Trevor Bayne may have won the Daytona 500 on Sunday, but a small charity he name-dropped will share in the spoils of victory. The 20-year-old NASCAR driver was racing in just his second Sprint Cup competition and is now etched in the record books as the youngest driver to win the sports’ biggest race.
In his new book, “Coming Back Stronger: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Adversity” Drew Brees tells his story of a potentially career-ending shoulder injury which left the quarterback without a team and faced with the daunting task of having to learn to throw a football all over again, coaches around the NFL wondered, would he ever come back?
She was falling. Fast. Smoking weed, drinking and hanging out with the wrong people. Cheyenne McKinney went from someone who was doing a lot at Booker T. Washington High School to someone who no one thought would graduate. Then she met Keith Reed.
For most of us, trying to ride on the back of a stompin’, kickin’, thrashin’ bucking bull would seem an eternity of sheer terror. For Wiley Petersen it’s eight seconds of sheer adrenalin and joy. Wiley, from Fort Hall, Idaho, dreamed of being a Professional Bull Rider since he was ten years old. He became a devoted follower of Jesus Christ when he was eighteen and now uses the platform he has as a Pro Bull Rider to share his faith with everyone he meets.
You have no idea what the NFL is losing in Kurt Warner, who Friday afternoon announced the end of his NFL playing career after 12 seasons. I’m sad that he’s retiring. You should be, too. We’ll never see another player like him.
Jeremiah Castille knows all about success on the football field. He played under legendary Alabama coach Paul “Bear” Bryant for four years, won a national championship, earned All-American honors and enjoyed a six-year pro career that included a trip to Super Bowl XXII.
