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Lessons from Larry Legend

Lessons from Larry Legend

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I was reading an article the other day on the Sports Illustrated web site about Larry Bird. The article was an excerpt from “When March went Mad: The Game that Transformed Basketball,” a book about the 1979 NCAA basketball championship between Bird’s Indiana State team and the Michigan State team lead by Earvin “Magic” Johnson. The article focuses on Bird and how he came to play basketball for Indiana State. He had originally signed and attended Indiana University, but went…

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Make a decision and stick with it

Make a decision and stick with it

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Last year, I got to coach my daughter’s recreation league basketball team. I was really looking forward to it. I knew since I hadn’t coached that age level before that my team probably wouldn’t be as talented as many of the other teams, but I thought we’d be competitive. I was wrong. We lost every game. There were only two games that we had any chance of winning. Most games we got our doors blown off. By the end of…

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