Posts Tagged ‘team’
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
You may have seen the You Tube video – shot with a cell phone – of a charter school teacher here in Houston allegedly beating up a student last month. She’s 40. The boy is 13. The video appears to show her kicking his back, slapping his face and slamming his head against the wall. [...]
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Thirty years. Can it really be that long since ‘Miracle on Ice’ when the United States Olympic hockey team – a group of amateur and college athletes – beat those big bad nasty Russians who were 27-1-1 in the previous four Olympic tournaments? Mike Eruzione. Jim Craig. Herb Brooks. Those legendary names are synonymous with [...]
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Tags: achievement, Al Michaels, all about the benjamins, canadian hockey team, college, group, Heck, Herb Brooks, hockey, Ice, Jim Craig, legendary names, Mike Eruzione, Miracle, miracle on ice, Olympic, olympic hockey, olympic hockey team, pursuit, Russia, team, Thirty, U.S., United States, USA
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
A coaching axiom in sports is to always play through the whistle. You see this all the time in football: a running back is thwarted at the line of scrimmage, yet keep his legs churning as the linemen gain traction and forward motion plunges him into the end zone. Meanwhile, frustrated defenders plead with the [...]
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
The college football season kicks off tonight, which means it’s only two days until my beloved Texas Longhorns – yes, I bleed Burnt Orange – take the field against Louisiana-Monroe. Now before you laugh at the Warhawks chances against the preseason #2 team in the nation, remember it was just two years ago they upset [...]
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009
I played youth baseball for five seasons…and our record always seemed to be 8-8. My team lost the league finals in eighth grade basketball. Through all my years of competitive sports as a kid the only trophies I ever won were in Putt-Putt tournaments, where I had an adept skill of hitting the ball exactly [...]
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010Thirty years. Can it really be that long since ‘Miracle on Ice’ when the United States Olympic hockey team – a group of amateur and college athletes – beat those big bad nasty Russians who were 27-1-1 in the previous four Olympic tournaments? Mike Eruzione. Jim Craig. Herb Brooks. Those legendary names are synonymous with [...]
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Tags: achievement, Al Michaels, all about the benjamins, canadian hockey team, college, group, Heck, Herb Brooks, hockey, Ice, Jim Craig, legendary names, Mike Eruzione, Miracle, miracle on ice, Olympic, olympic hockey, olympic hockey team, pursuit, Russia, team, Thirty, U.S., United States, USA