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The Hershey Bears celebrate the first goal of the game as teddy bears fly by.
Ever seen 25,000 teddy bears fly through the air simultaneously? You will now with this fun video.
I’m not a follower of ice hockey, so I didn’t even know about the tradition of annual Teddy Bear Tosses for charity. At these designated December hockey games, attendees vault stuffed teddy bears into the rink when their team scores its first goal. Watching the spectacle of it is great fun, and the event is a great idea because all of the bears are collected and given to charity.
I can’t wait until my kids get home from school so I can show them these great videos of two recent Teddy Bear Tosses: Continue reading »
Michelle Obama booed at NASCAR this weekend.
First Lady Michelle Obama was booed in Florida this weekend, as she helped kick off the final race of the NASCAR season.
Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden were attending the Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, serving as grand marshals and even starting the race, to help bring recognition to our nation’s military families.
Attendees of the event have said after the fact that those shouting down the First Lady were very few, while the great majority of the crowd cheered and welcomed her participation. NASCAR officials have also argued that they were extremely happy to have her and Jill Biden there to support military families as part of the race celebration.
ABC News blogger Z. Byron Wolf opined, “It is certainly not clear that most or even a lot of the 65,000 fans at the Homestead-Miami Speedway booed. Microphones placed for TV coverage can confuse things. And people who were present at the event did not report that booing was evident to fans in the stands.” Still, if you listen the videos you can certainly hear it.
Joe Paterno will retire from coaching Penn State football.
On Monday, we told you all about the terrible child molestation scandal at Penn State involving the university’s former coach Jerry Sandusky. We asked out loud why legendary coach Joe Paterno didn’t do more to make sure the proper authorities were aware of allegations by a witness to one of the incidents, aside from informing the chain of command.
We weren’t the only ones asking and as of this morning USA Today is reporting that Joe Pa, as he is affectionately known, has decided to retire at the end of the season.
Sports columnists and fans alike have started to question the leadership at Penn State for not doing more to protect the health and safety of the boys who were allegedly harmed by Jerry Sandusky. (To learn more about the scandal, click here.) While discussions were had about Sandusky’s alleged behavior, no one at Penn State ever called the police, including Joe Paterno.
ABC News says that while the university’s board of trustees was holding an emergency meeting last night on how to deal with the scandal, students rallied outside Paterno’s house, chanting his name in support. He spoke to the crowd briefly and thanked them.
Penn State is caught in the middle of a former coach's child abuse scandal.
A major child abuse scandal broke this week at Penn State University that has students and parents reeling. As former Nittany Lions football coordinator Jerry Sandusky is released on bail, two more of the college’s officials will be arraigned today for covering up his alleged abuse of several boys in their early teens.
One would hope that when you send your kids to college you can at least feel safe that they are going to a good place with responsible adults who will look out for the best interests of children of all ages, but that may not be so in this case.
Penn State’s football team’s former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky has been indicted for inappropriate touching and rape of eight boys over a 15-year period. Sandusky met the boys involved through a charity he founded for at-risk youth called The Second Mile.
Some of the assaults reportedly took place on campus in a Penn State athletics building. When an eyewitness reported one such incident to Nittany Lions head coach Joe Paterno, Paterno immediately took the information to the school’s athletic director Tim Curley and senior vice president for business and finance, Gary Schultz. Both Curley and Schultz failed to contact police or any other authorities after receiving the eyewitness report, and when they were questioned by a grand jury investigating Sandusky, their testimonies were “not deemed credible,” says FOX News.
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Josh Hamilton and Cooper Stone embrace for the first time.
This summer, little Cooper Stone watched as his father fell to his death at Texas Stadium, a special father-and-son afternoon turning into unimaginable tragedy for an only child who loved watching Rangers baseball with his dad.
Shannon Stone, a Texas firefighter, reached to catch a foul ball tossed into the crowd by Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton, Cooper’s favorite player, and accidentally went over the railing, falling 20 feet to his death.
This weekend, Cooper, who is six years old, threw out the first pitch at the Rangers’ first playoff game against Tampa Bay. The pitch was thrown to him by Josh Hamilton, the same player whose tossed ball led unexpectedly to death. According to the Huffington Post, this was the first time Hamilton met Cooper and his mother Jenny in person. He fully embraced both after the pitch.
While trying to catch the high flying foul ball, the dad flung his toddler (who looked to be about two or three years-old) aside. The young child fell into the seats in front of them while her father extended his arms to try to grab the ball in question. And he didn’t even catch it! Fortunately for all those involved, the child seemed unharmed by the event.
This isn’t the first time this has happened. Just six months ago, right here in the states a dad dropped his kid at a Dodgers game to try to get his chance at a baseball souvenir. Check out the newest case of baseball crazed dads right here: Continue reading »
My small dude might have been born with a baseball in his hand. He’s been able to hit a pitched ball since he was three. He sleeps with his glove on his hand. Did I mention he is five? Baseball trumps just about everything in our family. At least for the men on my husband’s side. So, it is with equal parts awe and terror that I watch the brouhaha surrounding the Little League World Series.
The first Little League game was played on June 6, 1939. The Little League World Series is in its 65th year. Its magic… its history is legendary. Each year it is watched by thousands, both in person and live on television. The Series begins soon, on August 18th. More than 450 teams compete.
These are 11 and 12 year olds. Their every move will be showcased on ESPN. Is this the perfect platform to allow them to play college ball – or maybe chase that Major League dream? Or is the close-up on teary-eyed pitcher who gave up the game-winning homerun just too much?
Joslyn Gray 
Amber Doty 
Julianna Miner 
Monica Bielanko 
Sierra Black 
Meredith Carroll 
Carolyn Castiglia 
Sunny Chanel 
Madeline Holler 
Wendy Michaels 
Rebecca Odes 
Danielle Smith 
Danielle Sullivan 
Katherine Stone 
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