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Arizona State University football starts PX2

by Zac on Apr 02, 2010 in Sports, TPI

Now, I’m an Arizona boy.  For people in a lot of states, you either fall into one of two camps when it comes for rooting for the “local” university’s sports teams.  Either you are a Tar Heel, or a Blue Devil.  You are a Trojan, or you are a Bruin.  Husky or Cougar.  Spartan or [...]

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James Cameron’s TED talk

by Zac on Mar 12, 2010 in Celebrity, Movies, TPI

Earlier this year, before the Academy Awards where James Cameron’s Avatar film failed to take home the Best Director or Best Film honors, the legendary director visited TED.  The purpose of his visit was to share the inspiration for his latest film and comment on the journey of his life that has seen his childhood [...]

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Nick Saban’s Leadership Award Highlights

Nick Saban’s Leadership Award Highlights

by Zac on Feb 11, 2010 in Sports, TPI

In case you missed the breakfast in Birmingham a couple of weeks ago, TPI’s own Ron Medved presented the Leadership Innovation Award to Alabama football coach Nick Saban for his team’s incredible championship season this year.  This nine minute clip below shows some of the highlights from the event. If you are a coach, athletic [...]

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Nick Saban and Alabama reach the goal

by Zac on Jan 08, 2010 in Sports, TPI

After a disappointing end to last year’s nearly perfect football campaign, the University of Alabama football team completed their perfect season last night with a win over the University of Texas in the BCS National Championship game. A lot has been said about the reasons for Alabama’s resurgence to national prominence as a football powerhouse. [...]

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Standing Spirit

Standing Spirit

by Zac on Dec 11, 2009 in TPI

In 1994, Brad Jacobsen was hanging out with some friends along the bank of a river in the Pacific Northwest.  Someone decided to break out a frisbee, and a spirited game began.  At some point, when someone threw a frisbee near to one side of him, like he did with so many other things in [...]

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Tuesday Newsday – Alabama heading to the BCS Championship

by Zac on Dec 08, 2009 in Sports, TPI, Tuesday Newsday

If you are a college football fan, you know that the Bowl game match-ups were decided this week, and that the BCS title game will feature the University of Alabama and the University of Texas.  Both teams are undefeated, and there is little debate that both teams deserve to be there.  What you may not [...]

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