Do Your Best: "The fourth agreement is about the action of the first three. Under any circumstance, always do your best, no more and no less. But keep in mind that your best is never going to be the same from one moment to the next. Everything is alive and changing all the time, so your best will sometimes be high quality, and other times it will not be as good.Doing your best, you are going to live your life intensely. You are going to be productive, you are going to be good to yourself, because you will be giving yourself to your family, to your community, to everything. It is the action that is going to make you feel intensely happy.When you always do your best, you take action. Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward. Most people do exactly the opposite: They only take action when they expect a reward, and they don't enjoy the action. And that's the reason they won't do their best.When you do your best, you learn to accept yourself. But you have to be aware and learn from your mistakes. Learning from your mistakes means you practice, look honestly at the results, and keep practicing. This increases your awareness.By doing your best, the habits of misusing your word, taking things personally, and making assumptions will become weaker and less frequent with time."
Eric Musselman outlined the 4 major agreements on his blog and I am posting them here.
I challenge you to take a hard look and evaluate where you fit into these "agreements"...
1. Be Impeccable with Your Word: "The word is a force; it is the power you have to express and communicate, to think, and thereby create the events in your life. When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions, but you do not judge or blame yourself. Being impeccable with your word is the correct use of your energy.But making this agreement is difficult because we have learned to do precisely the opposite. We have learned to lie as a habit of our communication with others and more importantly ourselves. We use the word to curse, to blame, to find guilt, to destroy. Of course, we also use it in the right way, but not too often. Mostly we use the word to spread our personal poison -- to express anger, jealousy, envy, and hate.We must begin to understand what the word is and what the word does."
2. Don't Take Anything Personally: "Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about "me." We think we are responsible for everything. Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.When you take things personally, then you feel offended [when someone insults you], and your reaction is to defend your beliefs. You have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong.Others are going to have their own opinion according to their belief system, so nothing they think about me is really about me, but it is about them. Don't take anything personally because by taking things personally you set yourself up to suffer for nothing.When you make it a strong habit not to take anything personally, you avoid many upsets in your life. Your anger, jealousy, and envy will disappear. Write this agreement on paper, and put it on your refrigerator to remind you all the time: Don't take anything personally."
3. Don't Make Assumptions: "We have a tendency to make assumptions about everything. The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. We make assumptions about what others are doing or thinking -- we take it personally -- then we blame them. We also make assumptions about ourselves, and this creates a lot of inner conflict.Even if we hear something and we don't understand, we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. When we believe something, we assume we are right about it to the point that we will destroy relationships in order to defend our position.The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions. Make sure the communication is clear. If you don't understand, ask. Have the courage to ask questions until you are clear as you can be, and even then do not assume you know all there is to know about a given situation. Without making assumptions your word becomes impeccable.Don't make assumptions. Just saying this sounds easy, but I understand it is difficult to do because we so often do exactly the opposite."
4. Always Do Your Best: "The fourth agreement is about the action of the first three. Under any circumstance, always do your best, no more and no less. But keep in mind that your best is never going to be the same from one moment to the next. Everything is alive and changing all the time, so your best will sometimes be high quality, and other times it will not be as good.Doing your best, you are going to live your life intensely. You are going to be productive, you are going to be good to yourself, because you will be giving yourself to your family, to your community, to everything. It is the action that is going to make you feel intensely happy.When you always do your best, you take action. Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward. Most people do exactly the opposite: They only take action when they expect a reward, and they don't enjoy the action. And that's the reason they won't do their best.When you do your best, you learn to accept yourself. But you have to be aware and learn from your mistakes. Learning from your mistakes means you practice, look honestly at the results, and keep practicing. This increases your awareness.By doing your best, the habits of misusing your word, taking things personally, and making assumptions will become weaker and less frequent with time."
Monday, February 09, 2009
A-Rod
Obviously, everyone has their own thoughts on A-Rod, and I am planning on posting mine in the next couple of days.
