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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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Resiliency and showing up May 06, 2023

I don't know about you but when I think of resiliency or being resilient there's always a positive outcome in the end. As in, you stuck with it, even ...

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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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Conversations about Culture, Teamwork and Team Outlook Apr 26, 2023

How confident are you that your favorite NFL team will make the right hiring choice during the NFL Draft? 

There are a lot of opinions online when it...

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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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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Apr 16, 2023

You already know I think of sports conversations as a way to connect. I also think of them as a way to practice skills I know I need in other areas of...

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Coasting or finishing? Apr 15, 2023

Golf is not a sport I watch with a lot of intensity, but I'll often watch the end of a tournament and the fanfare of the final few holes. Which got me...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Apr 09, 2023

After 20 minutes of responding to fans on Twitter I gave up. There was no point. I’m not a huge fan of engaging in “conversations” on Twitter to begin...

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