Category: Sports

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Scary Times in Sports

When my brother was in high school, he was adamant that he wanted to join the football team. My parents were very worried about that. (Keep in mind, this was back in the early 1970’s.) They had heard in recent years how sometimes an athelete that seems to be in perfect health sometimes suffers a massive cardiac arrest in the middle of the field, and dies before ever making it to the hospital! Sure, the schools insisted on each of the kids getting a medical clearance before playing, but at that point in time, they did not even do any kind of diagnostic testing to make sure that the kids did not have any weird heart conditions that had been overlooked by previous physicals.

Times certainly have changed since then! There are entire businesses, such as Wimbledon Heath Partners, that are dedicated to sports medicine. Not just how to fix injuries once they happen, but to run tests to make sure that weird genetic conditions don’t raise their ugly heads in the middle of practice, or a competition. Sports medicine has come a very long way. I am interested to keep seeing whatever happens in the near future regarding American football and concussions. I know that new helmets have been designed, but I have a feeling that American football might just start suffer from this very serious hazard. I think that fewer parents will be giving permission for their kids to play it in school, and that will eventually lead to fewer professionals down the road.

As for my brother, well, he did join the football team, but he came down with mono during the school year, and ended up benched for most of the football season. That broke his heart, but I think that my parents were secretly relieved that he did not spend a lot of time on the field!

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Golf clubs for my birthday

Not being an avid golfer but being an interested fan, my best friend wants to take me to get new golf clubs. She highly recommends I’ll get good ones and I know she’s serious when she just practices in 101 degree weather! This woman is good and knows her equipment for the game.

Getting a set of clubs to me is a intimidating, but my life long friend told me that where we are going to get even hybrid golf clubs, is going to be fantastic and an adventurer, we can’t go wrong with going where the quality, value and also professionals are. Big plus to me, since I’m a brand new beginner and have no idea what I’m doing, but am willing to learn.

I feel by the end of the summer I may learn about the game and it will be fun plus great exercise. I may like this!

 

 

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School day count down

Getting ready for my youngest son to go to school has been a bit bittersweet. He is my last child in school now and it seems like yesterday when all three of my kids were getting on the bus at the same time and going to school together.

We’ve brought most of his school clothes and supplies, which actually weren’t a whole lot because since he is in high school, he doesn’t want a whole bunch of new clothes. Why, I don’t know. I’m sure I’ll be buying the kind of shirts he likes when I see them in passing or if I see them online.

He did pick out some really well made and nice looking shoes online at his favorite shoe place, at a reasonable price. They should last him awhile if he doesn’t do his favorite past times, like skate boarding and BMX bike riding in them. I’ve never seen such sports that tear shoes apart like that does.

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Organization with enclosed cork bulletin boards

My daughter and son wanted to have a place for all their school accomplishments and had been just hanging things on thier bedroom wall, but to me it looked very cluttered and unorganized, so when I have been looking into getting them enclosed cork bulletin boards somewhat like the ones that they have in school, to keep all their medals and achievements organized.

My son didn’t mind the plain bulletin boards, but my daughter preferred something a bit more fancy. I showed her some enclosed fabric bulletin boards and she liked them a lot. They are bigger than what I had really wanted, but then after I thought about it, and looked at all of just the things they have from high school, I think that they are going to work really well for what they want to put in them.

I had at first told them that they both should just put a years worth of special awards, photos, and medals in the enclosed bulletin boards, but then it’s their room and clutter, so it will be up to them to organize the items and  put them in the way they want to. I can always give them the bulletin boards of they decide to “leave the nest” on down the line.

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Hockey Game

Saturday we are taking my Grandson David to a hockey game he really loves the Predators and has been to several games with us in the past. This will be his first game this year and I know that he is really excited to be going back to a game. He plays hockey at our house, we bought him a cut down stick and some pucks, he has a blast and gets the dogs involved in his game. I love to see him having fun with the dogs and playing hockey it is all very new to him, being an only child he does not have much of any one to play with and it must be very boring to him. But he will have fun Saturday and I can not wait for the game.

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Hockey

Hockey is really my favorite sport and I love going to the games when the Predators are here in town. They are on a west coast swing right now and will play the next six games away from Nashville. When they get back to town I plan to attend a few games in the month of November, I miss the friends we made in our old section and it would be real nice to see them again. We even have made friends with some of the ushers and when we see these people out on the town we have friends we never knew about it is kind of funny.