He has since, admitted taking steroids. So here is my question to you..."What else is there to talk about?"
He has admitted to making a horrible mistake, he has come clean and acknowledged what he did was wrong and is hopeful to move on.
I hope that we don't ridicule A-Rod like we did/do Bonds because of the fundamental difference between how they handled the entire thing. Think about how much pride A-Rod must have lost when that report surfaced.
Think Roger Clemens would be thought of in a different light?
In America, isn't the truth supposed to carry some weight?
He has since, admitted taking steroids. So here is my question to you..."What else is there to talk about?"
He has admitted to making a horrible mistake, he has come clean and acknowledged what he did was wrong and is hopeful to move on.
I hope that we don't ridicule A-Rod like we did/do Bonds because of the fundamental difference between how they handled the entire thing. Think about how much pride A-Rod must have lost when that report surfaced.
Think Roger Clemens would be thought of in a different light?
In America, isn't the truth supposed to carry some weight?
Thursday, February 05, 2009
US Air
Make sure to go to CNN.com, or MSBC.com and check out the audio recording from the flight that ended up in the Hudson.
It's worth listening to a couple of times...amazing poise.
Also, here is the transcript...
It's worth listening to a couple of times...amazing poise.
Also, here is the transcript...
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Monday, February 02, 2009
Disclosure
I just saw Sportscenter and Tim Hassleback just brought up this same point.
Obviously I'm not the only one that saw it, but I didn't steal it from someone else.
Obviously I'm not the only one that saw it, but I didn't steal it from someone else.
Super Bowl
We have all seen the replays of James Harrison's INT return for Touchdown.
I've seen it so much that I started watching different things on the return.
With NBC's camera in the end zone that Harrison returns the INT, watch Larry Fitzgerald. Try to "spotlight" #11 for the Cards and see if you can follow him the entire way.
Towards the end of the INT return, Fitzgerald seems about to catch him, when he is blocked. Thing of it is, he is blocked by #21 for the Cardinals, Rolle. 21 plays defense and was not on the field.
So...here you go...
Harrison was returning the INT and Fitzgerald was about to get him, when he bumped into one of his own teammates on the sideline who wasn't even in the game!!!!
Think if he doesn't bump into him how different the game is!
I've seen it so much that I started watching different things on the return.
With NBC's camera in the end zone that Harrison returns the INT, watch Larry Fitzgerald. Try to "spotlight" #11 for the Cards and see if you can follow him the entire way.
Towards the end of the INT return, Fitzgerald seems about to catch him, when he is blocked. Thing of it is, he is blocked by #21 for the Cardinals, Rolle. 21 plays defense and was not on the field.
So...here you go...
Harrison was returning the INT and Fitzgerald was about to get him, when he bumped into one of his own teammates on the sideline who wasn't even in the game!!!!
Think if he doesn't bump into him how different the game is!
Like Father, like Son...
Make sure to check out the video of Pat Knight from Texas Tech.
By the way, there was no doubt in my mind that Rick Randall would be one of the officials in the box score. Rick is one of the worst officials in the Big XII.
When we were @ Texas in 2004, Jeremiah Massey got elbowed by Brad Buckman of Texas. Randall called the foul on Massey and Coach Wooldridge went crazy. One of Coach's lines, "So Rick, you mean to tell me that my guy JUMPED into his elbow huh?"
By the way, Coach Knight looks like he's in great shape!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78r7lp3pEuE
By the way, there was no doubt in my mind that Rick Randall would be one of the officials in the box score. Rick is one of the worst officials in the Big XII.
When we were @ Texas in 2004, Jeremiah Massey got elbowed by Brad Buckman of Texas. Randall called the foul on Massey and Coach Wooldridge went crazy. One of Coach's lines, "So Rick, you mean to tell me that my guy JUMPED into his elbow huh?"
By the way, Coach Knight looks like he's in great shape!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78r7lp3pEuE
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