The Pursuit of Excellence

#1 posting 10.25.2006
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THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE
Fortune Magazine is out with their latest edition and the issue is devoted to Excellence.
They have articles on What it takes to be great. It should not surprise anyone to find out it is practice and hard work. They use sports figures liberally throughout their articles like Tiger Woods in the above article and Moneyball author Michael Lewis has an article about iconoclasts breaking the mold.
Fortune also has 12 Peak Performers tell what goes into success. Adam Vinatieri is featured in this. They also have good articles on Key Skills; Cross Training; and Five Levels of Excellence. But I couldn't find links to these articles.
If you are looking to improve and reach the top of the mountain, perhaps you should pick this magazine up. It says "The Excellence Issue" right across the top of the Fortune name.

Also USA Today is running stories on Soul of a Champion on Tuesdays. you can catch up with the series and do interactive things at soulofachampion.usatoday.com. The series is also on Versus cable. USA Today also has educational information on the series.

PRESEAON POLLS
The Mid-American Conference has their preseason polls out and Eastern Michigan is tabbed as the number one team in the west side of the conference. From the Detroit Free Press. Central Michigan is viewed for the 6th spot. From the Mt Pleasant Morning Sun.

INTERNET VIDEO
It is free and on the internet: All Horizon games will be available on the internet. Scroll down to read the info in the Green Bay Press-Gazette.

CLASSIFICATION
HI
La Pietra will stay at the DII level and not move up. This makes the ILH happy. LaPietra won the DII title last year with a senior dominated team and was supposed to move up. From the Honolulu Star Bulletin.

COACHING NEWS
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Pat Christensen will be doing double duty at West Harrison. He recently was hired to be the boys basketball head coach. He already is the girls head coach. All the ins and outs of the decision from the Missouri Valley News Times.

Next up: later this morning with Michigan HS reports