Mayo Positive for EPO

I am officially disgusted with professional cycling.  Today’s news is that Spanish rider Iban Mayo tested positive for EPO during the final week of the Tour de France. Doping allegations and suspicions have devastated the 2007 Tour, which ended Sunday, withn three riders, including former overall leader Michael Rasmussen, and two teams were expelled during [...]

Coaching Legend Bill Walsh Dead at 75

One of my heroes died today. I am sad to see that Bill Walsh, the groundbreaking football coach who won three Super Bowls and perfected “the West Coast offense” during a Hall of Fame career with the San Francisco 49ers, has died. He was 75. Walsh died early Monday following a long battle [...]

Check out our First YouTube Video: Baptism 2007

Park is now officially a YouTube broadcaster! Check out the musical slideshow of the awesome baptisms of 71 people on the beaches of Lake Michigan in the shadow the the awesome Chicago skyline from Sunday, July 22nd.

I Share His Feelings

The Summit (CO) Daily New (Devon O’Neil) sums up my feelings on the Tour de Farce:

In parting, just to take stock: We’ve got an entire sport (cycling) teetering on collapse yet again, we’ve got a superstar NFL quarterback charged with killing animals for money, we’ve got an NBA referee facing a game-fixing probe, and the [...]

Tour de Farce: Rasmussen Out — What the Heck is Going On?

Tour de Farce leader Michael Rasmussen was removed from the race by his team after winning Wednesday’s stage, the biggest blow yet in cycling’s doping-tainted premier event. “Michael Rasmussen has been sent home for violating (the team’s) internal rules,” Rabobank team spokesman Jacob Bergsma told The Associated Press by phone.The expulsion, which Bergsma said was [...]

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Are you flying around all week at work and would rather have any new posts from 20 Million Minutes sent directly to you by email or RSS? After a number of requests, we have now added both of those options to the 20 Million Minutes blog! All of our feeds have been migrated to Feedburner, [...]

Can It Happen Again? Say It Ain’t So!

What a debacle AGAIN! After he bonked then showed the world he could grit his teeth, and win a tough mountain stage, Alexander Vinokourov was found guilty of blood doping.  This disgusts me….I really thought this would be a clean ride this year but again my legs are whacked out from beneath me.
In a [...]

Shades of Landis: Vino Rocks!

In a scene reminsicent of Floyd Landis last year when he bonked, then experienced the “Greatest One Day Ride in the History of the Tour de France“, Alexander Vinokourov of Astana clinched his second victory of this year’s Tour de France with panache when he won the 196-km 15th stage from Foix [...]

World Class Barbecue

Joe Riccardi, Emily Luikart, Megan Kosar, Alisha Rylander, Laura Shunta, and their team organized a world-class barbecue that would make all of Texas proud! For our annual Baptism celebration, we had beef barbecue and pulled pork from the hottest new barbecue joint in the city, Smoque, located at 3800 N Pulaski in the great [...]

Baptism Sunday — What a Day!

Each year, on the third Sunday in July, we gather at 7 am at North Avenue beach in Chicago to hold our annual baptism service. This year, there were 71 people who were baptized in Lake Michigan in front of their friends, family and the Park Community Church family.

It is so cool to have [...]

Cheney is President!

At this very moment, Dick Cheney is the President of the United States of America!
Sound a little crazy? It isn’t. For only the third time in modern history, the Vice President has assumed presidential powers as President Bush invoked the Constitution’s presidential disability clause. will have a colonoscopy Saturday and temporarily hand [...]

McEwen Wins…Will He Continue?

Wow! Does Robbie McEwen have a gear that no one else has? Robbie produced a stunning come-from-the-back-of-the-peleton finish to win yesterday’s first stage of the Tour de France. McEwen once again produced his trademark burst of power to finish a bike length ahead of Norwegian Thor Hushovd at the end of a [...]

Differencemakers: Golf to God

I love golf and am excited about a successful ministry founded by a professional golfer that is using golf to help others find Jesus on the fairways. This ministry is called “In His Grip” Golf Association, a ministry that teaches churches how to use golf as a way to share the Gospel. Founder [...]

Sliding into Vacation

Wisconsin Dells, Here We Come!
I am off with the whole family for some quick R&R in the Wisconsin Dells. Got a great deal at Wilderness Resort and looking forward to a couple of mid-day naps with my IPod going (and dreaming about getting one of the precious IPhones)!
Katie turns 8 this week and this [...]