by admin | Aug 11, 2022 | Staff, Month 6, One 2 Won Staff Guide
Craftsmanship Pre-Game Warm-Up The winter of 1494 was memorable for its bitter cold. The city of Florence, Italy, was blanketed in snow, and Michelangelo Buonarroti’s heart was as heavy as the gray clouds that dipped low and blocked out the sun. The Grand Duke of...
by admin | Aug 11, 2022 | Staff, Month 7, One 2 Won Staff Guide
Peacemaker Pre-Game Warm-Up If there were a Heisman Trophy for high school football in Pennsylvania, it would go to Jim Shaughhessy. At least in football savvy Oil Trough, Pennsylvania where “Jim Shaughhessy Day” was celebrated annually for years. If a player can...
by admin | Aug 11, 2022 | Staff, Month 7, One 2 Won Staff Guide
Synergy Pre-Game Warm-Up You don’t expect to see a lovebird standing 6’3” tall with rippling muscles on every bone of his body and weighing 215 pounds donate vital body parts to his wife, but this love story isn’t ordinary in any sense of the word. My big brother,...
by admin | Aug 11, 2022 | Staff, Month 7, One 2 Won Staff Guide
No Bad Days Pre-Game Warm-Up Difficult days? Plenty – that’s inevitable. Challenging days? Countless – that‘s a factor. Laborious days? Limitless – that’s a condition. Bad days? Banished – that’s a choice. On March 15th, 1999, every parent’s worst fear came true for...
by admin | Aug 11, 2022 | Staff, Month 8, One 2 Won Staff Guide
Majesty Pre-Game Warm-Up Cairo, Egypt, a place where, even in recent years, Christians have been scoffed, mocked and even martyred, isn’t perhaps the place you’d picture some of the sweetest, most intimate multinational worship ever offered up to the God of Isaac,...
by admin | Aug 11, 2022 | Staff, Month 8, One 2 Won Staff Guide
Faith Works Pre-Game Warm-Up My dad was a man’s man. He taught hand-to-hand combat in WWII. He could work Superman into the ground. But the tenderness with which he honored my mom was his greatest sermon. At age 75, he kayaked the Grand Canyon for 261 miles and...
