Rethink the conversation on the car ride home

March 11, 2013

I love when people send me things because they know I will be thankful and, more than likely, understand where the message is coming from.I received such a note the other day and decided to share it because it was too good not to have others, hopefully, be moved by the message.Through a local parent, I received something from from Glen Schneiders, who is the lead pastor at Crossroads Christian Church in Lexington, Ky.Heading: A Monday Morning Service to the Business Community.The title: Nightmare Sports ParentsIt read:Two longtime coaches, Bruce E. Brown and Rob Miller, are devoted to ...

This 80 percent is not a good number

March 14, 2013

"Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers."And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption."Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:"And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." - Ephesians 4:29-32Evidence.Emotion.Morality.While emotion and morality dominated the discussion of the alleged rape of a ...

Please act on playoff system

March 15, 2013

The basketball playoffs in West Virginia need a makeover.Again.The most recent makeover was to try and get the eight best teams in the state to Charleston. Well, that's not happening and it's time to set things up so the top eight teams have the best chance of getting there.The system currently in place is better than the old system.Under the old system, if the two best teams in the state were across the street from one another, then one wouldn't make it to Charleston because it would have been knocked off by its neighbor in sectional play.Now, once a team makes the sectional final, it ...

What now?

March 18, 2013

"But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness." - 2 Timothy 2:16"Many of the things we learned during this trial that our children were saying and doing were profane, were ugly," Judge Thomas Lipps said Sunday.As the outsiders leave town, we are here to live in our community, to pick up the pieces of what has transpired during the past six months.So, where do we go from here?One, we pray.We pray that our teenagers understand how to be upstanding members of the community.We pray that our adults fully teach our teenagers the difference between right and ...

The highs, lows through the NCAA tournament

March 25, 2013

The high, so far, in a landslide, is Florida Gulf Coast University. The NCAA infant has knocked off Georgetown and my hometown San Diego State Aztecs to become the first No. 15 seed to reach the Sweet 16. Here is to that run continuing. FGCU?is Phi Slamma Jamma 30 years later. The young men are college’s version of Lob City. Instead of CP3, Blake and Jordan it is a bunch of kids no one has heard of until they gave Georgetown the heave Ho-ya. Five No. 13 seeds and two No. 14 seeds have reached the Sweet 16. The first, Cleveland State, did so in 1986 as a No. 14 and the latest, ...

Injury and what it means

April 1, 2013

"Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble." - Matthew 6:34If you haven't seen the video, please don't.It's worse than the Lawrence Taylor tackle on Joe Theismann in 1985 on Monday Night Football.But, in one instance, one step, one second, one play, one jump and one landing, Kevin Ware's life changed.The Louisville guard went to challenge a three-point shot by Duke's Tyler Thornton during the first half of Sunday's Elite Eight game. His right leg landed awkwardly in front of the Cardinals' bench.This was ...