HeyJaredCoaches' Book Club
Sports are more than just games. Competition is a classroom for the human experience. While scoreboards declare winners and losers, the real value of athletics is the lessons that transcend any field of play. Lessons like perseverance, leadership, and resilience.
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Episode 21 - Nothing but curveballs (opens the original)
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Former basketball coach and long-time broadcast analyst Joe Cravens returns to discuss his book choice - The Last Innocents by Michael Leahy. We each share some of our favorite moments and stories from the book that explores how the 1960s Dodgers navigated tumultuous changes in the world - and the sport of baseball. From scenes where pitcher Sandy Koufax and infielder Maury Wills read each other’s hate mail to a conversation between pitcher James “Mudcat” Grant and then-presidential candidate Jo
Episode 20: Chari Hawkins and The Happiness Advantage (opens the original)
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Olympic and Utah State track athlete Chari Hawkins joins us to talk about how reading The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor changed her life. The Idaho native talks about growing up an athlete who based her value on performance and appearance. She overcame an eating disorder and tragic loss to transform her athletic career in college, but when she failed to make the Olympic team on the timeline she expected, she found herself questioning everything, including whether she wanted to continue livi
Episode 19: Joe Cravens on sports and politics (opens the original)
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Join us for a wide-ranging, entertaining conversation with a man who has done it all - retired coach and current broadcaster, Joe Cravens. Recently inducted into the Utah Sports Hall of Fame, Cravens was a successful division one men’s basketball coach at Weber State University and after he’d retired from coaching, answered a plea to help St. Joseph Catholic High School with their girls basketball program. He talks about the difference between teaching the game to teenage girls and college men -
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