RENEGADES WIN 4TH STRAIGHT GAME, COLONIALS HAVE A TOUGH NIGHT

The Richmond Renegades won there 4th straight game last night defeating the Columbus Cottonmouths 4-2 in front of 3,800 Renegade fans.  The Gades will face Columbus again tonight at the Coliseum looking for there 5h straight win.  In high school basketball action last night the CH girls team lost to the #2 in the area Atlee 74-28, it doesn't get any easier for them tonight when they face another very highly ranked team in the area Highland Springs.  The CH boys team lost to Trinity last night 56-42, they will play again tonight as well.  In high school football action today the Dinwiddie Generals will be playing for the state championship against powerhouse Phoebus, the Phantoms are 7th in country.  Today in college football action the East Carolina Pirates will be looking to win the CUSA football championship when it travels to Tulsa to play the Golden Hurricanes.  Also today in I-AA playoffs the Richmond Spiders will be playing the Appalachian State Mountaineers at APPY STATE and the JMU Dukes will be at home against the Villanova Wildcats.  Well I have to go wrap some more presents.  MICKEY

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Anthony Robbins

If you believe even when you cannot see, your reward will be one which you cannot imagine.

Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.

The worst thing you can do when it comes to weight management during the holidays? Give into all-or-nothing thinking and keep making bad choices once you've made a mistake or two. Never throw in the towel just because of a few slip-ups!

Quality effort
If you're spending your time doing it, then it's important enough to do it right. A quality life is built through quality effort.
Put yourself fully in to every effort, whatever that effort may be. Even the seemingly trivial chores can set the stage for greatness when you put your love, attention and commitment into them.

Put yourself fully into every moment, whatever you may be doing. For each moment comes with its own unique opportunities.

Success depends just as much on the quality of your efforts as it does on the quantity and nature of those efforts. When you consistently put quality and commitment into what you do, then whatever you do will create real, lasting value.

Every moment, then, is a chance to move forward. Every effort, no matter how mundane or tedious it may first appear, can be a crucial step on the path to greatness.

Put your best into every effort. And all those efforts, the big ones and the small ones, will lift your life ever higher.
-- Ralph Marston

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