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year old Danbury woman wins million plus jackpot New Milford man charged in car theft Newtown man faces DUI charges From the last hours Boston Billiard Club in Danbury closed Update Actor Rip Torn pleads not guilty to drunken driving in. Report Waterbury teacher found dead in Bahamas Foncello named interim principal at Immaculate Danbury revokes Horizon Restaurant s zoning permit Keep the letters coming State pulls Horizon s liquor license For the record WestConn s Lee sets point mark in lopsided. Danbury may reconsider Friday library closing Geno wants Huskies to keep improving Print Email Font Resize Capping a coach s career in the pages of a new book Newstimes Updated PM EST The orange and blue baseball cap with the letter D sewn on the front hasn t changed even after all these years. It still retains the wool armor that served Gus Edwards well in those epic football battles at Danbury High School. See there s no elastic band in the back the year old Edwards pointed out Tuesday. This one s an original. Much like the cap s owner. For years Edwards wore the Danbury High colors as the head football coach on Clapboard Ridge. He made a career of teaching values and victory on the same pinstriped field. Edwards led the Hatters to two Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference FCIAC championships including an undefeated season in . He compiled a career record of . But he also planted seeds of success in Alex Femenia and Rich Macko who built notable careers in law enforcement. Edwards also touched George Radachowsky and Darryl Dewan who earned football scholarships to Boston College and Notre Dame respectively. In fact Radachowsky made it all the way to the NFL to play for the New York Jets. Every year Eugene Gus Edwards built futures one down at a time. Paul Baker the voice of WLAD AM for so many years broadcast countless Danbury High games with his longtime radio partner Abe Najamy. But the moment those stories evaporated over the airwaves they were gone. That always bothered Baker. In fact it gnawed at him for a Advertisement generation. Last summer Baker decided to do something about it. First he picked up the phone and pitched a book deal to Edwards. Then he picked up a pen and started taking notes. A lot of notes. The result is a brand new paperback called The Gus Edwards Story From Cradle to Coach amp Colonel. The page effort chronicles Edwards from his days as a boy playing marbles and kick the can in Georgetown to serving in the U.S. Army to serving as a high school guidance counselor. The book sells for and is available locally see box . Proceeds will benefit the Gus Edwards Scholarship Benevolent Foundation. Baker figures he should ve written the book or years ago. But now that it s published none of that matters anymore. The story is out at last. Nobody nobody has made more of an impression on me than Gus Edwards Baker said shaking his finger for emphasis. Gus is an incredible person. Gus has helped so many people and so many players and so many kids in Danbury I had to write this book Baker added. His story is too important not to be put on paper. Edwards used football to teach and reach so many great Danbury players from Doug Morrell and Pete Laboy to Kevin Burns and Pete Radlet to Dave Wilda Bob Hinckley and too many others to list here. Every last one of them is a tribute to Edwards the football coach who wore a headset exactly once for about five minutes before he yanked it off his head. Edwards was old school after all. During summer workouts Edwards shaped the boys in his gridiron foundry under the sun. As a result the Hatters were usually among the best conditioned and the best prepared teams in the FCIAC. I was always a very active coach Edwards grinned. I was right in it. I was in the huddle. I was in the drills. I was everywhere. Mostly Edwards turned up where Danbury kids needed him most. Sometimes it was in the locker room. Sometimes it was in his school office as a guidance counselor. Other times it was in his car for an impromptu ride home. Sure Edwards could be abrasive but only because teenage boys are often rough around the edges. It was never meant personally Edwards said. It was meant to make you a better player a better person. Edwards spent years as a guidance counselor at Danbury High and across town at Immaculate High. By Baker s count Edwards worked with more than students during his career. To this day Edwards credits his wife Elaine and their three children Gene Marty and Robin for their love and support for making him feel complete. Football was a wonderful canvas of course to paint teamwork and responsibility and integrity. But it only meant something if those lessons extended far beyond Clapboard Ridge. This was the urgency Paul Baker felt in his heart all that time. This is why it was so important for him to write this book about his friend Gus Edwards. During Baker s year career as a radio and TV personality he interviewed the likes of Willie