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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (BP)–When the Florida State Seminoles take the field Sept. 4 in Tallahassee to play the Samford University Bulldogs, they will be without Coach Bobby Bowden for the first time in 35 years.
      Although Bowden will be “cheering like mad for Florida State,” he won’t be at the game, the coaching legend told Florida Baptist Witness in a recent telephone interview.
      “I’m not going to come to any games this year because I want Jimbo to have the freedom of not having me hanging around,” Bowden said of his successor as head coach of the Seminoles.

DALLAS (BP)--Former Indianapolis head coach Tony Dungy, in Dallas for an NFL kickoff luncheon, said he had no apologies for his high-profile stance in helping troubled players and his recent publicized verbal run-in with New York Jets coach Rex Ryan.

OMAHA, Neb. (BP)–Dayton Moore called it the toughest challenge in all of sports when he was named the general manager of the Kansas City Royals in 2006.

MORRISTOWN, Tenn. (BP)—Sunday, Aug. 8, was already scheduled to be a special day at First Baptist Church here.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)--St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday is the subject of an interview in the most recent edition of Sharing the Victory magazine, published by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (BP)--The Samford University women's soccer team was defeated by the 18th-ranked Memphis Lady Tigers 3-0 Aug. 22 as the non-conference foes squared off in an early-season contest held at the Mike Rose Soccer Complex.

WACO, Texas (BP)--Baylor (2-0-0) used seven goals from six different players, including six in the second half, en route to a 7-0 win over McNeese State (0-2-0) Aug. 22 at Betty Lou Mays Field.

      RIVERSIDE, Calif. (BP)--The cheerleading coach of California Baptist University was killed and a dozen cross country team members were injured Aug. 9 in a three-vehicle multiple-fatality accident on California Highway 395 near Bishop, Calif.
      Wendy Rice was driving one of three vans carrying CBU student athletes to a high altitude training camp in Mammoth, Calif. Rice died when the van was struck by an oncoming SUV that apparently ran out of control, overturned and burst into flames on impact.

TAMPA, Fla. (BP)--Tony Dungy no longer needs the game-day apparel and gear of an NFL head coach, but that doesn't keep him from donning distinctively different attire when the occasion calls for it.
      "They asked me to play John the Baptist," Dungy said of his church's Easter pageant, in which he baptized his 18-year-old son Eric, who was playing Jesus.
      "It was just really moving," Dungy said. "I was just so proud of him." Smiling at the memory of the moment, Dungy credited his son with having "a heart" to practice and rehearse.

TAMPA, Fla. (BP)--At the All Pro Dad website (www.AllProDad.com), Tony Dungy helps deliver what is promised in its logo: "advice, events, family."

NACOGDOCHES, Texas (BP)--When the former NFL player stepped onto the stage, he knew the several hundred youth seated before him may have expected someone bigger.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (BP)--In the weeks leading up to the World Equestrian Games, competitors are not the only ones ramping up for the country's largest-ever equine event.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (BP)--"The World Cup is over, but South Africa is still here."

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (BP)--It's not your typical Africa.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (BP)--The feet seem to move furiously across the canvas, black swirls indicating a sense of near-frantic excitement.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Mike Capps would have been so proud.
      This is what he and his son, Matt, used to talk about all those years ago at old Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium as they watched their hometown Braves. Matt would gawk at blasts by Dale Murphy and, later, Chipper Jones. He’d marvel at the way Greg Maddux painted the corners with the precision of a world-class artist, or the way John Smoltz conjured up fireballs from his fingertips.

CUMMING, Ga. (BP)--With dozens of kids toting Florida Gator signable footballs or miniature orange football helmets, or decked out in blue jerseys with "15" on the back -- and grown-ups wearing their game-day Gator shirts -- it could have been October in Gainesville, Fla.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (BP)--Playing for the second-youngest team in the NBA this past season, Kevin Durant became the youngest player in NBA history to win the league's scoring title when he finished the 2009-10 regular season averaging 30.1 points.

BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa (BP)--Soccer was his passion and he wanted nothing more than to gain success in the game, even if it meant sacrificing his relationship with his parents.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (BP)--Ten stadiums, 32 nations, 64 matches, four weeks and one winner. They all add up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, held in South Africa from June 11 to July 11.