I AM THANKFUL.....AGAIN

I am thankful for my health. The groin pulls and calf strains may occur more frequently nowand the grooves around my eyes are deeper, but I'm thankful that I'm still upright and strongenough to run marathons, swim across lakes, and complete an Ironman.I am thankful that I have a job that I love and work with people who share the same passion, commitment and interests that I do. Love what you do, do what you love, and not have to worry...

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TOP 1O TURKEYS OF 2014

1O.  JOSH SHAW  Give the USC defensive back some serious credit for having a fertile        imagination. He sprained both ankles and told his coaches that he suffered them while        jumping off a second-floor balcony to get to a pool where his nephew was drowning.        What a hero! What a story! What a lie! When pressured to...

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BRIAN ZECHELLO: PUTTING THE STYLE IN NESN

Brian Zechello is to sports television what Mark Zuckerberg is to social media: pure genius.He is to producing what Antonio Cromartie is to pro-creation: potent.His creative genius has taken NESN's production of  Boston Bruins games to an entirelydifferent level, making them the envy of every network that broadcasts NHL contests.But for all his television talent, Z, as he's known world-wide, has a unique fashionsense and style that separates...

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WHAT DO WE MAKE OF BILL COSBY?

Bill Cosby never had a chance.In this knee-jerk, rush-to-judgment-world we live in, the reputation of the televisionlegend is forever stained. Innocent or guilty, it doesn't  matter at this point, not in acourt of public opinion that equates an accusation with an arrest, an arrest to aconviction, and a conviction to being bunk mates with Charles Manson in prison.Nope, in our society, it's guilty until proven innocent and after the procession...

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DON LEMON TURNS SOUR AND STUPID

Maybe Don Lemon just wanted to be "trending" in this social media and self-importantworld we live in. Perhaps, all the attention he received for 'coming out' as a CNN newsanchor faded away all too quickly. There's a chance Lemon just wanted to make hisemployer, who is coming off record low-ratings significant again even just forthe 24-hours that big stories receive before getting rinsed out of the news and Twittercycle.Maybe. Perhaps. Who the heck...

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LIFE IMITATES A 'SEINFELD' EPISODE

Life is not a bowl of cherries and can often feel like a "Seinfeld" episode. The show about nothing had a way of making the innocuous, irrelevant, and insignificant things weexperience so very funny. We often watched "Seinfeld" and said, "OMG, that happened to me. That could've been a day in my life."My life became an episode of "Seinfeld" several years ago when I was working for a largeand powerful media company. My...

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THE INSANITY OF GIANCARLO STANTON'S $325 MILLION CONTRACT

A 13-year, $325 million contract. No matter how you slice it, break down the numbers,or try to justify it, the deal the Miami Marlins gave Giancarlo Stanton is insane.Oh, it'll probably get the Marlins a lot of headlines, some national media interest, andthe franchise splashed across the Twitter-sphere, but they'll be rinsed out of the world'sfast and furious news cycle by tomorrow and  go back to being an irrelevantprofessional team even in...

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