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03 September 2010
A number for former Central Florida high school football players played significant roles for their college teams in Thursday night’s college football games. Click the link below to read JC Carnahan’s (Orlando Sports Central) recap of the following players performances: Kyle Wilber (Apopka/Wake Forest) Ray Ray Armstrong (Seminole/Miami) Chimdi Checkwa (East Ridge/Ohio State) Michael Brewster (Edgewater/Ohio State) Michael Lockley (Olympia/Florida Atlantic) Joe Bailey (Gateway/Florida Atlantic) Alan Gendreau (Orangewood Christian/Middle Tennessee St.) Orlando Sports Central
02 September 2010
I'm not just excited, I'm Richard-Simmons excited!! Great news: I just found out (thanks to several of you astute readers!) that my book is available for pre-order on Amazon ! Woohoooo! I can't even tell you how amazing it feels to write that sentence. This process has taken nearly two years but it's finally happening. And seeing the cover, up there, with all those other real books and real authors made it feel really real. (Ok, so part of me still won't believe it until I'm holding it in my sweaty little hands but I'm visceral like that). Wanna see it? Click here to check me out in all my nerd glory (you can take the girl out of the lab but you can't get her out of the beaker...) and while you're there you can also pre-order The Great Fitness Experiment: One Year of Trying Everything! What you get: If you order right now you get a free shamwow juicer ab roller with every book! Kidding. But you do get it for $10.08. If you wait to buy it until it comes out (pub date is still Dec. 1st from what I understand) then the price will go back up to $14.98. So save 5$ and pre-order now ! In the book I break down all the Experiments I did for the first year of writing this blog. While they are the same Experiments you already read about (if you've been with me that long and boy howdy do I love you for sticking around! Remember when my blog was all black with white text and I was an awkward Goth with orange hair??) but in the book I detail the theory behind each workout, the workout itself, what shenanigans ensued in the gym and all the crazy going on out of the gym along with my conclusions. Bonus: I include either a highlight (hilarious story that never made it into a blog post) or lowlight (hilarious and embarrassing story that never made it into a blog post) of every Experiment, including the absolute lowest moment of my exercise addiction. And no, I never wrote about it on here because I was too ashamed of it at the time. In between each Experiment are personal essays excerpted from this blog that favorites of mine. To all of you who have cheered me on each step of the way, I cannot tell you how much that has meant to me. To all of you have already pre-ordered my book (Hi, mom!) I am amazed and unbelievably grateful. My only goal in this is to sell enough copies that they give me the privilege of writing another book so thank you for helping my dream come true. I could not do it without you guys!!! (Or my exclamation key!!!!!) PS> For those of you wondering what I'm reading these days: Just finished both of Sloane Crosleys books of essays - thanks to those of you who recommended her to me, she's amazing and I totally recommend her! I also recommend Shanghai Girls (fiction) and On Hitler's Mountain (non-fic). I'm currently in the middle of Gary Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories and it is blowing my mind. It is a research junkies dream! What are you reading right now? Got any more recs for me??
02 September 2010
Eustis first-year football coach would have liked to have seen last week how his players reacted to halftime adjustments. How they came out in the third quarter. How they handled the stress and strain of a full 48-minute game. Instead, what he got was an opportunity to see his plays on the field for just about 21 minutes. A storm with heavy lightning forced the stoppage of the preseason Kickoff Classic with Deltona Pine Ridge with just under 3 minutes left in the first half. Now, he leads his team into Friday’s season-opening rivalry against Mount Dora at 7 p.m., with plenty of questions to answer. “Playing a rival is good,” Cannon said. “Everybody wants to get started. Everybody is hyper for the first game. Playing against a rival just adds to it.” Tonight’s games in Lake and Sumter counties: Clermont Eats Ridge at Bushnell South Sumter, 7:30 p.m.; Lake Mary Prep at First Academy-Leesburg, 7 p.m.; Leesburg at Bishop Moore, 7:30 p.m.; Mount Dora Bible at Lakeland Santa Fe, 7 p.m.; Groveland South Lake at Tampa Catholic, 7:30 p.m.; Umatilla at Tavares, 7 p.m.; The Villages at Ocala Lake Weir, 7:30 p.m. and Inverness Citrus at Wildwood, 7:30 p.m.
02 September 2010
Jacksonville Arlington County, which had its five-year streak of boys basketball state championships snapped with a Class 1A final loss to Orlando Christian Prep last season, has withdrawn from the FHSAA. The Florida Times-Union reported that the school was under investigation by the association for multiple rules violations. “This was something we’ve talked about doing for a long time,” ACD boys basketball coach and athletic director Rex Morgan told the Sentinel. “We’ve had good discussions with the FHSAA and we feel like we can co-exist.” OCP coach Reggie Kohn said, “We’re going to miss playing ACD. It was always great competition.”
02 September 2010
Central Florida Prep has forfeited Friday’s schedule football game at Orangewood Christian due to a lack of players. Central Florida Prep, which plays outside the Florida High School Athletic Association but is listed by the association as an approved non-member, has also cancelled an October game with First Academy-Orlando.
02 September 2010
Winter Park will be without junior WR Daniel Ruta for at least four weeks after he broke his collarbone in last week’s 34-17 kickoff classic loss to Olympia. Playing alongside an athletic Winter Park receiving corps that includes junior WR Dvario Montgomery amd seniors Dominique Rouse, Lee Dunnam and Max Chomic , Ruta was apart of a Wildcats’ 7-on-7 squad that won 20 of their final 21 games this summer, including the Premier 7’s event at Disney. “It’s a tough injury, but it was clean and hopefully he won’t be out that long,” Winter Park coach Tim Shifflet said. The Wildcats, ranked No. 5 in the Sentinel Super 16, open their regular season Friday night at Winter Springs.
