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Sportsmanship Gone Awry

Friday, October 5th, 2007

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Sportsmanship in American sport stinks! The concept is a myth. An outdated term for outdated people.
Yet the governing body for collegiate athletics, the NCAA, places more and more supposed emphasis on appropriate sportsmanship than ever and human/student […]

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Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Remember as kids how we would use the chant, “Liar, liar, pants on fire”, when one of our buddies would get caught telling a big whopper? It was harmless yet still reinforced to the guilty party, “Don’t lie!” Kids did a lot more self governing back in those days.
Today I’m not so sure […]

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