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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
“The engineers and technocrats who design and manage these installations have, to some extent, become the victims of their own success.”- James Reason 1990 HUMAN ERROR Perfection. Who achieves it? Who embodies it? Or where is it evident in our current system? More simply, what is it? A simple definition from my Oxford dictionary says
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
“If the planes weren’t flying, I’d resort to extending my thumb on the highway.”- Jon Huntsman, Sr BAREFOOT to BILLIONAIRE It was last year just about this time that I discovered the Edinboro Fighting Scots for the first time. Well, September 6th to be exact. It was late on a Friday night when I went
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
Coach “Do you like football?” Kid: No Coach “You ever played football?” Kid: No Coach: “You want to play football?” Kid: No. Coach: “Great you can be on our team.” “Little Giants” 1994 A brief peek. A 29 years young owner of a Barbershop in Australia decided that his athletic career was far from complete.
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
“If you want to kick my ass, go ahead. Just explain to me why you are doing it.” “Ah, you wouldn’t be worth it.” “We’re all worth it, man…we’re all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes.” River Phoenix to a gang of Gainesville skinheads at party in 1989 The Aer Lingus
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
“When the Scotch House closed they went round to Mulligan’s. They went into the parlour at the back and O’Halloran ordered small hot specials all round. They were all beginning to feel mellow.”- James Joyce DUBLINERS It’s game Week Zero or 1A or whatever someone wants to call it. Who cares. It’s five days before
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. But, we do know what the Greeks knew–that intelligence and skill can
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
“It’s so damn hot. Milk was a bad choice.”- Ron Burgandy You know? I’m probably considered world class in at least one thing–making the most enticing cup of coffee and forgetting it on the counter. It’s happened three times this week, and I must say, it’s not my favorite thing in the world to do.
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
“I feel like I no longer fit in with these times.”- Calvin Coolidge 1932 Utah High School Football season is beginning tonight. It feels nothing like fall and everything like a Laird Hamilton sauna, but football is back, even if it’s only back in the smallest of ways. Before football comes all the way back,
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
Skunk meat tastes ok to a starving man. It’s early. 70 degrees, calm and clear. The fuzzy snoozes at my feet after our morning stroll in the dark. Her idea not mine. Like a Swiss made watch, she’s always on time. Her time that is. Stars and planets littered the eastern sky. Venus and Jupiter
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
“The difficulties in life do not have to be unbearable. It’s how we look at them.”- French Monk Brother Lawrence (Nicholas Herman 1614-1691) It’s 96 degrees. Back from a 3 mile slog through the sandy foothills. Every step is a labor on those hills, but I don’t believe there is a better way to build