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About the Author: Bryan Davies is a writer and conflict resolution expert based in Whitby, Ontario. His company, ZASwonderwords, reflects his experience as a lawyer and veteran basketball coach, and provides a comprehensive range of multi-media consulting services centered upon effective communication.
Bryan's personal portfolio includes hundreds of articles concerning sport and business. Bryan recently served as a principal author for the publication, The World of Sport Science (Thomson Gale, 2006), and serves as a regular contributing advisor to Lerner & Lerner, Academic Editing and Publishing, and LernerMedia.
Competitive pressures begin in the off season. The determined and committed athlete will devote themselves to build, improve and prepare both body and mind for the next challenge. Old injuries are overcome and past disappointments are pushed away. Age, our consummate enemy, is kept at bay another year. All off season pressures endured by an [...]
I do not often reach for my trusty Oxford English Dictionary of Etymology while taking in a golf telecast, but the CBS commentary at this year's British Open drove me to it. The announcers were making their usual fawning references to Tiger Woods, a peerless athlete, and the pressures that he faces every week in [...]
Every autumn, an announcement is published in the community newspaper and a photocopied version is pinned up on the local high school bulletin boards. "Durham Eclipse Girls Under 18 Rep basketball team tryouts, Monday, October 1 at 6 pm, other dates to be announced. Eastdale CVI Oshawa. All players welcome." This terse invitation is both [...]
Friendly discussions do exist, I suppose. Perhaps in Quaker meeting halls or at yoga classes you might find a discussion where the words are measured, polite and neat. When a conversation is truly amiable, the emotion of the moment never extends past the issue at hand to the persons who are exchanging the words. In [...]
It is written that in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. In seven stupendous days, He formed the plants, the animals, the seas, and the skies. And as proof of both His divine power and His inestimable sense of humour, God created public relations, the world's true oldest profession. Advertising and self-promotion [...]
The flags are first to the field, their acres of silk woven with every colour ever known to the world, both ancient and modern. The traditional styling of the French tricolors and the vibrancy of Ghana's Black Star generate the same anticipatory cheer when they are set against the unsullied green pitch. A small phalanx [...]
