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  • The High School That I Went To Was A Big ...

    Contributed by Curt Cizek on Nov 21, 2008
     | 1,262 views

    -The high school that I went to was a big football, track and wrestling school -All of the best athletes played football -The coach of the team highly encouraged his best players to not play basketball anymore but to concentrate during the winter on lifting weights instead of shooting a ...read more

  • Beauty's True Source  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Feb 27, 2004
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,927 views

    [Beauty’s True Source, Citation: Jim Congdon] A jarring TV commercial didn’t say a word. It simply shows a series of people who have one thing in common—a nasty injury or scar. There’s a cowboy with a huge scar around his eye, and something wrong with the eye itself; a fellow with a bulbous ...read more

  • Michael Jordan The Leader For Basketball Is A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeremey Brown on Nov 28, 2001
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,394 views

    Michael Jordan the leader for basketball is a good ball player because of how he plays. “I’ve never been a vocal leader. I lead with my play. My play does all my talking. I go out every night and play like I’m playing the last game.” Jordan Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in basketball ...read more

  • The Olympic Scandal Of '67

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Aug 10, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,632 views

    The Olympic Scandal of '67 In the year AD 67 the Olympics were held and six events were won by a quite prestigious competitor. The events were: Heralds (a trumpet blowing competition - the winners were then enlisted to announce the athletes) Tethripon (four horse chariot) Foals Tethripon (four ...read more

  • Stripped Pride

    Contributed by John Scott on Aug 16, 2014
     | 4,363 views

    Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad marches — or runs — to the beat of a different drummer. The 29-year-old French athlete was up to his old tricks Thursday. The two-time Olympic silver medalist was on the verge of winning his third straight title in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the European ...read more

  • The Familiar Orange Box And The Slogan "The ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Aug 29, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,067 views

    The familiar orange box and the slogan "The Breakfast of Champions" have become more than just advertising symbols. They have become a metaphor for sports greatness and success. Many athletes, at the pinnacle of their success, have shared their childhood dreams about someday joining the legends who ...read more

  • Prestige Professions Americans List The Following ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 1,662 views

    Prestige Professions Americans list the following professions and occupations in the order of having "great prestige" according to The Harris Poll: · Doctor (61%) · Teacher (54%) · Scientist (53%) · Minister/clergy (43%) · Military officer (40%) · Policeman (37%) · Engineer (36%) · Architect ...read more

  • What Team Are You On?

    Contributed by James R. Debusk on Mar 25, 2011
     | 2,117 views

    WHAT TEAM ARE YOU ON? At this time of the year, young men are signing letters of intent to play football to the various colleges that have recruited them. These young athletes are making a choice of where they will play football. In life we have a spiritual decision on which team we will be a ...read more

  • Panel Of Women Debated On What They Thought Was A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Mar 18, 2002
    based on 112 ratings
     | 1,807 views

    Panel of Women debated on what they thought was a perfect man, a guy who was ‘with it’. You would have thought they would have decided upon some actor or athlete even a wealthy tycoon. They decided that the perfect man was MR POTATO HEAD. 4 Reasons: ‘He’s tan, he’s cute, he ...read more

  • Teens Admire...?

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Mar 10, 2010
     | 2,447 views

    TEENS ADMIRE...? Have you thought lately about who teenagers admire? World Almanac and Book of Facts surveyed eight graders a few years ago and discovered that the top thirty names were movie stars and athletes. Not one admired adult was a religious leader, statesman, author, painter, doctor, ...read more

  • Gratitude And Sacrifice

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 30, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,931 views

    GRATITUDE AND SACRIFICE Since the Son of God has died for me, then the least I can do is live for Him. "If Jesus Christ be God and died for me," said the great British athlete C. T. Studd, "then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for him." (Source: Norman Grubb, C. T. ...read more

  • Without Kindness The Teachable Become Arrogant In ...

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jul 8, 2006
     | 2,653 views

    Without kindness the teachable become arrogant in their learning. Without kindness we have only puffed up people, they taunt, they think it’s all about M-E! Video Clip - Coach Carter - mpeg 2:04 Coach Carter s right. When is working hard not enough? When is winning not enough? When it’s ...read more

  • Missing Husband

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 8, 2012
     | 4,365 views

    MISSING HUSBAND A woman went to the police station to report her husband as missing. She described him as "29 years old, six foot three, athletic, and handsome." The sergeant shook his head. "Wait a minute, lady. I know your husband. He’s 50, short, and overweight." The woman said, ...read more

  • Dr. Maxie Dunnam Is One Of The Outstanding ...  PRO

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Feb 9, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,740 views

    Dr. Maxie Dunnam is one of the outstanding evangelical leaders in the United Methodist Church that I deeply admire. Maxie is the current Chancellor of Asbury Theological Seminary and her former President. He served the Upper Room Fellowship as their world editor and was the founding International ...read more

  • A College-Football Coach Was Faced With The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Jones on Jan 13, 2003
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,294 views

    A college-football coach was faced with the possibility that his star player might be declared academically ineligible, so he pleaded with the math professor not to flunk the kid. "Tell you what, coach," said the professor, "I'll ask him a question in your presence. If he gets it right, Ill pass ...read more

  • Research Is Wonderful. Sometimes It Means ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,284 views

    Research is wonderful. Sometimes it means nothing and sometimes there can be a lot of information in these statistics. For instance, researchers for the World Almanac and Book of Facts asked 2000 American eighth-grade students to name prominent people they admired and wanted to be like. Those ...read more

  • In The Days Of The Roman Emperor Nero, There ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,087 views

    In the days of the Roman Emperor Nero, there lived and served him a band of soldiers known as the "Emperor’s Wrestlers." Fine, stalwart men they were, picked from the best and the bravest of the land, recruited from the great athletes of the Roman amphitheater. In the great amphitheater they ...read more

  • They Said It Couldn't Be Done

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
     | 2,609 views

    THEY SAID IT COULDN'T BE DONE They experts said it was physically impossible for a human being to run a mile in four minutes. Our bone structure was all wrong, the wind resistance was too great, our lung power was inadequate. There appeared to be a 101 reasons why it could not be done! Then one ...read more

  • Super Bowl Mvp

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Feb 14, 2022
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,068 views

    When receiver Cooper Krupp was named MVP of the 2021 NFL Super Bowl fans may think an athlete would soak up the attention, inflate their ego and define their identity according to their on field accomplishments. But Kupp actually minimized the place of football and elevated the kingdom of God. He ...read more

  • Sports Idolatry

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Aug 30, 2010
     | 4,279 views

    Here’s a little statistic published in 1998 in The Economist that I use in my Ethics class at DePaul. According to the article, “Superhuman Heroes,” a survey of 198 top athletes conducted in 1995 had more than 50% stating that they would be willing to take a drug that would help them win every ...read more