{"id":1574,"date":"2019-03-03T13:15:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T18:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2019-03-03T13:15:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T18:15:52","slug":"winning-the-big-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2019\/03\/03\/winning-the-big-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning the Big Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Winning the Big Ten<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-Hx0UExhKoE\">Congressman Jim Jordan on Meet the Press 3\/3\/19<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I listened to Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio today, fresh off his interrogation of Michael Cohen in front of the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday.&nbsp;&nbsp;Jordan is adept at sticking to his talking points, nimbly pivoting from questions about why the President would have allowed a man like Cohen at his side for ten 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to get his \u201cgood\u201d out of the Trump Administration, and ignore all of the bad.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s something that Jordan has been doing for most of his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was a successful high school track coach for forty years.&nbsp;&nbsp;We won league and district championships, lots of invitational meets, and hundreds of duals.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the second to last year of my career, I clearly had the best team I\u2019d ever coached.&nbsp;We had returning all-state runners, including one of the top distance runners in the nation.&nbsp;&nbsp;We had potentially state placing athletes in many events, enough so that we could begin to dream of taking home the ultimate prize, a state championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like any athletic endeavour, there is always a risk of injury.&nbsp;&nbsp;Going into May, we lost a key pole vaulter, but otherwise we remained strong.&nbsp;&nbsp;We won the league meet on by a huge margin, and 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