Management vs. Leadership
Do managers motivate and leaders inspire? Is management learned and leadership innate? Do managers posess authority while leaders influece people? What is the difference and where does the line get blurred?
Leadership: Michael Jordan Quote
I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot... and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why... I succeed.
You Can Look It Up
On June 9, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) added a new group of words to the roughly 600,000 and counting entries. With the help of Jesse Scheidlower at the OED, here are the ones with sports meanings:

Abdominizer: "a piece of exercise apparatus on which the user lies supine and rocks backwards and forwards, flexing the abdominal muscles." The first use of the word was in the Washington Post in 1989.


Carbo-loading: "the consumption of a carbohydrate-rich diet, especially by participants in endurance sports a few days before an event." The first use of the word was in 1980 by the New York Times.


Foul line: was first used referring to baseball in 1870 by the New York Herald. Foul line, in a general sense, as in bowling or shot put, was first used in 1879 by the New York Times. The word was used in the basketball sense in 1896 by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.


Free Throw: "A chance or attempt to score a point, hit a target, etc., without obstruction by opponents or defenders, typically granted as a penalty for a foul committed by an opposing team." The first mention of free throw came in article in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1896.


Home Run: "A single hit enabling the batter to make a complete circuit of the bases to score a run, especially one which goes out of the playing area but into fair territory." The word was first used in a publication called Spirit of Times in 1856.