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Andrea Martínez didn’t quite realize what she was getting herself into when she tried out to kick extra points for a Mexican college football team. She thought maybe it was a position on a women’s team, or at least there would be other women on the roster. But when she won the spot, Martínez was told she would become the first woman to play college football among men in the country’s top amateur division. “At first one did not dimension it well because I did not even fully understand that I was going to be the first woman,” Martínez admitted...

Woke Vanderbilt to continue with Sarah Fuller KICKING STUNT because WINNING DOESN'T MATTER! Video at link

A man suspected in a downtown beating that left a man bloody and unconscious in the street after he crashed a truck during a confrontation that unfolded near a downtown Portland demonstration is now in custody. Marquise Love, 25, turned himself in and was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on Friday morning, according to Portland police. He’s accused of felony assault, coercion and rioting and is being held on $260,000 bail.

Portland police have arrested the 25-year-old accused of viciously attacking a truck driver who was seen on video being violently beaten, jail records show. Marquise Lee Love was booked in the Multnomah County Detention Center on Friday shortly after 5:30 a.m. local time, according to jail records. He was charged with assault, coercion and riot, all three of which are felonies, records show.

Remember kids, tattoos are permanent. When the New England Patriots drafted Marshall kicker Justin Rohrwasser, there was a controversy over one of his tattoos and speculation it meant he supported a far-right militia group, the Three Percenters.

Nicknamed “Stumpy’’ by teammates, Dempsey seemed an unlikely football hero. He was born without fingers on his right hand or toes on his right foot. He wore a small, flat shoe on his kicking foot that is now on display at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. As a rookie in 1969, Dempsey delivered an All-Pro season but was cut by the Saints in 1971 after missing seven of eight kicks during preseason, which he attributed to falling out of shape while being treated to countless drinks and meals after his historic kick. But he rebounded and played for several...

At an age when many start thinking about retirement, Alan Moore is restarting his football career. Moore, a 61 year-old Vietnam veteran, will kick this fall for Faulkner University, a small Christian school in Montgomery, Ala., 43 years after his initial college career was cut short by Vietnam. When he takes the field against Ave Maria on Sept. 10, Moore will be the oldest player ever to take the field for a four-year university.

So I recently read Gary Wolf's The Kicker of St. John's Wood, and was very impressed. The story revolves around Jayesh Blackstone, a kicker in the NFL, and his struggle to preserve the last shred of American dignity; all the while being hounded by the UN and the FBI. The liberal ideals of radical feminism, forced diversity, racism, and rampant political correctness, are all enforced under under the guise of equality, which inevitably lead to coercion, thought control, suppression and domination. In this all too real future, those who don't conform are in danger of losing everything. You can read...

"Mario Danelo, a kicker for the USC football team, was found dead Saturday in San Pedro, Calif. Danelo's body was found at the bottom of White Point Cliff in San Pedro, according for a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department. Police did not release further details. "

Former NFL kicker pleads guilty to shooting Siegfried & Roy houseBy KEN RITTER, Associated Press Writer May 11, 2006 LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Former Raiders kicker Cole Ford, who has been hospitalized for mental illness, pleaded guilty Thursday to shooting at the home of entertainers Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn in 2004. Ford, who last kicked for Oakland in 1997, agreed to a felony plea that could result in a suspended sentence of one to six years in a Nevada prison if he continues mental-health treatment at a center near his family's home in Tucson, Ariz. "We've come a long...

Business Unfriendly From the Oregonian today... "Gov. Kulongoski has eye on corporate tax kicker Rebate - Business leaders will consider plans to pump cash from the $205 million tax break back to the state" Again, government, and in this case, the governor, wants to steal $205 Million dollars of corporate tax surpluses, to fund myriad of dreamt up State programs. Oregon law requires that any surpluses over 2% be returned to the taxpayers…now the governor is eying the corporate portion of the excess to fund his liberal agenda. What bothers me most is that the law is part of the...

RICHMOND, Va. - A federal appeals court on Tuesday awarded $350,000 in attorney's fees to a former Duke University woman football kicker who had won a $2 million judgment from the school and then lost it on appeal. Heather Sue Mercer in 2000 won $2 million in a sex-discrimination case against the school, claiming she was cut from Duke's football team because she was a woman. Duke argued on appeal that sex discrimination law does not include punitive damages, and in 2002 the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, leaving Mercer with just $1 in compensatory damages. The 4th...