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Best Individual Sports Teams to Never Win a Title
There have been many heart breaking moments that sports fans have gone through: Your team missed a last second shot; the opposing team scores a winning touchdown in the closing seconds; losing a back and forth game in a close finish; or just simply getting blown out in a winner take all game. Nothing is more heart breaking than having your hometown team put up spectacular numbers, being the odds on favorite to win a championship and…. falling short. Here we go, with the best team to not win a title during that season. Some of these are truly gut wrenching and the list is in no particular order. (*…
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6 Valuable Things Parents can Learn From Their Children
“I did my best”, “Mom/Dad why don’t you get me?”, “Well dad said I could”. If these phrases have been familiar to your ears then there must be a reason. I am all for parents who are strict within reason and raising their families with somewhat of an ‘old-school flavor’ so to speak. However there are some parents who just don’t understand what’s going on. So with that being said, here are 6 things parents should learn from their children (some of these apply especially for new parents). We make mistakes too Coming in past curfew, getting drunk at a party, getting a ticket on your car are all examples…
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Improve Your Co-Parenting Relationship with These Common Sense Tips
Several weeks ago Cortonio and I published, “Single Parents: Is it Better to Have Children outside of Marriage?” where for the first time, we collaborated giving our respective takes on the topic. There were some great comments left by several of our readers who decided to weigh in with their thoughts. One reader in particular ‘Aly’ left a comment that stuck out for me and is also the motivation behind today’s post. Here is an excerpt of what she had to say: “Instead of trying to convince people with a bunch of scary statistics that marriage is the best option for a happy, well-adjusted child, it’s time to shift the…
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Reflections on Young Black America, MLK and Miley Cyrus
Interesting week. Miley Cyrus trying out for the twerk team, football players losing their minds, and much more to cover so let’s chop it up. Riley Cooper is an idiot “‘l will fight every ni**er in here”. Yes in case you haven’t heard that’s what Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Riley Cooper said during a drunken state at a Kenny Chesney concert. Sad thing is 90% of his teammates are black, and believe it or not, some supported his apology while others didn’t. This arguably temporarily left a locked room divided. He did take a leave of absence from the team, but it goes to show you the word and racism…
