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College Football Preview: Florida State Projected for National Championship Run

Carl Foster
16 Aug 2016
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Alabama’s Crimson Tide defeated Clemson in year two of the College Football Playoff Championships and both programs are deep in talent again for the coming college football season. Coaches Nick Saban and Dabo Sweeney should no doubt be back in the Final 4 playoff series. One big challenge for the Clemson Tigers will be their late season visit to Tallahassee to face the loaded FSU Seminoles. Urban Meyer’s 2015 National Champion Ohio State Buckeyes slipped last season against Michigan State and sent over a dozen top players to the NFL from last year’s squad. The Buckeyes still have QB TJ […]

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Coral Springs Athlete Heads to Rio Seeking Gold

Shelly Pond
1 Aug 2016
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Coral Springs Athlete Tyler Merren is headed to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to compete in the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games on the U.S. Men’s Goalball team in September. A team sport developed for blind or visually impaired players, goalball utilizes a ball containing bells, which makes sounds when thrown at a goal at the opposing team’s end of the court. “It’s a mix of handball, volleyball and soccer,” explained Merren, whose team won a bronze medal at the 2004 Paralympics in Athens and took fourth place in the 2008 Games in Bejing. A quote on www.goalball.us states, “Lack of sight […]

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The Impact of High School Sports

Gabriella Morris
6 Nov 2015
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Whatever the sport of choice, many students dedicate 10 hours or more each week to participation in high school athletics, but is this time well spent? The Aspen Institute Project Play compiled the following facts from different studies on the benefits of sports on students: “When researchers from RWJF/Harvard/NPR asked about the positive effects playing sports has had for their children, they pointed to physical health (88%), giving the child something to do (83%), teaching discipline or dedication (81%), teaching how to get along with others (78%), mental health (73%), social life (65%), skills to help in future schooling (56%), […]

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Miami Heat Fired Up to Return to Playoffs

Carl Foster
6 Oct 2015
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The ball will tip off Tuesday, October 27, 2015, at the United Center, home of the Chicago Bulls, when LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers open the 2015–16 NBA season, the 70th year of the National Basketball Association. The early game will be followed by the 2015 NBA champion Golden State Warriors hosting the New Orleans Pelicans in the nightcap. The 2016 NBA All-Star Game will be played at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on Sunday, February 14, 2016. The regular season will end some six months later on Wednesday, April 13, 2016. The playoffs will begin on Saturday, April 16, 2016.   Pat Riley’s Successful […]

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NFL Florida Season Preview: Is This the Year for the Dolphin Playoffs?

Carl Foster
3 Sep 2015
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  South Florida Fin fans are starving to get back into the NFL playoffs and even national scribes are paying attention this year to the Miami Dolphins’ off season moves. Finally Miami ownership has made some significant investment in quality talent for the upcoming NFL season offensively and defensively and secured QB Ryan Tannehill as their franchise signal caller with a big fat payday. I like the talent on this year’s team, especially with the addition of Ndamukong Suh, but depth and coaching are still question marks. Can fourth-year coach Joe Philbin get Miami to 10 wins and the playoffs […]

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Rod Payne and Michael Blanc highlight 9th Annual FCA Celebrity Golf and Tennis Classic

The Good News
2 Sep 2015
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Former Baltimore Ravens SuperBowl Champion, Rod Payne, and former NFL player and NCAA Auburn National Champion, Michael Blanc, will headline the 9th Annual Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) Celebrity Golf and Tennis Classic  on September 27 and 28 at the Coral Ridge Country Club in Fort Lauderdale. “This year’s FCA event has expanded to include a tennis Pro-Am beginning Sunday afternoon, September 27 from 3-5:30 p.m., partnering with Match Point Ministries, Inc. and professional tennis coach, Scott Williams. In addition, former #1 men’s player in the world, Roscoe Tanner, and the record holder for the fastest serve on the WTA […]

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College Football Playoffs Enter Second Season

Carl Foster
4 Aug 2015
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  After 15 years of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS), college football’s title system that started in 1998, 2014 saw the new college football playoff format that did not use computer rankings or polls to select the participants. Rather, a 13-member committee selects and seeds the teams. The playoff system is the first time the top-level NCAA football championship has been determined by a bracket competition and still using the historic Bowl Games. The new format is a Plus-One system, an idea which became popular as an alternative to the BCS after the 2003 and 2004 seasons ended in controversy. The Ohio State Buckeyes, coached […]

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College Football’s Most Famous Family: Tommy Bowden on “Winning Character”

Carl Foster
1 Jun 2015
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Tommy Bowden coached for 32 years in college football, and in his first head coaching job at Tulane University in 1997, he lead his team to an undefeated season, a Conference USA Championship and a Liberty Bowl win. Bowden was named Conference USA Coach of the Year. In 1999, Bowden took over the head coaching position at Clemson University. He was named ACC Coach of the year in 1999 and 2003 and in 2006 received the Fellowship of Christian Athletes Coach of the Year Award. In 2003, Bowden defeated two coaches that had already earned 200 career wins to become […]

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Fellowship of Christian Athletes Seeks to Expand Their Athletic Outreach

Gabriella Morris
3 Apr 2015
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Ever since Fitzgerald Buhoo was only five or six, he wanted to be a pastor; now as an upperclassman at Hollywood Hills High School, he has been given the opportunity to be a light to the people around him through Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Though he isn’t a player on the team, he collaborated with the head football coach, Coach Lang, and FCA to counsel the football team. He’s able to talk to them about having good attitudes, how to be a problem solver not a problem maker and what it means to follow Christ. “It has allowed me to […]

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Presidential Faithfulness Inspires Our Own

Penni Bulten
1 Feb 2015
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The faith of American presidents affects the whole nation, as scripture itself affirms: “When the godly are in authority, the people rejoice. But when the wicked are in power, they groan” (Proverbs 29:2 NLT). A ruler may either rule wisely and administer justice or choose the path of injustice. The natural consequence of choosing injustice is that one’s subjects find themselves hiding places (Proverbs 28:12). Leaders serve as moral examples, not only by setting trends but also by reflecting them.   New life from war Presidents are often remembered for wielding power and influence, especially in wartime. Yet to lead […]

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