Mays Mickey Mantle George Steinbrenner and Henry Aaron. I wouldn t trade one Gus Edwards for all the Mantles and Aarons and all the other celebrities in the whole world Baker said. And you know what He s right. Don t let the glasses or the wrinkles or the thin hair fool you. The orange and blue baseball cap still fits Gus Edwards perfectly. Contact Brian Koonz at bkoonznewstimes.com or at . Print Email Font Resize Return to Top POST YOUR COMMENTS Related Ads Contact Us Privacy Policy Site Map RSS Advertise with Us Weather data Copyright CustomWeather Inc. Copyright Hearst Communications Inc. Featured Links Privacy Policy MNG Corporate Site Map Copyright Baseball Tickets NBA Tickets NFL Tickets NASCAR Tickets WWE Tickets Golf Tickets Tennis Tickets Nike s swoosh is now under wraps Posted Comment Recommend E mail Save Print By Michael McCarthy USA TODAY When the Florida Gators and Oklahoma Sooners take the field for Thursday night s BCS national championship game some players will be wearing extra protection under their shoulder pads and uniforms. Namely new protective sports apparel called Nike Pro Combat. With Thursday s championship game Nike makes one of its biggest moves on the small but growing category of protective performance wear. These undergarments feature lightweight pads woven into shirts and shorts. The foam or plastic pads give athletes extra protection on their arms legs and hips from bruises abrasions and turf burns. They re light and flexible enough that players feel like they re wearing regular undergarments says Nike creative director Todd Van Horne. This is the future of football and any sport that needs protection Van Horne says. If you make it lightweight breathable and flexible more athletes will wear it. That reduces injuries. Nike endorsers LeBron James and Kobe Bryant wore Pro Combat gear under their Team USA uniforms at the Beijing Olympics Van Horne says. James wore an elbow sleeve to protect a bursitis condition. Bryant wore basketball shorts with extra padding in the thighs and hips. Oregon s football players wore the padded base layers this season. Players from schools outfitted by Nike such as Penn State and Virginia Tech wore it during the Rose and Orange Bowls. Later this year the Swoosh will take aim at consumers with the launch of three Pro Combat products. On June it will roll out two types of Deflex football shorts at retail prices of . During the holiday season it will introduce a basketball elbow sleeve for . The target market high school and college football and basketball jocks. If sales take off the Beaverton Ore. based giant may offer similar gear for other sports Van Horne says. Nike s expansion in football can be seen as a shot across the bow of Under Armour the fast growing competitor that made its bones with tight fitting T shirts for football players. Under Armour is directly challenging Nike by launching its first running shoe line Super Bowl weekend. Under Armour chief executive officer Kevin Plank a former fullback at the University of Maryland says he ll eventually take on Nike in basketball shoes. The Swoosh s expansion into protective apparel has sparked a legal challenge from McDavid which filed a patent infringement suit in federal court last year. The Woodbridge Ill. based company won t comment on the suit. But vice president Terence Fee said his firm has built a strong business with its HexPad technology. Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade endorses the products. Athletes are increasingly donning protective apparel for any team sports that requires contact says Fee. We believe there s many different applications for it. Football is one market. Basketball is another. We ve had success selling it into the soccer market in Europe. Nike counters the suit lacks factual merit in a statement. Nike believes that athletes can decide which products provide the greatest performance advantage and that both should be allowed to compete in the marketplace unchanged. Posted E mail Save Print To report corrections and clarifications contact Reader Editor Brent Jones . For publication consideration in the newspaper send comments to lettersusatoday.com . Include name phone number city and state for verification. To view our corrections go to corrections.usatoday.com . Guidelines You share in the USA TODAY community so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don t attack other readers personally and keep your language decent. 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Capping a coachs career in the pages of a new book The NewsTimes homes flattens Gaza mosque Luciannecom
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:34:30 +0000
