| For pure devotion, these guys are the benchmark
This weekend, the high school football season kicks off in stadiums across the region. And while gallant tales of 200-yard rushers and 300-yard passers are sure to appear, what of those players who sit so far down the bench they need a cellphone to reach the coach? The ones whose main responsibility is to offer sideline cheers on days they're not acting as tackle dummies? The ones whose devotion to the game begs the question: Why do they emotionally and physically sacrifice themselves, knowing the limelight probably will always shine on another player? ``For me, I keep coming out for the team because I love football," said Connor Bevans, the backup to the backup quarterback for the defending Division 2 Super Bowl champion Duxbury Dragons. ``I love the game, and I love being a part of the team." Bevans represents a loyal fraternity of high school football players who, despite getting their bones crunched in practice and rarely, if ever, seeing playing time, always show up every day as if the entire school program depended on it.
Freestyle road trip on a Harley; destination
When you travel by car, you just point and drive, turning on the windshield wipers or rolling down the window as weather conditions might dictate. On a motorcycle it is never that easy or uneventful. And that can be the beauty and the curse of the sport. Everything is going fine until I encounter a temporary single-lane bridge over the Similkameen River, east of Princeton in southern British Columbia, that is governed by a traffic light. I wait. And wait. Screw it. As often happens to motorcyclists who find their machines are not big enough to activate a traffic light, I decide to throw the Motor Vehicle Act to the wind and make a wild run for it on my black 883cc Harley Sportster. Getting across the bridge turns out to be the easy part.
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