League Getting Close

It won't be long and we will be starting up with our camps and summer leagues. A sure sign that it is getting close is when our new summer league t-shirts arrive.

Jessica's T-Shirts

When you play 2 sports, you get a lot of t-shirts. What do you do with all the t-shirts? One idea is to make a quilt. Jessica Lieber has turned all of her golf and basketball t-shirts into this huge quilt- pretty impressive.

Bob Aagard for LD 18 Chair

Bob Aagard has had a life long interest in politics dating back to Jr High, when he polled 100 of his classmates in Jr High to see who they would vote for if they could vote in that year's Presidential Election.  The year was 1992.

Bob founded Mormons for Dean in 2003, one of the first "public interest" groups founded in support of Howard Dean's 2004 candidacy for President.  Since then, he has volunteered for many races, including those for Peter Corroon (Salt Lake County Mayor 2004, 2008; Governor 2010), and Pete Ashdown (Senate 2006).  Bob founded Mormons for Obama in 2007, and worked for the Utah Democratic Party in 2007-2008.


In 2011, Bob saw the injustice of HB 477, which was the much disliked bill that harmed Utah citizens' ability to access government records through GRAMA.  He organized the first anti-HB477 rally at the Capitol within 48 hours (before the Governor signed the bill), and was one of the founders of the SAVE GRAMA PIC that lead the initiative drive to reverse the bill.  Shortly after the initiative drive started, the Legislature reversed the law in a special session, something they rarely do.  Because of his efforts, he was named an OpenGov Champion by the Sunlight Foundation based in Washington DC.




Bob recently relocated to Farmington, and is looking forward to helping get Democrats elected in his new home.

Other Highlights:

-blogger, "The World, According to Me" since 2001
-Precinct 4007 Chair, 2004-2012
-District 36 Vice Chair, 2006
-Salt Lake County delegate- 2004-2011
-State Delegate 2004-2011
-candidate, Salt Lake County Party Secretary, 2005
-candidate, Obama national delegate, 2008

The Heat- Why???

Explain to me why the following happened in the Bulls-Heat game #1....

LeBron wears a pair of shoes he has NEVER worn before. It was his special Nike "MVP" editions.  At half time he changes into his regular shoes. Where is a player's focus when they are doing that?

James, Allen, and Wade all had plays where they missed a shot, stayed to plead their case the ref that they were fouled. While they were pleading their case, the Bulls were scoring on a 5 vs. 4 fastbreak.

At the end of the game with about 20 seconds to go, only Allen tried to get the ball and tried to foul. The rest just stood and gave up.

Why did the Heat do this? My answer is that all three of these acts were acts of arrogance. The game was not about winning or team, it was about look at me- I am the MVP. It could not be that a Bull's defender made a player or that one of the Heat stars actually made a bad shot-- it had to be a foul. And fouling and playing the game out until the buzzer is not something stars should have to do.

Will the Bulls win the series? Probably not, but they have surprised us over and over with something called toughness and team work. I just know the Bulls are fun to watch because of how they play the game, while the Heat too often represent all that is wrong with pro athletes.

Need Inspiration? Watch This!

This is pretty inspiring video....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciYk-UwqFKA