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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:06:50 GMT--><rss xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Articles</title><link>http://www.gosportslife.com/learn-something-new-each-day/</link><description></description><copyright></copyright><language>en-US</language><generator>Squarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/)</generator><item><title>Barkley's legacy continues to evolve</title><category>Character</category><category>Influential People</category><category>Leadership</category><category>Basketball</category><dc:creator>Andy Kaasa</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:43:07 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.gosportslife.com/learn-something-new-each-day/2008/4/21/barkleys-legacy-continues-to-evolve.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">131647:1185014:1777721</guid><description><![CDATA[And then there is Barkley, whose career and life arc continue to evolve, just like his waistline. Barkley is becoming what Jordan could have been, perhaps should have been. He is becoming a voice and, as it turns out, the very thing Barkley resisted years ago: a role model.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.gosportslife.com/learn-something-new-each-day/rss-comments-entry-1777721.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Desire to coach still drives 81-year-old Paterno</title><category>Influential People</category><category>American Football</category><category>Coaching</category><dc:creator>Andy Kaasa</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:51:40 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.gosportslife.com/learn-something-new-each-day/2008/4/16/desire-to-coach-still-drives-81-year-old-paterno.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">131647:1185014:1766014</guid><description><![CDATA["When there isn't that sense of urgency and details, you know. How can we make So-And-So better? Do we have the right guys in the right place? … I think when that isn't a part of it, then I probably ought to get out of it. Sit around, and travel. I have no urge to do anything. Except coaching."]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.gosportslife.com/learn-something-new-each-day/rss-comments-entry-1766014.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Reid: Gundy's rant "basically ended my life"</title><category>Character</category><category>Influential People</category><category>American Football</category><category>Coaching</category><category>Adversity</category><dc:creator>Andy Kaasa</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:10:12 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.gosportslife.com/learn-something-new-each-day/2008/4/14/reid-gundys-rant-basically-ended-my-life.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">131647:1185014:1760112</guid><description><![CDATA[The lethal combination of testosterone, Red Bull and YouTube got us to this awkward place. It's a place where a coach is a cult figure for hollering: "I'm a man! I'm 40!" And it's a place where a quarterback is a vagabond -- for not hollering back. 

Seven months later, the tirade of the century still has legs, and those legs are leaning against a rusted goalpost in Houston. The quarterback's name is Bobby Reid, and if his pulse is quick and his tongue is acid, it's because he's still stewing over the 3-minute, 20-second rant that "basically ended my life."]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.gosportslife.com/learn-something-new-each-day/rss-comments-entry-1760112.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>For the Phinney Family, a Dream and a Challenge</title><category>Inspiration</category><category>Character</category><category>Hard Work</category><category>Dream</category><category>Adversity</category><category>Parkinson’s</category><dc:creator>Andy Kaasa</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:45:10 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.gosportslife.com/learn-something-new-each-day/2008/3/26/for-the-phinney-family-a-dream-and-a-challenge.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">131647:1185014:1715619</guid><description><![CDATA[Like any proud father, Davis Phinney marvels at the man his son has become. 

It is not because Taylor Phinney juggles his senior year’s studies at Boulder High School while training as an elite cyclist. Or because he speaks fluent Italian. Or that he is, according to his coach, Neal Henderson, “physiologically phenomenal,” a perfect combination of his parents.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.gosportslife.com/learn-something-new-each-day/rss-comments-entry-1715619.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Straight Ahead, One Foot in Front of the Other</title><category>Character</category><category>Hard Work</category><category>Adversity</category><dc:creator>Andy Kaasa</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:10:33 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.gosportslife.com/learn-something-new-each-day/2008/3/19/straight-ahead-one-foot-in-front-of-the-other.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">131647:1185014:1698651</guid><description><![CDATA[The track coach wears a vest of rigid plastic. Mounted at the shoulders, a great tangle of hardware rises to fix a metallic band in Saturnian suspension around her skull. Four long screws penetrate her scalp, locking her neck upright, chin parallel to the earth, sea blue eyes on some point in the middle distance.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.gosportslife.com/learn-something-new-each-day/rss-comments-entry-1698651.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>For Yanks and Hokies, a Game to Remember</title><category>Character</category><category>Baseball</category><category>Death</category><category>Charity/ Good Causes</category><dc:creator>Andy Kaasa</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:03:50 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.gosportslife.com/learn-something-new-each-day/2008/3/19/for-yanks-and-hokies-a-game-to-remember.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">131647:1185014:1698620</guid><description><![CDATA[After he left the game, Rodriguez sat on the Hokies’ bench for half an inning, signing autographs and talking baseball. He said the day was one of his proudest as a Yankee.

