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Pete Carroll and Lou Tice

By on September 26, 2011 in Psychology, Sports, Television, TPI

A local Seattle news station did a nice video piece on the relationship between the Seattle Seahawks coach and the founder/chairman of The Pacific Institute.

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Arizona State University football starts PX2

By on April 2, 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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Nick Saban’s Leadership Award Highlights

Nick Saban’s Leadership Award Highlights

By on February 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 on January 8, 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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Tuesday Newsday – Alabama heading to the BCS Championship

By on December 8, 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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Pat Tillman Remembered

By on December 6, 2009 in Personal, Sports

Last month, ESPN produced a nice 8-minute piece on Marie Tillman, the widow of Pat Tillman. While speaking to a group of high school students last month after the Ft. Hood shooting, our discussion touched on the volunteer nature of American armed forces.  When someone mentioned how much soldiers have to sacrifice in order to [...]

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