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Kelly Clark can't hide her love for God
Kelly Clark sat alone in a Utah hotel room, writing in her journal. It was another contest beginning another season: 2004, two years past the pinnacle of her stellar career when she became the first American female to win an Olympic snowboarding gold medal. That same year, 2002, she also won every other event, including the Winter X Games, and attained all her professional goals—at age 18. Clark was the queen of snowboarding and had everything: fame, money, travel, the ability to dictate her career. It was incredible—for a little while...
READ MORECutch in the Clutch
The calmness in Andrew McCutchen’s demeanor mirrors his play on the field. When he plays for the Pittsburgh Pirates, you see a smooth, graceful athlete who easily covers the space in centerfield, has a fluid swing at the plate and runs the bases extremely well. He’s that complete player the Pirates Need in the leadoff position and the reason they selected him 11th overall in the 2005 Major League Baseball draft out of Fort Meade (Fla.) High School...
READ MOREHumbled to Play
Eddie Perez was watching a television in a room off the Atlanta bullpen when he heard a knock on the door. The Braves coach knew it was the home run ball he had just seen burst off the bat of a hometown prodigy taking his first swing in the big leagues. “When we were watching in there, we got excited and we hear pop!” says Perez, who sensed more than the usual fan celebration at Turner Field. “Everybody was going crazy. It was like the birth of a new star...
READ MORESurvival In Death Valley
The Badwater Ultramarathon has been recognized as the toughest footrace on the planet according to National Geographic magazine. From the starting line in the bowels of Death Valley, athletes traverse 135 miles with temperatures at 130 degrees or higher on scorching, 200-degree pavement with several elevation changes from sea level to the finish line high on Mt. Whitney. Frank McKinney, real estate mogul, a 5-time, best-selling author...
READ MOREUnpackin' It -- Bob Harris
BRYCE JOHNSON: As someone who is so entrenched with the Duke program, how do you handle it when Duke loses? BOB HARRIS: Better than I used to, let’s put it that way! But, you know, about the third or fourth year I had the Duke job, I remember we had lost a football game and I was heading home and I was just really grousing about it, and all of a sudden, and I don’t know why, but something just told me, “Bob you get paid the same dollar for a win or a loss. You don’t have to take it so hard.” So I try to keep that in perspective...
READ MORERiding the Roller Coaster
Heaven knows it’s not listed among the official records set by the Tampa Bay Storm...
READ MORERunning an Amazing Race
Andy Finch and Tommy Czeschin stood in Cathedral Square in Panama City, Panama. The flowing...
READ MORETom Landry - Man of Honor
Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Thomas Wade Landry was born in a place with a name that’s a good description for his life – Mission. As a young man he left that Texas town for his first task – taking to the air. No, he wasn’t developing serious hang-time as a punter, but he was...
READ MORENCAA Women's Basketball Power Rankings
1. Baylor: Reigning national champs. Reigning national player of the year Brittney Griner. All five...
READ MORETraining Table -- NCAA Football (Week 5)
Monday “If a man shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too...
READ MOREFrom the Archives -- God and Goals
Lying in bed for two months with a broken neck, 18-year-old Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite made a list of 10 goals. Nevermind the fact that he was uncertain to ever play again after fracturing his sixth vertebra at the bottom of a waterslide. And forget cautious optimism. These were audacious dreams even for a boy raised on the soccer mania of Brazil...
READ MORE"Conversations" with AJ Styles
This is the first in a series we are starting here on SportsSpectrum.com called Sports Spectrum "Conversations," where, you guessed it, we have a conversation with a Christian athlete or personality. It will be in Q&A format and in audio podcast to go along side of it, so you can enjoy the interview either way. This edition of Sports Spectrum "Conversations" features the man who many people call the face of TNA Wrestling (Thursdays 8 ET SPIKE TV), the "Phenomenal" AJ Styles. Styles (born Allen Neal Jones) is a TNA Grand Slam champion, which means he's held every championship there is to hold in the company, and is one of the most exciting wrestlers in all of pro wrestling today. Styles joins us to talk about his wrestling career, how he became a Christian, what it's like be a Christian in the pro wrestling industry, why Tim Tebow can't take his shirt off in public, his love for Christian hip-hop, and the Super Mario Bros...
READ MOREStruggles make triathlete Hunter Kemper refocus priorities
Triathlete Hunter Kemper finished 14th on Tuesday in the London 2012 men's triathlon, becoming the top American men's finisher in all four Olympic games since the triathlon made its debut 12 years ago. He covered the 1,500-meter swim, 43-kilometer bike, 10-kilometer run course in 1 hour, 48 minutes, 46 seconds. He was seventh in 2008 in Beijing, ninth in 2004 in Athens and 17th in 2000 in Sydney. Our story on Kemper was published in the Vol. 26, No. 3 issue of Sports Spectrum magazine...
READ MOREIn the News: Matt Forte
Tonight, two of the top running backs in the league in Philadelphia's LeSean McCoy and Chicago's Matt Forte will go up against one another. Forte is averaging 155.9 yards per game and is averaging 171.3 yards in his last four contests. He also has 38 receptions for 419 yards this season as the Bears' primary receiver. Chicago Sun-Times columnist Sean Jensen wrote this story about Forte for Sports Spectrum's Fall 2010 issue. Chicago Bears running back Matt Forte highlighted the positive amid all the negativity last season. After breaking the team’s single-season rushing record for a rookie (1,238 yards), Forte appeared to experience a sophomore slump and finished with nearly 300 fewer yards. Or so everyone believed...
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