Roy: UNC Season Like Haiti Disaster
Roy Williams:
“Massage therapist told me, she said, ‘You know, coach, what happened in Haiti is a catastrophe. What you’re having is a disappointment.’ I told her that depends on what chair she was sitting in. Because it does feel like a catastrophe to me, because it is my life.”
Okay, two things. One, you’re an out of touch elitist if you start your sentence with my “massage therapist told me.” Two, if you can justify in your own mind in any way shape or form that what you are suffering in your own life is comparable to a disaster that took more than 230,000 lives, you’re an out of touch elitist. Sounds like good old boy Roy has become one of the UNC wine and cheese crowd he despises so much. And I’m starting to sound like Palin railing on elitists. Not good, but I don’t like hypocrits and Roy is the ultimate hypocrit.
Tiger’s Road
An Accenture ad featuring Tiger Woods still up in the Atlanta airport got me thinking about the hope of forgiveness. Accenture has dropped Woods after his “unacceptable” behavior became public, but this ad is still on display. The ad shows Tiger Woods lost in what I presume is the tall grass of the British Open. He looks forlorne, cold and unhappy. Above him is the following phrase: “The road to high performance isn’t always paved.” It’s a particularly effective image given Tiger’s woes but a correlation I’m sure Accenture didn’t intend to invite.
It made me wonder how many of us truely understand what it means to forgive others or to forgive ourselves. I’ve gone through my fair share of tribulations this year and found myself pretty much on the opposite end of high performance aka success. My road has been anything but paved and yet I am still on it. We will all fail at some point in our lives, though not always as spectacularly as Tiger. What is worth holding on to when it happens, and it will, is that we are always faced with a choice: stay on the road and keep fighting or fall into the ditch and lay there. We have the power, with God’s grace, to redeem ourselves. That grace is not withheld from anyone. Not Tiger, not me, not even those who fail us. We all get a second chance and we should all be grateful for the almighty love and forgiveness that awaits us should we choose to accept it. Once we know we can be forgiven, and accept God’s grace, it’s up to us to show the power of that love by living our lives in such a way as to be an example of his redeeming power. When we do that, we will truly be high performers, no matter how hard the road we travel.
Update:
Another Accenture ad found in the Atlanta Airport, this one as laughable as the last. I like the small script in the bottom: “We know what it takes to be Tiger.” I’ll bet they do.
A Little Pick Me Up
Just in case you were feeling blue about the end of the Jayhawks’ football season…
World’s Meanest Soccer Player
I know we can all get a little rough on the soccer field from time to time. I once told a girl, after a particularly harsh slide tackle (although, she may just have sucked and not known how to do a tackle. some people maintain it was clean. I digress) that if she ever touched me again I would kill her. No one prosecuted me, nor did I get a yellow card. There was also the time my entire family, minus my red headed brother, almost got in a fight with the other goalie…. Not that we’re violent people! If, however, I was to engage in any of the things this Elizabeth Lambert did during New Mexico’s game against BYU I should be banned from the sport. And no, her actions aren’t justified just because she was beating up Mormons.
Oh, You Silly Aggies.
I now know why Texas A&M got their ass kicked by K-State. European techno music to pump up before the game? Really? This isn’t an SNL skit! This is Big 12 football!! Final Score: 62-14, K-State.
Big Jay vs. Stephen Colbert
So a bit lame at first, but it picks up steam towards the end and finishes strong, just like the rest of the Jayhawks. Let’s see the Missouri Tiger take on Colbert. Rock Chalk Jayhawk, KU!
.500 At Last!
Okay, so the Royals have only played two games. But still! .500!!
Royals at .500
By the way, if anyone can identify someone other than Coco Crisp in that picture (without cheating) I’ll give you a Gold Star.
Missouri Highlight of the Century
This is the only time you’ll find a highlight from a Missouri basketball game on this blog. (I prefer the Tyus Edney highlight myself). This, however, was impressive, but not as cool as Lebron’s full court heave.
Lebron’s Sick 60 Minutes Shot
Don’t Tout Religion at the NCAAs
Strangest thing I’ve seen yet at the tournament. At the end of the Ohio State – Siena game a man was holding a sign that said John 3:16 behind the Siena bench. A security guard rushes in and yanks the sign out of the guy’s hands taking it away. While everyone on the Siena bench was praying Ohio State would miss their last shot, the guy behind the bench was having his prayer yanked out of his hands. I guess the security guard wasn’t a Saint…fan.
