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Despite what a certain [url=http://www.byron-harvey.com/]overly opinionated pastor[/url] (and best friend) may think, Va Tech yesterday proved yet again who the real football power is in the state of Virginia. Go Hokies!

Va. Tech a Victory Away From ACC Title

[quote]BLACKSBURG, Va. - Bryan Randall is wrapping up his college career in style, putting Virginia Tech on the verge of an unexpected championship. Randall threw two second-half touchdown passes, and the 11th-ranked Hokies moved one victory from an Atlantic Coast Conference title with a 24-10 victory over No. 16 Virginia on Saturday.

“The stakes just keep getting bigger,” Randall said after leading the Hokies to their seventh consecutive win and ninth in 10 games.

The Hokies (9-2, 6-1) can win the league title — and a Bowl Championship Series berth — by winning next week at No. 9 Miami, the team that moved from the Big East to the ACC with Virginia Tech this season.

“To do down to Miami and get a win and the whole championship outright by ourselves in the first year, it would be phenomenal,” Randall said.

“It would mean a lot to our whole team, the coaches, the program,” said Randall, one of 19 seniors honored Saturday. “It would make people respect us. I think we’ve gained a lot of respect for what we’ve done.”

The Hokies, picked to finish as low as eighth in the ACC this year, have done it by returning to the style of football that lifted them into the national elite a decade ago, using hard-nosed defense, big-play special teams and an efficient offense to wear down their opponents.

And that senior quarterback has been a big part of it, too, mentoring a young receiving corps and playing the best football of his career.

“He plays his best when things look the worst,” coach Frank Beamer said. “There’s just something special about this kid. What a player.”

Randall finished 16-for-22 for 200 yards, and passed Don Strock to become the career yardage leader at Virginia Tech.

Strock ended his career with 6,009; Randall now has 6,061.

He eclipsed Strock with a 12-yard pass to Jeff King on second-and-12 with 10 minutes left.

Randall celebrated on the next play, finding Josh Hyman against Tony Franklin for the second time, this one for 32 yards and a 17-10 lead.

“I wanted to throw it up there and give Hyman a chance,” Randall said of the 5-foot-11 redshirt freshman, who stopped as Franklin ran by, then beat him to the end zone. “He made a play, just like on the other ball.”

Earlier, Randall and Hyman teamed on a 45-yard scoring pass. [/quote]

Insight for Leaders

“What a gracious thing for us that Jesus Christ never thinks about what we have been! He always thinks about what we are going to be. You and I are slaves to time and space and records and reputations and publicity and the past-all that we call the case history. Jesus Christ cares absolutely nothing about anyone’s moral case history. He forgives it and starts from there as though the person had been born one minute before.” Faith Beyond Reason, 103-104.

Another review of a truly amazing CD. There is one quote from Bono in this review that really struck me:
[quote]Bono said: “I don’t talk about my faith very much, because the people you might want to talk with, you don’t want to hang out with.[/quote]

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This just in….

Business Leaders Give Thanks for Suckers

[quote]NEW YORK — Number crunching and money-grubbing self pursuits came to a lull for 10 minutes Monday as business leaders throughout the world reminisced momentarily in a pre-Thanksgiving spirit and gave thanks for the millions of suckers and inept consumers in the nation whom they profited off of by more than $200 billion in the past year.

Business leaders give thanks for suckers.“Bob down in marketing said, ‘I think we ought to take a moment of silence’,” said William Spear, CEO of a fortune-500 company. “So the boys and I bowed our heads and considered the caviar and chardonnay we would’ve had to do without if so many people didn’t buy as much crap as they did.”[/quote] Read the rest of this entry »