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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all this talk about and coverage devoted to Michael Jordan&#8217;s 50th Birthday today, it got me thinking. Is there a more recognizable sports figure or brand than Michael Jordan? Has any athlete in the history of sports left as large a footprint globally? Has any single figure merged pop culture and sports so seamlessly? [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobbybluford.com&#038;blog=18348904&#038;post=2249&#038;subd=bobbybluford&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Choose Happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Beyonce owned the stage—and the world for a moment—at last Sunday’s Superbowl, I got to thinking about leather, lace, awesomeness, and choices. I am light years from the fierce triple threat, but I too had a moment of Superbowl greatness. Some know the story and others (my very best!) were right there beside me [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobbybluford.com&#038;blog=18348904&#038;post=2245&#038;subd=bobbybluford&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Renaming Your Liabilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have spent the better part of three decades lamenting my &#8220;speech problem.&#8221; I placed that term in quotes because, to be honest, I&#8217;ve mostly heard people say I make this perceived problem out to be more than it is. Maybe even a lot more than it is. Is my speech perfect? Heck no. I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobbybluford.com&#038;blog=18348904&#038;post=2234&#038;subd=bobbybluford&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Until..</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was watching a clip on Youtube of the renowned motivational speaker Les Brown today. It&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of lately–watching different types of instructional videos–since I found the YouTube app on my DirecTV receiver (Menu/Extras/YouTube). In the middle of watching today, something dawned upon me. It is something I do continuously, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobbybluford.com&#038;blog=18348904&#038;post=2231&#038;subd=bobbybluford&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Belief..in Santa</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 05:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, another Christmas has come and gone. And faster than you can say &#8216;Bah, humbug!&#8217;, the presents that so beautifully adorned the base of our Christmas tree less than 24 hours ago are now opened. Like my parents did with my siblings and me, I tried to convince my children that they should keep their [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobbybluford.com&#038;blog=18348904&#038;post=2226&#038;subd=bobbybluford&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Negotiate on YOUR terms!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;RIP 30s&#8221;. In other words, &#8220;Rest in Peace, 30s!&#8221; That&#8217;s what the sign read, the one that was on my door when I strolled into the office on my birthday—oops, 40th birthday– a few weeks ago. It was a loving gesture, to be sure, mostly from a group of coworkers whom I put through a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobbybluford.com&#038;blog=18348904&#038;post=2216&#038;subd=bobbybluford&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life’s Monday Morning Game Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 05:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the Dallas Cowboys’ opener, a 24-17 win over the defending Super Bowl Champion New York Giants, I meant to go online and book my flights and hotel reservations for New Orleans, the site of this year’s Super Bowl.  But I was busy, like most Mondays, putting out fires and readying myself for the demands [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobbybluford.com&#038;blog=18348904&#038;post=2199&#038;subd=bobbybluford&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our jobs as coaches, teachers, and parents</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leave it up to the Olympics to help me get this writing thing back on track. And leave it to one of the darlings of the games- along with Gabby Douglas and the Golden Girls of Women&#8217;s Beach Volleyball, Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh—to inspire me and this post. I certainly enjoyed watching other sports [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobbybluford.com&#038;blog=18348904&#038;post=2182&#038;subd=bobbybluford&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When in Doubt, Hire Corporate “Athletes”</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 08:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My nephew and I got into a discussion a few years ago about soccer and its popularity—or lack thereof—in the United States. I was teasing him, pretending I didn&#8217;t much care for soccer. It just so happens that I played &#8220;American&#8221; football my whole life, so like him in the other direction, I was biased [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobbybluford.com&#038;blog=18348904&#038;post=2174&#038;subd=bobbybluford&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As we get older&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 21:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we get older, we lose a sense of what life is all about.  We&#8217;re born embracing all of the curiosity and fun that living brings.  But slowly over time, that innocent, untainted enthusiasm is chiseled away, often leaving no more inside of us than bitterness and skepticism. Remember when you would come home from [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobbybluford.com&#038;blog=18348904&#038;post=2147&#038;subd=bobbybluford&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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