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Attention all patriotic, flag-waving, military-supporting NASCAR fans, drivers, and teams.  Lt. Colonel Brett Sylvia and his troops need YOU. Lt. Colonel Sylvia has just been deployed to Camp Eggers in Kabul, Afghanistan for 22 months.  Sylvia will be leading his battalion of men and women in the Army in a NATO mission promoting economic independence in Afghanistan. Lt. Colonel Sylvia will be away from home, defending our freedom for the next two years, which is a long time to be away from friends and family, as well as his passion, that of NASCAR racing.  And he is not alone, as the men ...

Former NBA player Jayson Williams is back in the limelight. Unfortunately for Williams, it is due to another notch on his belt of legal woes. Early Tuesday morning, Williams drove his SUV into a tree off of a Manhattan road, and was later charged with driving while intoxicated (DWI). Since the notorious incident at his New Jersey home in February of 2002, Williams has had three run ins with the law, all of which have occurred since April of 2009. He was tasered by NYPD officers in his hotel room in April of 2009, because of violent and suicidal behavior, along with the fact he was ...

You can say this much for David Stern. He doesn't need a nickname to live up to. His own will do just fine. Stern responded decisively to Gilbert Arenas' less-than-subtle revealing of firearms in an NBA locker room (that of the former Washington Bullets, no less) —an indefinite suspension, with Stern alluding to "perhaps worse" to come. This shouldn't come as a surprise. Stern suspended Boris Diaw and Amare Stoudemire from a Game Five playoff game for merely leaving the bench. He felt justified in suspending Ron Artest for the rest of the 2004-05 season for wielding fists in the arena. It's no surprise the ...

TWO WAYS YOU WON’T MAKE HER CARE ABOUT SPORTS Desperate times call for desperate measures, but if you choose either of these two roads to failure, you’re going to regret it. 10. Don’t Make A Deal With The Devil My buddy had a girlfriend who acted like Warden Norton from “Shawshank Redemption ” and treated him like Andy Dufresne. She was glued to his hip like he was on 24/7 probation watch, with the only difference being that my friend wasn’t nearly as smart as Dufresne. Case in point: when she made a deal with him to ...

Sports fans, if you are like me, you enjoy catching almost all things ESPN. There's ESPN Radio, the podcasts, SportsCenter, and on and online. Well yesterday, on a podcast, an employee of ESPN made a racially insensitive joke aimed at Toby Gerhardt of Stanford. As of this writing (8:00 AM MST, 10:00 AM EST), there isn't a word of any reprimand being passed down toward the individuals. Before I get into why this is frustrating me, I guess I better point out the crime. On the Football Today podcast for Jan. 5, Jeremy Green and his co-host, a character that goes ...

Movies about people who rise above their circumstances and get an opportunity to live the American dream are the type I usually enjoy. "The Blind Side" was an interesting movie which I viewed with my mother and a few other family members. The only words that may have surprised some folks were in the reference to "cutting off" his p-n-s, which certainly made a point to warn the movie version of Oher about getting a woman pregnant. The only thing about that line in the movie is we all know it takes "two to tango." One review that I read mentioned that ...

Thanks to the unforgiving, brutal weather currently victimising certain areas of England, the Carling Cup semifinal clash between Manchester City and Manchester United, as well as the one between Aston Villa and Blackburn Rovers, has been postponed. Heavy snowfall in the English county of Lancashire has prevented both highly anticipated clashes from proceeding as scheduled. Also, in Staffordshire, where Stoke City host Fulham in the first Premier League match of the new decade, heavy snow threatened (but ultimately failed) to disrupt the encounter from going ahead as planned. In England, this severe weather is perhaps symbolic of the new decade, and these fixtures which fell ...

The dictionary definition of persistence is: continuing in spite of opposition; enduring, lasting or recurrent. In a nutshell, I feel strongly that a persistent effort in every aspect of the college search for athletes will, in the end, give prospects and their families the greatest chance at success. I work with athletes throughout the country, assisting them in putting their plans together for the college search. From place kickers in Southern California to midfield lacrosse players in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, the one common thread that helps weave my college quest plans for families is the necessity to embrace persistence as a critical tool ...

Everybody loves lists, but sometimes all a list does is start a debate. That’s not a bad thing—debating—but it’s not always a good thing either. Therefore, I’m not numbering my list of the most memorable sports stories of the decade. To me, each of these five stories was terribly memorable. Some were more emotionally significant to me than others, but all five helped define the decade in sport.    My Five Most Memorable American Sports Stories of the Decade   Pat Tillman It wouldn’t be correct to simply categorize the story of Pat Tillman as Pat Tillman’s death, because Tillman ...

If 2009 taught us anything, we learned that more and more athletes continue to make decisions which jeopardize their careers and their image to the public. For years we, as fans, have seen many promising athletes make decisions that affect the rest of their lives, and all of these decisions could be easily avoided. Some of the eyebrow raising incidents of 2009 include: ·         Most recently, we had two teammates pull guns on each other in their very own team locker room. If I was a part of the Washington Wizards organization, I would be looking for a way out. ·         Three Tennessee football players were charged ...