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He built a volleyball power on optimism. He’s fighting cancer the same way.

Barry Goldberg is an optimistic man, the kind who tells people it’s a great day regardless of the weather. For the past 33 years, he has built a dominant women’s volleyball program at American University, a school not known much for sports, by never obsessing over what others had and he didn’t. Instead, he says, he can’t believe he gets paid to coach volleyball.

“Your whole career has been: ‘Make the most of it,’” his wife Bonnie recently told him.

And so now at 60, with cancer in his stomach that has spread to his bones, making it Stage 4, there is a matter-of-factness to Goldberg’s tone. Read More

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