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stephenPE

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Anyone who’s ever attended a graduation ceremony knows the commencement speaker faces a very special challenge: Be inspiring. Use soaring rhetoric. And say something that may echo for years after.

This commencement season is no exception, but one of the best pieces of advice delivered so far was a bit more blunt: “Demand the ball.”

If you haven’t heard Abby Wambach’s address to Barnard College graduates, do yourself a favor and look it up. You may think this a surprising source from an unusual location, but I’d encourage you to watch the video and hear the soccer legend deliver her impassioned words.


“Demand the ball” is a lesson that Wambach learned from another soccer legend, Michelle Akers. Wambach recalled how, as a teenager, she got a chance to play a scrimmage match with Akers, whom she described as “one of my heroes.”

http://www.theindependent.com/opini...cle_fd01e118-6a9e-11e8-b101-5feeb8d1d4ed.html
 

MidwestChomp

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Well Akers (one of the greats) taught Wambach (maybe the greatest) well.
 

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"You got the whole fist in there Doc?"

I can go on all day, LOL. Now get over to the Chicken Hut for some lunch!!!

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Windy City Gyro today...broadway and irving park. Parking for the Chicken Hut is a mess.

Always nice to see posters get the obscure, random cult movie quotes. Well done!
 

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