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How to make the Olympics better
 Posted 2/24/2010 6:12:00 AM
Okay - we are a week and a half in to the 2010 Olympics.
You good?
Having fun?
Care about this, little less about that?
I'm here for you. Because I feel both your pleasure AND your pain.
Three somewhat legal disclaimers before I begin to at least start on some solid ground :
1. Please take a few minutes to read Part 1 of this two-parter if you have 5 minutes. Sprinkled
with history, facts, opinions AND video. And it's free. Good place to start to see where I stand.
http://www.790thezone.com/blogs/chrisdimino/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10094765
2. Rooting for the Red, White and Blue has never, nor will it ever, get old. Through the good and the bad, (politically, economically, socially and spiritually), the reprieve FROM or the heightening OF our nations awareness of any and all of those things has at times been best represented every 4 years by athletes and their games....
How did this happen?
Posted 2/15/2010 11:43:00 PM
It doesn't seem that long ago that the Olympics mattered. I mean really MATTERED.
God, Mother and Country mattered.
"GOD, MOTHER and COUNTRY". Three most powerful words you can string together. I know. "I LOVE YOU". Whatever!
Let's be honest. You know and I know enough people who toss those words around like pennies. Easy and cheap. Probably like a lot of the women who you've figured would be impressed by dropping them 3 minutes after you know them. The verbal equivalent of Premature Ejaculation. Not good for anyone. Embarrassing actually.
Let's not forget the other side of that coin. People who couldn't spit out those words if you put a 1,000 bucks on a table in front of them. A block of sorts.
Not their fault actually. Tough to feel what is tough to understand.
But God, Mother and Country is EASILY understood by all. Whatever your God. Whomever ...
A Football Confessional...
Posted 2/8/2010 4:29:00 PM
Some people are suffering from a hangover this morning. Not me. Physically I feel fine.
Morally....? Spiritually....? I'm hurting as much as anyone who overindulged on Super Bowl Sunday.
Your head hurts. My conscious hurts.
I feel like I need to go to confession. That's what my people do. It's been awhile, but I think I remember "how". So if you don't mind, I would like to take a minute to cleanse myself of not one but two (that I know of) sins of the heart.
"Neither shall you desire your neighbor's house, or field, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor".
Deuteronomy 5:6?5:21
There it is. In black and white. And I'm guilty as charged. Not of all of it. That would be strange. Just the last part. Well maybe the house part too, but that's for another day. Squeaking ...
10 Things by Chris Dimino
Posted 1/31/2010 8:27:00 PM
Hank Stram was paid $750 CASH (his demand) to be the first person miked up in a Super Bowl game....He also, according to Steve Sabol of NFL FILMS, wore a "girdle" under his suit....and a bad toupee on his head (didn't need Sabol for that one).
I have a real healthy distaste for the Boston Celtics....they ain't so tough BTW.
The Braves will have one of the least expensive clean-up hitters in baseball....
I wish that was a good thing....it's not.
John Mellencamp's JACKIE BROWN is the greatest "simple" song you'll ever hear.
I like Roger Federer and how he goes about his business....He might be as good an example of appreciating greatness while its happening as we have
seen....and I think he's actually underappreciated in the now....so is Kobe Bryant....sure we "talk" about, argue about, guys like them and others....
but we seem reluctant to just ...
Chris Dimino on Chan Gailey
Posted 1/21/2010 9:20:00 AM
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