year old Danbury woman wins million plus jackpot New Milford man charged in car theft Newtown man faces DUI charges From the last hours Boston Billiard Club in Danbury closed Update Actor Rip Torn pleads not guilty to drunken driving in. Report Waterbury teacher found dead in Bahamas Foncello named interim principal at Immaculate Danbury revokes Horizon Restaurant s zoning permit Keep the letters coming State pulls Horizon s liquor license For the record WestConn s Lee sets point mark in lopsided. Danbury may reconsider Friday library closing Geno wants Huskies to keep improving Print Email Font Resize Capping a coach s career in the pages of a new book Newstimes Updated PM EST The orange and blue baseball cap with the letter D sewn on the front hasn t changed even after all these years. It still retains the wool armor that served Gus Edwards well in those epic football battles at Danbury High School. See there s no elastic band in the back the year old Edwards pointed out Tuesday. This one s an original. Much like the cap s owner. For years Edwards wore the Danbury High colors as the head football coach on Clapboard Ridge. He made a career of teaching values and victory on the same pinstriped field. Edwards led the Hatters to two Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference FCIAC championships including an undefeated season in . He compiled a career record of . But he also planted seeds of success in Alex Femenia and Rich Macko who built notable careers in law enforcement. Edwards also touched George Radachowsky and Darryl Dewan who earned football scholarships to Boston College and Notre Dame respectively. In fact Radachowsky made it all the way to the NFL to play for the New York Jets. Every year Eugene Gus Edwards built futures one down at a time. Paul Baker the voice of WLAD AM for so many years broadcast countless Danbury High games with his longtime radio partner Abe Najamy. But the moment those stories evaporated over the airwaves they were gone. That always bothered Baker. In fact it gnawed at him for a Advertisement generation. Last summer Baker decided to do something about it. First he picked up the phone and pitched a book deal to Edwards. Then he picked up a pen and started taking notes. A lot of notes. The result is a brand new paperback called The Gus Edwards Story From Cradle to Coach amp Colonel. The page effort chronicles Edwards from his days as a boy playing marbles and kick the can in Georgetown to serving in the U.S. Army to serving as a high school guidance counselor. The book sells for and is available locally see box . Proceeds will benefit the Gus Edwards Scholarship Benevolent Foundation. Baker figures he should ve written the book or years ago. But now that it s published none of that matters anymore. The story is out at last. Nobody nobody has made more of an impression on me than Gus Edwards Baker said shaking his finger for emphasis. Gus is an incredible person. Gus has helped so many people and so many players and so many kids in Danbury I had to write this book Baker added. His story is too important not to be put on paper. Edwards used football to teach and reach so many great Danbury players from Doug Morrell and Pete Laboy to Kevin Burns and Pete Radlet to Dave Wilda Bob Hinckley and too many others to list here. Every last one of them is a tribute to Edwards the football coach who wore a headset exactly once for about five minutes before he yanked it off his head. Edwards was old school after all. During summer workouts Edwards shaped the boys in his gridiron foundry under the sun. As a result the Hatters were usually among the best conditioned and the best prepared teams in the FCIAC. I was always a very active coach Edwards grinned. I was right in it. I was in the huddle. I was in the drills. I was everywhere. Mostly Edwards turned up where Danbury kids needed him most. Sometimes it was in the locker room. Sometimes it was in his school office as a guidance counselor. Other times it was in his car for an impromptu ride home. Sure Edwards could be abrasive but only because teenage boys are often rough around the edges. It was never meant personally Edwards said. It was meant to make you a better player a better person. Edwards spent years as a guidance counselor at Danbury High and across town at Immaculate High. By Baker s count Edwards worked with more than students during his career. To this day Edwards credits his wife Elaine and their three children Gene Marty and Robin for their love and support for making him feel complete. Football was a wonderful canvas of course to paint teamwork and responsibility and integrity. But it only meant something if those lessons extended far beyond Clapboard Ridge. This was the urgency Paul Baker felt in his heart all that time. This is why it was so important for him to write this book about his friend Gus Edwards. During Baker s year career as a radio and TV personality he interviewed the likes of Willie Mays Mickey Mantle George Steinbrenner and Henry Aaron. I wouldn t trade one Gus Edwards for all the Mantles and Aarons and all the other celebrities in the whole world Baker said. And you know what He s right. Don t let the glasses or the wrinkles or the thin hair fool you. The orange and blue baseball cap still fits Gus Edwards perfectly. Contact Brian Koonz at bkoonznewstimes.com or at . Print