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The Relentless School Nurse: It Comes Down to This! Safety is a Basic Human Right…

Relentless School Nurse

I had a conversation with my husband, Ed, that I had not had before, the one where I admitted I was fearful of being shot at school. I have thought about it, those deep, dark thoughts that pass through my mind almost every single day, but I had not shared it out loud. Common ground is what I am searching for in this work.

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Gene Woodling: A Stellar Career Playing For the Greats

The Sporting

If you misbehaved in school, you had to beg your teacher and principal not to tell your parents. After 20 years in the major leagues I was put in my high school Hall of Fame – for swimming. After 20 years in the major leagues I was put in my high school Hall of Fame – for swimming. That lasted for about a week.

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Karl Malone: The Mailman always delivers

The Sporting

Karl spent his childhood farming, chopping wood, hunting, and fishing. RPG for the Bulldogs, and led the school, under Head Coach Andy Russo, to its first NCAA tournament, losing in the Sweet 16. Malone was selected 13th overall by the Utah Jazz, and it did not take long for the rest of the league to know what position Malone played.

Sports 101
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Why Your Montessori School Needs Organized Sports

Montessori Physical Education

Fresh off of presenting at the 2023 AIMS conference, I had great conversations with colleagues that got me thinking about a future presentation topic. A little bit of history about sports and my school: no afterschool sports teams existed when I started teaching at Rogers Park Montessori School sixteen years ago.

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Richie Ashburn: Could This Hall of Fame Singles-Hitter Make The Team Today?

The Sporting

It was all farming and ranching around there. Then they went into the farm machinery business when tractors replaced horses. In high school I ran sprints but we had no track coach. I’m not even sure I was out of high school, which was also illegal. He led in hits three times, walks four times and triples twice.

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Interviewing Mickey Owen: Undeserving GOAT of the 1941 World Series

The Sporting

I made money with a paper route and as a professional marbles shark, won all the other kids’ marbles and lunch money until the mothers came to school to complain and they stopped me. One was 5-foot-8 and weighed about 245 pounds. I hit about.310 Getting Traded to the Brooklyn Dodgers I had never lived up to what they expected.

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Football Manager : More than a Game

The Sporting

Football Manager - Stories from 3 people whose lives were changed by the game Sometimes it’s right to use a cliché. Football Manager really is more than a game. The ambition, the hope, the pure passion that FM provokes in players is unmatched by any other career-mode football game. There’s nothing quite like it. It is football admin, essentially.