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Heavy Weights Jared was hurt. He had taken a bad hit from an odd angle from an opposing teammate in the final three minutes of the fourth quarter in the last game of the regular season (our town’s high school had advanced to playoffs), then landed even worse on his right shoulder. I don’t find it surprising at all that many of the injuries incurred by football players are virtually identical to what happens to people in automobile accidents. It’s true that you may not have two tons of steel smashing into another vehicle (or a tree) at eighty miles...

“Don’t laugh at my food and I won’t laugh at your physique!” To say that 46 year old Don High lives a full and complete life would be a massive understatement. Don is married to Debra and has six children: Christopher 20, Nicole 18, Jeremy 16, Brian 14, Nathaniel 12 and Emily age 10. Don resides in the southwest corner of Missouri in a town called Noel and makes his living as a project leader for a large company in Arkansas. He is considered to be an expert in his field and works a lot of hours. He is a...

There’s a lot of talk about “going green” environmentally, but what about nutritionally? By that I mean, filling your plate with plenty of green vegetables, in all types and varieties. When you “go green” with your diet, you give your body a great nutritional harvest. Green vegetables, for example, have long been known to contain antioxidants that combat free radicals (highly reactive chemicals produced in reactions) in cells. Other nutritional attributes of green veggies include the following: Vitamin C. Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, contributes to athletic performance in at least three possible ways – as an antioxidant,...

Halloween was coming soon, which my faithful readers, all four of them, know to be my favorite holiday of the year. I have been a horror fan since around the time I was potty-trained, which was not twelve as some scurrilous malcontents have erroneously suggested, but more like two. Long before I entered kindergarten, I was spending endless hours glued to my TV watching Frankenstein, the Wolfman, Dracula, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and an endless assortment of monsters and ghouls. I could never get enough of Halloween and lived for the one night I could dress up like...