Patriots’ quarterback, Tom Brady, is married to supermodel Gisele Bundchen. She wasn’t too super recently when she was caught cursing the players that dropped her husband’s passes during the Superbowl. Someone recorded the outburst and put it on the Internet. (In a strange twist before the game a private email of hers had made the [...]
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Did She Say That?
Posted in Sports, Walking with God, tagged Ecclesiastes 10:20, Ecclesiastes 7:21-22, Gisele Bundchen, James 3:6, Matthew 15:18, Speech, Tom Brady, words on February 7, 2012 | 3 Comments »
The Gift that Keeps On Giving
Posted in Friends, Sports, Walking with God, tagged giving, God's gift, Specialized Roubaix on July 12, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Last month I turned 50. I could have been bothered but my friends did so many kind things to show this aging boy they cared. One really special gift was from the church. They bought me a bicycle. I really can ride off into the sunset. On the second ride I stopped and picked up [...]
Facing Loss In Life
Posted in Walking with God, Sports, tagged Jayhawks, Kansas Basketball, Thomas Robinson, 1 Thessalonians 4:18, thief on the cross on January 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
There are losses and then there are losses. Saturday, the Kansas Jayhawks lost their first game this year. It was disappointing (especially if you watched it in Texas like I did!). The loss was overshadowed by another. One of the players, Thomas Robinson, lost his mother the night before. Imagine the burden for the young [...]
Watching the Highlight Film
Posted in Sports, Uncategorized, Walking with God, tagged Bible, coaching, Football, Psalm 111:3, ways of God on October 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Football coaches have an appetite for details. Evidence of this is their propensity toward studying game film. They will watch games from the past week, the past years, their own team and the team they will be playing, and sometimes even from past teams the coach used to be coaching. All of this is to [...]
More Length From Your Drive
Posted in Sports, Walking with God on June 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What makes something fun? Fun is not necessarily easy: I am a bad golfer, the course was soggy and walking was hard, I have a sunburn today because of it all. Yet, I had fun yesterday. Still, the question remains: “What makes something fun?” I was with people I really like, and we were helping [...]
2009 Miles In 2009
Posted in Sports on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t purchased my turkey hunting tags for this fall yet, because I was wanting to reach the 2,000 milestone on my bike first. So now that I have made it (All the way to 2009 to be exact) it is time to buy the tags and head into the woods. PS. I road past [...]
8 X 3 = 24
Posted in Friends, Sports, Walking with God, tagged bicycle rides, bicycling, love, MS-150 on September 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
8 X 3 = 24, and that is the total number of combinations that can be found on the gears of my bicycle. Technically the owner’s manual gives a caution to using the extreme high and low sprockets together (so only 22 combinations are allowed). The rear cassette (gears directly attached to the rear wheel) [...]
MS-150 minus 50 & 1 day
Posted in Friends, Sports, tagged bicycling, MS-150, Multiple Sclerosis on September 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
You’re supposed to ride the MS-150 in two days. I am going to ride it in one. Then you are supposed to ride 150 miles, but I am only going to ride 100 miles. To make sure I do it all I have a friend riding with me, Merrill Jacobs. He works next door to [...]
We’re Talking Baseball
Posted in Sports, Walking with God on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Seventy-five friends of mine all went to the Royals game last week. The Royals . . . lost! The tickets came with a coupon for $10 in concessions (enough for a bag of peanuts and hotdog). Afterwards there were fireworks. A bunch of runs were scored and the evening was beautiful. BUT THEY LOST! I [...]
Fog, Prayer, and Cadence
Posted in Sports, The wonders of creation, Walking with God, tagged bicycling, fog, Lake Perry, prayer on July 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Crisp cool air greeted me as the morning bike ride began. The first mile or two are always strange until the road, chain and breathing establishes a cadence for the day. Alone on the road (commuters passing by in cars hardly count) with my own thoughts. The sun has just begun to creep up over the horizon [...]
