| Crossfit Workout Challenge Raises Over $500,000 in Four Hours for ...
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- On Saturday, September 29, over 850 people in 60 cities across the country participated in one of the most grueling workouts ever devised, the Crossfit Fight Gone Bad Challenge to raise money for Athletes for a Cure, an initiative of the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Over 4,000 donors supported the cause by contributing more than $273,000 in pledges and thanks to a matching funds grant from Safeway, the event raised over $546,000 in just four hours. The Crossfit Fight Gone Bad workout consists of five exercises, each completed for one minute with a one minute rest in between sets. The exercises include a medicine ball throw, a deadlift, a box jump, a military press and a rowing machine. The full-body workout is designed to be completed until exhaustion and many professional athletes from the NFL, the NBA and boxing have failed to complete even one set.
Bowl games we'd like to see
Factor in rivalries and regional draws where appropriate. Give fans the bowl games they would love to see, like these 10: BCS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP: LSU vs. Oklahoma The Sooners are far more interesting than The Ohio State University. They feature explosive talent on both sides of the ball. .
Courting Black voters
And we need to be fed,'' she said. The former first lady has tried to remain above the fray most of the week after an unusually rancorous debate Monday in which she and Obama traded barbs. She has criticized President Bush on the stump and rarely mentioned her top rival, leaving Bill Clinton to challenge the Illinois senator more directly. But she has gotten in her digs occasionally. Friday's came as she praised Rangel while implicitly criticizing Obama for being overeager. ''He serves as chair of the most important committee in the United States Congress,'' Clinton said of Rangel. ''He didn't get there by leapfrogging. He got there by lots of hard work.'' While she was courting black voters, Bill Clinton was pitching her candidacy to a crowd of about 200 people Friday in Spartanburg.
Dads ditch offices for quality time
Mark Moran works in Washington and doesn't get home to Howard County until 7:30 p.m. most days. Because of his schedule, he rarely volunteers in the classroom or goes to events at Bellows Spring Elementary School, where his son, Josh, is in third grade.
But on Wednesday, Moran worked from home instead of commuting to his office so that he could take part in a program for fathers called Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students), a national program making its Maryland debut at Bellows Spring in Ellicott City.
Moran and nearly 200 other Bellows Spring fathers, uncles, grandfathers and other men filled rows of fold-out seats in the school cafeteria, munching on pizza and cookies while learning about the program, designed to increase fathers' involvement in schools.
Like it or not, Jose Canseco has got more to say
Back in July 2006, when Jose Canseco was called to meet with the lead investigator in Sen. George Mitchell's inquisition into the steroids scandal in Major League Baseball, Canseco did what Canseco has become almost infamous for doing. He talked. A lot. For more than 2 hours, he talked. In that interview in Fullerton, Calif., Canseco offered up several names of players connected with steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. He told dark tales of players injecting each other with all sorts of illicit substances. He let loose with some conjecture. He explained his place in it all. So when the wildly trumpeted Mitchell Report was finally released last month, and it contained more information from Canseco's searing tell-a-lot book, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits and How Baseball Got Big, than it did his talk with Charles Scheeler, Mitchell's top investigator, Canseco's next move seemed painfully simple to all those around him.
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