Category: sports
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What makes a “team” a “team?”
… Meanwhile back at the ranch …SO I wrote 1600 words or so in a rambling post that started out with the intent of answering the “what make a team” question. THAT post desperately needs an edit, and maybe I’ll post it later this week … Shorter version“Team” is another of those “interesting” words. Merriam-Webster…
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Measuring “greatness”
Just what do you mean “great?”Random thought time: What makes something/someone “great”? Merriam-Webster offers us definitions for “great” as adjective, verb, and noun. The earliest form of the English word (as an adjective) boil down to “large” – so a “great person” in the 12th century would have just been “exceptionally large.” Of course saying…