College Football’s Most Famous Family: Tommy Bowden on “Winning Character”

Carl Foster
1 Jun 2015
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Tommy Bowden

Tommy Bowden coached for 32 years in college football, and in his first head coaching job at Tulane University in 1997, he lead his team to an undefeated season, a Conference USA Championship and a Liberty Bowl win. Bowden was named Conference USA Coach of the Year. In 1999, Bowden took over the head coaching position at Clemson University. He was named ACC Coach of the year in 1999 and 2003 and in 2006 received the Fellowship of Christian Athletes Coach of the Year Award. In 2003, Bowden defeated two coaches that had already earned 200 career wins to become […]

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Bobby Bowden: The Wisdom of Faith

Carl Foster
7 Oct 2014
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Bobby Bowden is the winningest coach in the history of Division I college football. Over the last 20 years no program has a higher winning percentage than Florida State University. Bowden became the first coach in college football history to lead his team to 26 straight Bowl Games. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame December 5, 2006, while still actively coaching. The patriarch of college football’s most famous coaching family, Bowden remains heavily involved in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) annually awarding The National Bobby Bowden Award to a student-athlete for achievement on and off […]

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Annual Celebrity Golf and Tennis Classic Benefits FCA

Carl Foster
11 Sep 2014
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Gold Coast Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) announced that Wally Armstrong, a PGA touring pro and best-selling author, and Michael Blank, a former NFL player and NCAA Auburn National Champion, will headline the 8th Annual FCA Celebrity Golf and Tennis Classic, September 28 and 29 at the Coral Ridge Country Club in Fort Lauderdale. FCA’s Mission The mission of FCA is to impact coaches and athletes with the challenge and adventure of receiving Jesus Christ as their Savior and serving Him in their relationships in the church. Athletes who fully surrender themselves to the Lord—going “All in”— stay focused and […]

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Match Point Ministries Serving Up Aces

Carl Foster
8 Mar 2014
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Serving up aces for the Kingdom, Match Point Ministries (MPM), Inc., uses tennis to influence players, coaches and parents for Jesus Christ with their Spiritually Tough Tennis Camps, community events, and various media programs presented in their 6th Annual Spiritually Tough Tennis Awards February 15, 2014, during the Delray Beach Open professional ATP Tour event. Former Top 10 female professional tennis player, Brenda Schultz McCarthy, who holds the world record as the fastest server in WTA history, received the Community Service Award; former USPTA Pro of the Year, Tennis Channel commentator, and creator of the “Modern Tennis” teaching program earned […]

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Offerdahl Headlines YMCA April Event

Carl Foster
3 Mar 2014
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The YMCA of South Palm Beach County will be staging their largest fundraising event, the annual YMCA Inspiration Breakfast on Tuesday, April 8 from 8am to 10am. The 12th annual breakfast, hosted at the Boca Raton Resort & Club, will help raise funds for the YMCA’s financial assistance program which provides everyone, regardless of income, the ability to participate in their programs. The event will gather business and community leaders for a breakfast of inspiration and motivation with a special keynote speech from former professional football player of the Miami Dolphins and owner of Offerdahl’s Café Grill, John Offerdahl. CBS […]

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World Leaders Conference Returns to South Florida

Carl Foster
4 Feb 2014
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The World LEADERS Group will be featuring an award-winning actor, a news anchor from the BBC, a Pulitzer Prize winner, several best-selling authors, and some of the world’s most prominent business and church thought leaders will teaming up to talk servant leadership, headlining an impressive line-up of speakers for the third annual World LEADERS Conference on March 5–6, 2014. The conference will offer participants a rare opportunity to be in the same room with, and learn from, outstanding presenters, including: Martin Sheen, Award-winning actor and political activist. Ken Blanchard, Chairman of the Ken Blanchard Companies, co-founder of Lead Like Jesus, […]

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Delray Beach Open

Carl Foster
9 Jan 2014
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Starting back in 1993 as the Red Clay Championships in Plantation, Florida, the Delray Beach Open is the only event in the world to host the ATP Champions Tour event and the ATP World Tour event in the same venue the same week February 14-23, 2014. Mark Baron, tournament founder and director, has made changes to the structure of its five-year-old ATP Champions Tour event, rebranding it as the ATP Champions Cup and adopting a format similar to the Davis Cup competition. Featuring former world No. 1 Andy Roddick among a field of six players, the event will be held […]

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Addicted?: Now is the Time to Change

Carl Foster
8 Jan 2014
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With the New Year upon us, it is a great time to reflect on changing and improving our lives. For many people, improving negative behaviors, overcoming internal struggles and being more positive can be somewhat attainable goals. But what if you struggle with all of the above along with some sort of addiction? For many people struggling with addiction, the biggest and toughest step toward recovery is the very first one: deciding to make a change. Change is never easy – and committing to sobriety involves making necessary changes that can be a difficult to do alone. One organization in […]

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Caddy For A Cure

Carl Foster
4 Dec 2013
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It started out as another normal day at the golf course back in 1993 for PGA Professional Russ Holden, who was still pursuing a dream of one day playing on tour as he worked at Woodfield Country Club in Boca Raton, Florida, as the head golf teaching professional. Chris Collins, a former Major League Baseball pitcher for the California Angels, who had recently undergone double Tommy John arm surgery ending his pitching career, stopped in to ask Holden if he knew of any jobs in the golf industry. He said he didn’t need much money but just wanted to start […]

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Way-FM Celebrates 20 Years in South Florida

Carl Foster
7 Nov 2013
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In 1987, Way-FM founder Bob Augsburg and his wife Felice took a leap of faith and set out to start a new kind of Christian radio station; one that would both encourage Christians in their walk and also introduce non-believers to Christ. The early years of WAY-FM Augsburg started out as a morning show host in Fort Myers, Florida on top rated WSOR Christian Life Radio station. At that time, WSOR was formatted to reach adult Christians 35 years old and up. Augsburg began to realize that the younger generation needed a Christian station to call their own, so he […]

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