The Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation

The Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation. Providing educational and recreational opportunities to enhance the character, self-esteem and career possibilities of at-risk boys and girls.

Deanna Favre Hope Foundation

The mission of the Deanna Favre HOPE Foundation is to provide assistance to women who are underserved or underinsured in their battle against breast cancer.

Stefanie Spielman Fund for Breast Cancer Research

Stefanie Spielman Fund for Breast Cancer Research


Our Mission:
To improve people’s lives through innovation in research, education and patient care.

Our Values:
Integrity
Teamwork
Innovation
Excellence
Leadership

Our Vision:
Working as a team, we will shape the future of medicine by creating, disseminating and applying new knowledge, and by personalizing health care to meet the needs of each individual.

The Bob Tebow Evangelistic Association

The Bob Tebow Evangelistic Association has been serving in the Philippines since 1985 with five major priorities: Evangelism, Church Planting, Pastor Training, an Orphanage, and the Training of the Next Generation of Evangelists. It is the primary goal of BTEA to make the Gospel of Jesus Christ available to every person in the world.

In 1998, BTEA began to implement a plan to preach the Gospel in every barangay (village) in the Philippines. There are approximately 42,000 barangays in the Philippines and it is estimated that over 64% of them do not have a single evangelical church. In a country of 87 million, the number of people who have never heard the Gospel is staggering. These statistics do not even take into account the dozens of ethnic tribal groups that have been living on obscure islands and in remote mountain villages for centuries. It is our goal to go to each and every barangay and give the people the opportunity to hear the Gospel at least one time. In addition to preaching the Gospel, we are endeavoring to plant indigenous churches with the new converts and train national pastors. It is a tremendous task that must be completed.


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Merry Christmas!

Duke University

Duke University has a new football coach. David Cutcliffe has been hired. The former Ole Miss coach was 44-29 in six seasons as the head coach at the University of Mississippi.

Heisman Trophy

Tim Tebow from the University of Florida recently won the Heisman Trophy. He became the third quarterback from Florida to win the most prestigous award in college football. Steve Spurrier and Danny Wuerffel preceded him. Each were children of ministers.

Rich Rodriguez

The University of Michigan has a new football coach. His name is Rich Rodriguez. Rodriguez was hired from West Virginia.

Salem College 2-8-0 1yr
Glenville State 43-28-2 7yrs
West Virginia 60-26-0 7yrs
Total 104-62-2 15yrs

Sylvia Hutton

Sylvia Hutton turns 51 today. Happy birthday to Sylvia.

Robert Cade, Gatorade inventor died recently

Dr. J. Robert Cade, who invented the sports drink Gatorade and launched a multibillion-dollar industry that the beverage continues to dominate, died Tuesday of kidney failure.
He was 80. His death was announced by the University of Florida, where he and other researchers created Gatorade in 1965 to help the school’s football players replace carbohydrates and electrolytes lost through sweat while playing in swamp-like heat.
Cade’s researchers determined a football player could lose up to 18 pounds — 90 to 95 percent of it water — during the three hours it takes to play a game. Players sweated away sodium and chloride and lost plasma volume and blood volume.
Using their research, and about $43 in supplies, they concocted a brew for players to drink while playing football. The first batch was not exactly a hit.
“It sort of tasted like toilet bowl cleaner,” said Dana Shires, one of the researchers.
The researchers added some sugar and some lemon juice to improve the taste. It was first tested on freshmen because Coach Ray Graves didn’t want to hurt the varsity team. Eventually, however, the use of the sports beverage spread to the Gators, who enjoyed a winning record and were known as a “second-half team” by outlasting opponents.

Evel Knievel dies at 69

Evel Knievel, the red-white-and-blue-spangled motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over crazy obstacles including Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho's Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.

Anne Donovan

Anne Donovan has resigned from head coach of the WNBA's Seattle Storm. Donovan became the second coach in Storm history in 2002 after two seasons leading the Charlotte Sting. She coached Seattle to a regular-season record of 93-77 (.547) and to four playoff appearances. That included the league championship in 2004 -- Seattle's second major professional sports title in the last half-century. In 2005, she became the first female coach in the WNBA to win 100 games. Last season, she became the second-winningest coach in league history.

Sandra Lee

Sandra Lee from the Food Network has written her memoir. It is called Made From Scratch and it is available from Amazon.

Lloyd Carr

University of Michigan football head coach Lloyd Carr announced today his retirement from coaching after 28 seasons with the Wolverine program. Carr is second to only Bennie Oosterbaan (31 years; 20 years as an assistant and 11 years as head coach) in years of service with the nation's winningest college football program. As head coach, Carr has compiled a 121-40 overall record and is currently seventh among active coaches with a .752 winning percentage. He has led the Wolverines to six 10-win seasons. Carr trails only Fielding H. Yost (165-29-10) and Bo Schembechler (194-48-5) in career victories at Michigan.

Kim Mulkey

Kim Mulkey has written a book. It is called "Won't Back Down" and it is available from Amazon.

Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today

Tom Brokaw has written another excellent book. It is called Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today and is available from Amazon.

Happy Veterans Day

Happy Veterans Day. Here is a history of Veterans Day.

NAVY BEAT ND IN FOOTBALL!

Navy finally beat Notre Dame 46-44 in triple overtime on Saturday, ending the Fighting Irish's NCAA-record winning streak against the Midshipmen at 43 games.

Susan G. Komen For The Cure

Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, that she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever.

In 1982, that promise became Susan G. Komen for the Cure and launched the global breast cancer movement. Today, Komen for the Cure is the world's largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures. Thanks to events like the Komen Race for the Cure, we have invested nearly $1 billion to fulfill our promise, becoming the largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to the fight against breast cancer in the world.

Tommy Zbikowski

Tommy Zbikowski has established Tommy Z9 Foundation to help contribute to several charitable foundations. Charitable organizations we have donated to include the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Hannah and Friends, Make a Wish, and PanCan.