Category Archives: Today’s Post
HOME AND AWAY
When the basketball season ended this year, I experienced legitimate grief. I am currently a high school boys basketball coach who used to be a girls high school basketball coach. I coach in the summers doing camps. I coach privately. … Continue reading
PLAYING HURT
We all do it sometimes. Kobe Bryant sprained his ankle on Saturday, March 12, 2011 against the Dallas Mavericks in a game that mattered. Lakers needed the win against a team they just happen to be chasing in the Western … Continue reading
STAPLES CENTER SOUTH
That’s what they call Phillips Arena apparently, home of the Atlanta Hawks. The Lakers moved to 8-0 on the road tonight with the gold clad fan club raising an absolute raucous in a building two time zones away from Downtown … Continue reading
SORT IT OUT
Jay-Z once said, “So you changed ya attitude before they asked what happened to you.” The longer I live the more I observe. And the more I observe young people the more I think that decisions hold crazy weight. In … Continue reading
WILL YOU BE BETTER?
When my wife asked the seven year-old girl in her intervention class today who killed her aunt, the girl responded, “The Niggers.” My wife asked her twice to be sure she had heard her correctly. The little girl’s aunt had … Continue reading
THE NBA’S SECOND SEASON
The upper echelon of teams in the NBA are now poised to make that final push toward the playoffs to assert themselves or at least take their best stab at contention for the championship. There’s somewhere around 23 games remaining … Continue reading
I’ll TRADE YA
Carmelo Anthony is the buzz, likely for the rest of this week after his request to be moved from the Denver Nuggets to the New York Knicks was granted on Tuesday, February 22, 2011. He was involved in a 13 … Continue reading
ALL-STAR DRAW VS. CROWD THINNING APPEAL
Blake Griffin jumps over a car while the Crenshaw Elite mass choir sings R. Kelly’s I Believe I Can Fly. Javelle McGee literally dunked two balls into two baskets nearly simultaneously. Kobe made sure he locked up Most Valuable Player … Continue reading
TRUTH HURTS. WHAT’S WORSE?
On February 1, 2011, I felt what all coaches have felt at one time or another, like I was getting done in by the referees. No one wants to admit feeling this way but it is what it is. And … Continue reading
NEEDLESTACK
Want to know why finding your niche is so hard? It’s because whatever it is you’re supposed to do is hidden in a stack of needles. The old simile comparison of a search for a particular item being like “looking … Continue reading
