The Montana and Villanova football programs come together in Chattanooga, Tennessee to decide the FCS (formerly Division 1-AA) national title.
Clemson University students engage in a form of fighting similar to what is known as “Belegarth,” the night before the Tiger football team takes on Florida State in Clemson, South Carolina. The students, known as the Tiger Knights of Appalachia, build their own foam weapons and meet three times a week on the Clemson campus.
Former U.S. Soccer star Michelle Akers is in a struggle to keep her horse rescue mission going after a major flood at her ranch in Georgia. When we caught up with her, she was receiving some much needed help from Mike Lyons and his family. Lyons is a coach for Sky Blue FC of Women’s Professional Soccer. He and his wife along with 3 children drove from New Jersey down to Georgia to assist Akers for a couple of days in December 2009.
The Michelle Akers Horse Rescue still has a mountain to climb in raising the funds necessary to clean up the mess caused by the major floods in Georgia during the fall of ’09.
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January 2nd, 2010 at 2:23 pm
LOVE the Michele Akers story!
January 25th, 2010 at 2:58 pm
Michelle shows the same drive in her horse rescue as she did on the soccer field (and monopoly). She WILL survive this. God Speed, Mich.
Love, Mom
March 7th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
I picked up your book, The Game and the Glory, from our church library and finished reading it last night. Thank you for writing your story. What a marvel and a praise to see how God was working in your life to bring you to Himself and never giving up on you. You are an incredible inspiration of the courage, discipline, and dedication it takes to play the game of soccer. On page 223 of your book, I was especially encouraged by your insight of Joshua 1:5. You wrote, “God is my strength and courage. I find that courage and strength because God will never fail or forsake me and is with me wherever I go. The point of this is, I don’t find strength or courage through my own resources (i.e., my knowledge, willpower, abilities), but I choose it because I know God is beside me-always. He becomes my strength, my confidence, my courage, and with Him at my side, I can overcome.” Then you listed those areas that were on your heart at that time. I want to do whatever God tells me to do with courage knowing He will give me the strength to do it and that He is always with me. Thanks for inspiring me through your book.