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On the Road with Mike

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

Pitbull was the surprise guest at TNT’s All-Star party on Saturday night. This year’s invitation only event took place at the House of Blues in Orlando. Pitbull played for about an hour and put on an electrifying show. There’s so much energy in his music, you can’t help but bounce around to the Latin-infused hip hop beats. In fact, I did some break dancing. Still, it was impossible to upstage Pitbull’s great performance.

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On the Road with Mike

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

I arrived in Orlando this afternoon and stumbled upon Chuck’s golf gear on my way to lunch. I’m a little concerned that my GM isn’t totally focused on tomorrow night’s Rising Stars Challenge.

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Mike Looks Back

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

I stumbled upon this blast from the past on the JMU Sports Blog. The Dukes team photo was taken back when I was Lou Campanelli’s assistant coach at James Madison University in the early seventies.

University of Iowa assistant basketball coach Sherman Dillard is in the picture standing next to Coach Campanelli. Sherman played at the guard position and was our best player. The Academic All-American was also a star off the court and graduated magna cum laude. Sherman went on to carve out a successful career coaching college ball and was the head men’s basketball coach at Indiana State and James Madison, where he was named CAA Coach of the Year in 2000.

Sherman was recruiting in the Cleveland area a couple months ago so we had an opportunity to grab dinner together and catch up. We both look a little older now, but Sherman remains an outstanding human being and one of my all-time favorite people.