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Lessons Learned: Sports and Life In Perspective

By Steve Auger On July - 17 - 2009
Far too many sports fans are consumed by the fortunes of the teams they live and die with. Ask any member of Red Sox Nation pre-2004, or engage in a heart-to-heart with a Cubs fan. Such focus on who won or lost the night before, who’s in a slump and who’s red hot, and how highly ranked your school’s recruiting class is causes us to lose sight of what’s truly important. Thankfully, those teachings are right there under our noses. All we have to do is look. The best part is we can learn those lessons from the most unlikely of sources. In my case, ...

Lessons Learned: Sports and Life in Perspective

By Steve Auger On July - 17 - 2009
Far too many sports fans are consumed by the fortunes of the teams they live and die with. Ask any member of Red Sox Nation pre-2004, or engage in a heart-to-heart with a Cubs fan. Such focus on who won or lost the night before, who’s in a slump and who’s red hot, and how highly ranked your school’s recruiting class is causes us to lose sight of what’s truly important. Thankfully, those teachings are right there under our noses. All we have to do is look. The best part is we can learn those lessons from the most unlikely of sources. In my case, ...

David Ortiz Reminds Us Why Sports Matter

By Steve Auger On May - 22 - 2009
There’s an Aerosmith song that begins with the lyrics, “There’s something wrong with the world today...” Never before have truer words been spoken. The United States is caught in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Millions of people are jobless. The Fed expects the unemployment rate to reach a staggering 9.6 percent. Far too many families have lost or are losing their homes. Seniors, on the verge of retirement, have seen their nest eggs vanish in the stock market. They are now left to ponder how they’ll survive the rest of their days. Sports, now more than ever, are so crucial to so ...

David Ortiz Reminds Us Why Sports Matter

By Steve Auger On May - 22 - 2009
There’s an Aerosmith song that begins with the lyrics, “There’s something wrong with the world today...” Never before have truer words been spoken. The United States is caught in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Millions of people are jobless. The Fed expects the unemployment rate to reach a staggering 9.6 percent. Far too many families have lost or are losing their homes. Seniors, on the verge of retirement, have seen their nest eggs vanish in the stock market. They are now left to ponder how they’ll survive the rest of their days. Sports, now more than ever, are so crucial to so ...
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