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Christian's Under Attack

Title: Christians under attack Injustice is all over this world.   I’ll never forget my South American friend Alex (mid 1990s) saying, “ Adrian , you Americans do not understand my world.   In my country I watched a man stealing a loaf of bread running across the street.   The police pulled up and gunned him down and then drove off leaving his body in the street.”   He said in an intense voice, “In my country you don’t call the police.”   Another time he said, “ Adrian , you Americans don’t understand poverty.   When you open your front door and a kid is peeing there because he spent the night sleeping in your doorway, you begin to understand.”   Of all the injustices in the world, lately it seems on Facebook, American Christians are a huge problem.   So I will attempt to rebut the wave of verbal attacks on our attempt to live out the literal Word of God and be godly in this dark, evil, and godless world.   I will attempt to do so without the ever popular attacking the other side
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The Ice Trash Can Challenge and Track

Title: The Ice Trash Can Challenge and Track I was sitting in my mandatory New York State coaching class years ago when the venerable old teacher asked what we thought which sport caused the most injuries in Section V.   Someone said, “Football,” which is what popped into my mind and if that hadn’t won the prize you’d think “Lacrosse would be a contender!”   Let’s think about this for a minute.   You have boys that weight-lift year round and weigh over 200 lbs trying to run through each other to smash some 160 lb soaking wet kid into the ground!   To help with this they practice attacking pieces of equipment, throwing their body into it as hard as they can.   Or they send a football down to the other end of the field and unleash a bunch of huge guys to tackle the skinny kid attempting to run the ball to a large safe zone where no one will hurt him!   If only he can make it there!   Then you have grown adults screaming either for the army of hulks to level that skinny kid or for
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The Ferd Stenta Invitational

Title: Ferd Stenta Invitational Part I When we first arrived at the invitational, it was a comfortable afternoon, with the sun peeking out.   Huge groups of teenagers with different uniforms on were warming up together and relay boys and girls were passing batons preparing for upcoming events.   The weather report looked grim but you couldn’t tell at the moment.   Autumn was putting her poles under a tent the home school had provided, when a brief driving rain hit!   Student athletes scattered everywhere, heading for their tents or cover.   A coach near the pole vault ran out to start covering the pit and I followed.   It was the weather’s shot across the bow.   By the national anthem the rain was gone but so were the warm temperatures.   A brutal wind began and temperatures started to drop.   By the end of the night snow would be in the air, swirling around.   How bad was the wind.   It was bad.   In pole vault the wind was going right at the bar full force, forcing two me
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The Campbell-Savona Meet Part III

Title: The Campbell-Savona Meet Part III Reese Draper has been a MAJOR force in the league this year!   He’s number two in D for High Jump and only drops to eighth place when you add in two more classes (C and CC)!   He’s seventh in D in triple jump and eighth in D for long jump.   On Tuesday night Reese brought this skill level into the meet and walked away a triple winner in high jump, triple jump, and long jump!   Quincy Cornell threw a forty the first meet and told me, “I hope that wasn’t a fluke.”   It must not have been because he nailed a 39 the other night!   Quincy is top five in Class D for shot and twelfth place when you add in Class C and CC.   You have to understand that in D, C, and CC represent 56 schools and they will list every athlete you have!   Quincy won the meet for shot and we swept the rest of the shot event!   Caleb Hulbert has been a rock in this event the last two years!   Caleb is eighth place in D and usually comes in second but he was out thr
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The Campbell-Savona Meet Part II

Title: The Campbell-Savona Meet Part II Pole vault pits are not universal and standards can move depending on the “zero” point.   While I was measuring and checking things out, having the boys start to warm up, Pink walked past the pit headed for the line.   The nice thing about CS pole vault pit is it is near the line and I can sort of keep track of what is going on.   A mystery Arkport girl was facing Pink in the 1500, but how good was she?   I had no idea.   The gun sounded and Pink went to work, while I got pole vault off the ground (no pun intended:)   A distance race like that takes a fair amount of time but when your running an event you only get to see flashes of it.   I nervously watched the girl following Pink, while Brock got over 7’.   Pink won handily.   Poor Hunter Heck would have to vault soon and I told him so as he began to walk away from the mile.   “But I have to go to the bathroom,” he complained.   “Bud, the bar will keep going up.   Get your vaults
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