I’ve always been a big Magic Johnson fan. The summer before he was drafted he came to Hawaii to hang out, and he played a few pickup games at the courts next to the Waikiki fire station–a court where I play now when I’m home on vacation. (I wasn’t around for any of Magic’s pickup [...]
The last two days I’ve featured one article on the business of baseball and a second on Disney’s strategy for attracting a new audience with offerings like Hannah Montana and High School Musical. In a strange bit of convergence, I took my 8 year-old HSM fan to her very first baseball game last night.
It [...]
We’re talking Final Four, baby.
My high school basketball coach went to UCLA and idolized John Wooden. We ran the UCLA press and a few other things; we were vaguely aware of Coach Wooden’s Pyramid of Success; we had Coach Wooden’s sayings drilled into us (”be quick but not in a hurry.”)