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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Jun 25, 2023

In baseball hitters (and managers) talk about the importance of not giving away at bats. In other words, they don’t want to give in to a pitcher. They...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Jun 18, 2023

Every week for the last 15 years I've posted a list of what I thought were Sports Conversation Starters...but I might have gotten it wrong. It might b...

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Dealing with Unfair Outcomes (in sports and business) Jun 18, 2023

Sports is entertainment. I get that. I'm a sports broadcaster and a fan. I see the fun side of sports every day, but I also see all the different ways...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Jun 11, 2023

I forgot how awesome it is to be a fan.

That might sound weird, but cheering is not only discouraged it’s not allowed where I sit or stand for games....

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Getting Better at Giving Feedback Jun 11, 2023

You mean well. It's said with the best intent. Which is why it feels like you’ve been blindsided when it backfires.

Giving false praise leads to con...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Jun 04, 2023

I initially deleted the Google alert and then sorted through the trash bin to recover a short writeup of the Mariners win against the NY Yankees Wedne...

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A Win is a Win Jun 02, 2023

You know what a sports fan, athlete or coach will never say?  "That was a bad win."   

Never. You will never ever hear them say that. Why? Because a ...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek May 28, 2023

Have you ever found yourself trapped in a conversation you didn’t care about? Me too!

Just last week I was part of a conversation that didn’t intere...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek May 21, 2023

This weekly list of sports conversation starters isn’t just to spark sports small talk, it’s to provide a springboard to talk about whatever you’d lik...

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Did You Get My Email? Tips for getting the response you need May 16, 2023

437. Wait. Make that 439. That’s the number of emails in my inbox. Four of those are unread. Most of them need to be deleted. As much as I would love ...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek May 14, 2023

It’s really hard to concentrate when the sun is out in Seattle.

I know it’s a sentiment shared by most of us here after extended stretches of clouds ...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek May 07, 2023

Anything can happen on live TV. Usually it doesn’t. Things go (relatively) smoothly most of the time. When it doesn’t I think back to how my mentor vi...

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