Coach delivers humility message
Edwardsville Intelligencer
As Larry Kindbom was winding down a 30-minute pep talk at the 2009 Mayors’ Annual Prayer Breakfast, he stepped away from the podium for a moment and grabbed a silver football helmet with a red “W” on the side. He passed it over to Edwardsvi...
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Jodi Airhart, 32, and Travis Hans, 27, led their Hits of Gold co-ed softball team through an undefeated fall season last year. So we asked them to give away a few secrets to dominating the field. Watch a video at desmoines.metromix.com.
Brink of extinction to mark of distinction
Chicago Sun-Times
... long earlier, knowing that ''old-time hockey,'' non-televised home games and team-building principles from the no-helmet era ... Not just to rink-heads, mind you, but to old ladies and baseball and football fans, too? ''I'll tell you t...
From One Patriots Rookie to Another: "It Feels Great To Belong"
Bleacherreport.com
As if not facing a daunting enough task as you strap on the Patriot's logo for the first time, just imagine if it was your first time strapping on a football helmet...ever. No Pee Wee. No high school. No college. While fellow teammates are ...
Brink of extinction to mark of distinction
Chicago Sun-Times
Look out, Chicago, there's a new sport in town. It's called NHL hockey, and if you had written it off for, oh, the last 40 years or so, who could blame you? After the Blackhawks' wild 7-5 comeback victory Monday against the Vancouver Can...
Coach delivers humility message
Edwardsville Intelligencer
As Larry Kindbom was winding down a 30-minute pep talk at the 2009 Mayors’ Annual Prayer Breakfast, he stepped away from the podium for a moment and grabbed a silver football helmet with a red “W” on the side.
Your Next 4,000 Yard Red Raider Passing King Has His Own Awesome ...
Sporting News
If he's any kind of pirate at all, he'll bring back at least the half-beard he sported at one point last year, sans mustache in the Amish style. That way it's less a beard and more of a chinstrap pad for your football helmet, and you can cl...
Springing into action
San Diego Union-Tribune
When Will Goodloe's Sharyland High football team opens spring drills, he expects dozens of people will be camped in the stands to watch. Football, even spring football, is big in Texas.
CORKY: Keep Congress out of college football
Green Valley News and Sun
Democrat Gene Green, another Texan, sat next to a football helmet from his alma mater, the University of Houston. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) introduced BCS coordinator John Swofford as the commissioner of the “Athletic Coast Conference.” It’s...
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The Southern Pines Pilot
PHS Basketball Camp The Patriot basketball camp for rising third through ninth grade boys and girls has been set for June15 through June 18. Each session will run from 8:30 a.m. until noon at the Pinecrest High School gym.
Trash talking in the SEC: A case for barbarism
Yahoo! Canada Sports
We are not in the habit of criticizing any Alabama columnist not named "Paul Finebaum," but his curmudgeonly sentiments seem to be escaping his hobbit-hole and coloring the views of his countrymen. Here's Al.com's Ray Melick with maybe the ...
Summer Fun 2009: YMCA and Kidsports activities
The Salisbury Post
Kidsports 2324 S. Main St. 704-638-0075.At Kidsports, camp counselors are called coaches. The coach to camper ratio is small for lots of individualize ...
Letting Cool Heads Prevail
Washington Post
You don't see anyone painting their football helmet, and Major League Baseball would never let you get away with this," said Jim Hynes, who wrote a book about goalie masks. It happened by chance, but "it's a happy marketing thing for pro ho...
Tate makes it work as two-sport star
ESPN.com
No matter what kind of helmet and uniform Tate wears for the Irish, he serves as an offensive catalyst who rivets the ... But Tate has given deeper thought to the differences between football and baseball. "Football is just so much more dem...
1 Hospitalized After Fallbrook Home Invasion
San Diego Channel
FALLBROOK, Calif. -- A Fallbrook resident was hospitalized Thursday with a head injury after four men barged into a home and ordered everyone inside to the ground while they took a safe and a helmet autographed by a professional football pl...