Tag: Winning

What is Winning?

A conventional definition of winning is gaining, resulting in, or relating to a victory in a contest or competition. But have you ever questioned it beyond this definition? In the context of sport, what is […]

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Flopping

Last week, LeBron James earned a warning from the NBA for his acting.  While his acting was not good enough to win at the Oscars or Golden Globes, it did fool the officials on the […]

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When an Athlete Is Injured

Last time I wrote about “Ed”, a retired professional athlete who also participated in the Olympics.  Ed experienced an extremely toxic environment the last few years of his professional sports career.  During my discussion with […]

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Treat Those Two Imposters Just the Same

We have a chance here to demonstrate that while winning and losing have value, they are as Rudyard Kipling- talk about a complicated potentially toxic legacy-correctly observed, two imposters to be treated the same. Victory is a neutral, not definitively a positive concept.

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