Maybe you’ve heard that the governor and his wife are going through a divorce. And the two sides have asked for, and the judge had sealed, the paperwork. This is unusual in Alabama, and not especially a good thing considering the details. Bob Sims, who is the editor of The Anniston Star, discusses those details, right here:
It was a peculiar set of now-remedied circumstances.
Newspaper tonight, 3,000 yard swim and a 3.1 mile run, too. And in between, these scary things:
Just in time for you to not buy them for Halloween. The Star Wars licensing people are getting a little loose with their standards. The Yoda doesn’t even stand up on its own.
It is going to be a long slog through merchandise until the movie is released in December, isn’t it?
To stand on a field in the uniform of her country as the national anthem plays requires a long journey. And not just because of the flights involved.
“It’s just my family and everything that I’ve gone through to get to that point,” Seoposenwe said of her thoughts in those moments. “How hard it was getting into the national team. Just going from not wanting to play with women, or girls, to now stepping onto a field with girls that are so talented and so good at what they do.”
It was one of those rides where you do a few things surprising, while not doing other things. This is not a disappointment. You huff a little, you sweat a little. You might think it is a bit late in the year for that sort of thing, but you see that sun sinking and you realize you notice that it is falling earlier. And that you noticed that is important, because you know you’ll soon wish for more days when it was warm like that, and you had scenes like this:
Lantz has raised more than $100,000 for charities over the course of his 13 IRONMAN races, but his focus isn’t just on the money. “I always pick a person who needs added inspiration in their life to go with me on the race,” he explains. He laminates a small picture of the person to carry with him on the course, proudly holds the picture up in his own finisher photo, and then gets a keepsake from the race to give to the person. “I want them to have something to remind them of their worth in the eyes of God, and my love for them,” says Lantz.
One such person was Josh Lucio, a boy with NF1 (neurofibromatosis Type 1) from Mesa, Ariz. “What Josh has had to endure is far more challenging than doing an IRONMAN,” says Lantz. “Despite his severe scoliosis and having tumors around his heart, he is a positive human being and a warrior. If I was able to play a small part in helping him stay focused and healthy, then I’ve used my IRONMAN journey to bless another.”
Lantz raced for Josh at IRONMAN Lake Tahoe, struggling to make it over the finish line before the 17-hour cutoff. “I had to finish for Josh at all costs,” Lantz recalls. “He watched me cross the line from his house.”
Allow me to make you rethink the entire second half of your 1997.
Face/Off came out in June of that year. And now I’m going to shake it all up. What if they were miscast? What if Travolta was originally Castor Troy and Cage was FBI agent Sean Archer, and they switched?
In the inevitable remake, I vote for Robert Pattinson versus Taylor Lautner.
Podcasts! Here are two of them. First, looking around the SEC.
And, second, trying to unwrap the Auburn enigma while looking at foreboding statistics:
Chadd there was my first radio mentor. Great guy. Learned a lot from him. Still do.
And, now, scenes from an all-important, utterly inconsequential and I hope never elusive 20-mile bike ride.
I have some history on this road, I realized, as I pedaled down it today. And not just because I’ve made tiny circles with my feet on it before. I’ve raced on it. I have friends that grew up on this road. I re-learned to run on the path that meanders alongside it. I’ve been caught in the rain on this road and failed to outrun hail on this road. I have history on that little ribbon of asphalt, pretty neat.
To be sure, I do spend a lot of my time on this road with this view:
On a different road. Same ride, different light:
What was going on on the other side of the camera at that same moment:
And now, for two podcasts. If you like Arkansas:
And if you prefer your football to be full of Gator bites:
Some other stuff here and there. Mostly, though, that road, and this weekend.