“Arguably, this is the most important game I’ve played in my Yankees career, because it makes you realize the important things in life and realize how fragile life can be,” Rodriguez said. “We’re all very proud to be here.”]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.gosportslife.com/learn-something-new-each-day/rss-comments-entry-1698620.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>'To An Athlete Dying Young'</title><category>American Football</category><category>Death</category><category>Adversity</category><dc:creator>Andy Kaasa</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:14:32 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.gosportslife.com/learn-something-new-each-day/2008/3/13/to-an-athlete-dying-young.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">131647:1185014:1681691</guid><description><![CDATA[On Tuesday afternoon, I witnessed a superhuman act of strength. We were gathered inside the West Angeles Cathedral on Crenshaw Boulevard, a mammoth facility with a balcony and video screens that's like a concert hall crossed with a place of the Lord. Only a few funerals each month happen here, mostly for Los Angeles celebrities and people with ties to the church. For Johnnie Cochrane's funeral two years ago, every one of the cathedral's 5,000 seats was famously filled. It's the type of place you wouldn't expect to see a 17-year-old kid lying peacefully in a coffin, not unless he was related to a singer or a politician or something. But that's who was there, and that's who we came to see.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.gosportslife.com/learn-something-new-each-day/rss-comments-entry-1681691.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Fallen firefighter Louis Mulkey's magic takes Summerville to state title</title><category>Inspiration</category><category>Influential People</category><category>Death</category><category>Basketball</category><dc:creator>Andy Kaasa</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:19:25 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.gosportslife.com/learn-something-new-each-day/2008/3/3/fallen-firefighter-louis-mulkeys-magic-takes-summerville-to.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">131647:1185014:1632737</guid><description><![CDATA[If you read the story about Louis Mulkey and the Summerville High boys basketball team playing for the South Carolina state championship, you are not going to believe this. 



Mulkey, you'll remember, was a fireman there in Charleston, and when he wasn't putting his life on the line, he coached football and basketball. The kids loved him, but when he died, they found a hole in their lives. Mulkey had always been there when things were down and when things seemed hopeless. Just a week ago, with the team's season on the ropes, the crowd at the semifinal game began chanting the coach's name: Lou-is Mul-key!]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.gosportslife.com/learn-something-new-each-day/rss-comments-entry-1632737.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Storybook season found spark in firefighter's lost life</title><category>Inspiration</category><category>Influential People</category><category>Death</category><category>Basketball</category><dc:creator>Andy Kaasa</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:17:40 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.gosportslife.com/learn-something-new-each-day/2008/3/3/storybook-season-found-spark-in-firefighters-lost-life.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">131647:1185014:1632734</guid><description><![CDATA[Last weekend in Charleston, S.C., a bus carried the Summerville High basketball team to the state 4A semifinals. It also carried the memory of a man you've never heard of, a man who meant everything to the boys on that bus. His name was Louis Mulkey, and he was an assistant coach in football and basketball and, everyone says, life.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.gosportslife.com/learn-something-new-each-day/rss-comments-entry-1632734.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>From Russia With Verve: It’s Ovechkin</title><category>Influential People</category><category>Hockey</category><dc:creator>Andy Kaasa</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:19:30 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.gosportslife.com/learn-something-new-each-day/2008/2/14/from-russia-with-verve-its-ovechkin.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">131647:1185014:1575695</guid><description><![CDATA[When Bruce Boudreau first met his players as the Washington Capitals’ coach, he had no idea what to expect. His career, spent largely bouncing around minor leagues, had not taken him in front of the kind of players now judging his every move.

So Boudreau was amazed when one of the first players to shake his hand in the locker room that November day was Alex Ovechkin, the team’s outlandishly talented 22-year-old left wing.

“He walked up to me and said, ‘What do we do, Coach?’ ” Boudreau said. “That’s the way he is. He follows every direction. He does things superstars just don’t do.”]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.gosportslife.com/learn-something-new-each-day/rss-comments-entry-1575695.xml</wfw:commentRss></item></channel></rss>