Email Font Resize Return to Top POST YOUR COMMENTS Related Ads Contact Us Privacy Policy Site Map RSS Advertise with Us Weather data Copyright CustomWeather Inc. Copyright Hearst Communications Inc. Featured Links Privacy Policy MNG Corporate Site Map Copyright Baseball Tickets NBA Tickets NFL Tickets NASCAR Tickets WWE Tickets Golf Tickets Tennis Tickets Nike s swoosh is now under wraps Posted Comment Recommend E mail Save Print By Michael McCarthy USA TODAY When the Florida Gators and Oklahoma Sooners take the field for Thursday night s BCS national championship game some players will be wearing extra protection under their shoulder pads and uniforms. Namely new protective sports apparel called Nike Pro Combat. With Thursday s championship game Nike makes one of its biggest moves on the small but growing category of protective performance wear. These undergarments feature lightweight pads woven into shirts and shorts. The foam or plastic pads give athletes extra protection on their arms legs and hips from bruises abrasions and turf burns. They re light and flexible enough that players feel like they re wearing regular undergarments says Nike creative director Todd Van Horne. This is the future of football and any sport that needs protection Van Horne says. If you make it lightweight breathable and flexible more athletes will wear it. That reduces injuries. Nike endorsers LeBron James and Kobe Bryant wore Pro Combat gear under their Team USA uniforms at the Beijing Olympics Van Horne says. James wore an elbow sleeve to protect a bursitis condition. Bryant wore basketball shorts with extra padding in the thighs and hips. Oregon s football players wore the padded base layers this season. Players from schools outfitted by Nike such as Penn State and Virginia Tech wore it during the Rose and Orange Bowls. Later this year the Swoosh will take aim at consumers with the launch of three Pro Combat products. On June it will roll out two types of Deflex football shorts at retail prices of . During the holiday season it will introduce a basketball elbow sleeve for . The target market high school and college football and basketball jocks. If sales take off the Beaverton Ore. based giant may offer similar gear for other sports Van Horne says. Nike s expansion in football can be seen as a shot across the bow of Under Armour the fast growing competitor that made its bones with tight fitting T shirts for football players. Under Armour is directly challenging Nike by launching its first running shoe line Super Bowl weekend. Under Armour chief executive officer Kevin Plank a former fullback at the University of Maryland says he ll eventually take on Nike in basketball shoes. The Swoosh s expansion into protective apparel has sparked a legal challenge from McDavid which filed a patent infringement suit in federal court last year. The Woodbridge Ill. based company won t comment on the suit. But vice president Terence Fee said his firm has built a strong business with its HexPad technology. Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade endorses the products. Athletes are increasingly donning protective apparel for any team sports that requires contact says Fee. We believe there s many different applications for it. Football is one market. Basketball is another. We ve had success selling it into the soccer market in Europe. Nike counters the suit lacks factual merit in a statement. Nike believes that athletes can decide which products provide the greatest performance advantage and that both should be allowed to compete in the marketplace unchanged. Posted E mail Save Print To report corrections and clarifications contact Reader Editor Brent Jones . For publication consideration in the newspaper send comments to lettersusatoday.com . Include name phone number city and state for verification. To view our corrections go to corrections.usatoday.com . Guidelines You share in the USA TODAY community so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don t attack other readers personally and keep your language decent. Use the Report Abuse button to make a difference. Read more . Newspaper Home Delivery Subscribe Today Home News Travel Money Sports Life Tech Weather About USATODAY.com Site Map FAQ Contact Us Jobs with Us Terms of Service Privacy Policy Your California Privacy Right Advertise Press Room Media Lounge Reprints and Permissions News Your Way Mobile News Email News IM Alerts Add USATODAY.com RSS feeds Podcasts Widgets Partners USA WEEKEND Sports Weekly Education Space.com Copyright USA TODAY a division of Gannett Co. Inc. Help feed him or he will kill us Quemasa Home Page Latest Posts Short Cuts Register Rules Search Post Contact FAQ Latest Articles There s really nothing to see in the HTML Source. All of the heavy lifting is done elsewhere you are simply seeing the results of programming. Next Articles Home Page Latest Posts Short Cuts Register Rules Search Post Contact FAQ Lucianne.com Media Inc.
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