Author: David Obrand
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NO WAY OUT BUT THROUGH – Chapter 1
Chapter 1 – These Dreams The walls here at Silver Heller & Edison, LLP are plastered with movie posters, blown up book covers, patents, and product advertisements. Tonight, the hallways are dark and quiet except for the sound of the furious typing and the bright fluorescent light emanating from this barren and tiny, windowless room. …
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The Ducks come Quacking
To date, our Goal Posts have exclaimed their ancient roots by featuring teams that are no longer UCLA conference rivals, if not football teams that only exist in history today. A little over the top? Yeah. That’s the hook because this one is going to be short. I have been meaning to write this post…
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SHE’S LETTING YOU KNOW SHE’S GOT THIS.
Today calls for focus – all my life calls for this moment. Focus, the thing I am told, by experience and by others, I do not have. A “lack of focus” creates endless obstacles against all of my life’s pursuits. Insurmountable at times. It seems. But today, there is no time to think about my struggle…
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Cubs no more: UCLA Football 1931
Perhaps a look at the 1931 football season will raise some eyebrows in light of the title chosen for this piece. Entering its 13th year of existence, and its 13th football season, UCLA was still a relative newcomer to the preeminent football conference in the West, the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC). After three seasons in…
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Ceci N’est Pas le Goal Post
Welcome! The Goal Post became the “Official Souvenir Program” of UCLA football beginning with the 1931 football season. But The Goal Post was first used by UCLA as the title for its football magazine during the 1930 season. And if you look at volume numbers in later editions, these 1930-season programs we not included. This…
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Chapter 2 – Brotherly Love
Jorge Delgado is 27. His parents both come from Mexican descent but their families each had taken root in what is now Los Angeles generations before the families of our friends at UCLA Law came to this country. Our mostly white friends, whose families entered the United States through Ellis Island. Families like mine, but…
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We All Must Be Activists
“For every famous activist, whose name is etched into a book, There are hundreds more history never knew under whose feet the ground also shook.
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A Handwritten Letter
Originally posted on IG on April 8, 2023 When was the last time you wrote a letter? Dad was a prolific letter writer. I know he wrote some to mom and I have some of my own. But beside sending a note to a loved one, Dad utilized letter writing to develop his research before…
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Super Bowl I
Originally posted on IG February 12, 2023. Happy Super Bowl Sunday friends! You might have noticed a theme this week and I’m so excited to share dad’s program from Super Bowl I, played on a January 15, 1967. If I remember correctly, this was a gift from dad’s mentor/friend Bill Schroeder who started the Helm’s…
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Empire of Dreams
Clouded with doubt, his mind still would not let him explore the answer to this question until he had exhausted every effort to defy the seemingly inevitable course toward failure.
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