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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Jul 16, 2023

“Do you know who won?”

I had already seen the alert cross my phone. I knew Rory McIlroy won the Scottish Open. My husband had not so he happily spent...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Jul 09, 2023

I had a chance to visit family over the weekend including my sports-loving niece and nephew. Both play sports and watch sports, but for very different...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Jul 02, 2023

Yes, I really did include competitive eating in this week’s list of sports conversation starters. It’s part of Fourth of July activities and tradition...

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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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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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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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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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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Apr 30, 2023

For all the game film, combine stats and draft profiles, nothing gives you a sense for a player like a conversation. 

I spent the weekend covering th...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Apr 23, 2023

There’s more than one way to participate in a conversation. Being an active listener is just as important as anything else in an interaction. It’s als...

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