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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Dec 25, 2022

During this holiday season I hope there are more conversations with family and friends than colleagues this week, but regardless of who you encounter ...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Dec 18, 2022

I call them conversation starters, but sometimes you don’t feel like talking. Or maybe you can’t get word in edgewise with your family. Or maybe none ...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Dec 11, 2022

You don't have to stick to sports. You can use sports small talk as a jumping off point for other conversations.

Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll did...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Dec 04, 2022

For as much as sports brings people together, sports fans don’t always agree. There’s a lot of fun, light-hearted, healthy debates around sports that ...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Nov 27, 2022

Talking sports is my job. I love looking at the matchups, stats and storylines. I also love how often sports intersects and corresponds to business si...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Nov 20, 2022

I often mention that more than half of all Americans identify as sports fans. The World Cup helps highlight the magnitude of sports on a global scale ...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Nov 13, 2022

Travel. See the world. Use sports to connect.

Okay, I’ll admit I’m a little biased and still riding the high of being in Germany with the Seahawks. I...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Nov 06, 2022

I’ve spent a lot of time texting with family members the last couple days about the World Series and the Houston Astros. I grew up in Houston. We went...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Oct 30, 2022

No tricks only treats for sports fans Monday because it’s the second Sports Equinox of the month. That means all four major sports leagues are in acti...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Oct 23, 2022

Compared to any other time of the year this is the busiest stretch of sports, with the most variety of sports being played. That means it’s not hard t...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Oct 16, 2022

I had predetermined how the conversation was going to go, and I didn’t do a good job of listening or asking questions.

It’s happened a few times duri...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Oct 09, 2022

Drama comes in many forms and sports has just about every kind you can think of. Unpredictable finishes, unlikely outcomes, tension between teammates,...

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