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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.
This story is dedicated to Al, Ron, Harry J., and all of the great coaches that I known. The Parent “The next time I recruit a team, I’ll do it in an orphanage…” Every youth basketball coach has quietly uttered those words or a similar expression, at least once in their career. Whenever basketball coaches [...]
Sunday morning in Whitby, Ontario may mean many things to my fellow suburban citizens. Frantic scrambling to get to the youth hockey arena, religious worship, or pure sloth, deserved or not, are common. When our underachieving girls' basketball team is not at some athletic outpost for a weekend tournament, my early Sunday begins with the [...]
My gold pocket watch is an anachronism. It is as cutting edge as an electronic typewriter or as snail mail. A cell phone tells better time, sleek and graceful, with gigabytes of ring tones and video. The heavy watch in its place of honour represents a time before retro with the telling of analog stories [...]
"I did this," says Memory. "I cannot have done this," says Pride remaining inexorable. Eventually, Memory yields. –Friedrich Nietzsche I have never warmed to the works of Nietzsche. I remember his name being tossed around like a poker chip at some of the university student parties I attended, long ago. The Philosophy students there could [...]
In September of 1977, I had commenced my first year studies at Scarborough College, the University of Toronto’s less fashionable eastern outpost. At 18, my self-assessment as to my talents had not yet been hammered into final form by the grim blacksmith of experience – I confidently believed that most things were not only possible, [...]
I was never a boxer. If you have no desire to get hurt or if your pain threshold is limited to the normal function of the peripheral nervous system, boxing is a poor athletic choice. My friends feign amazement when I tell them that I never boxed. They laugh as they wonder how my face, [...]
