Posts Tagged ‘Career’

Denard Robinson shows leadership, muscle in U-M victory

Saturday, November 26th, 2011
The Michigan quarterback is the fourth player in NCAA history to gain 2,000 yards passing and 1,000 rushing twice in his career. But the more important stat for Robinson is he quarterbacked the Wolverines to their first win against the Buckeyes since 2003.

Muscle Shoals native gets jump on career

Friday, February 25th, 2011
By Lisa Singleton-Rickman, Staff Writer Rebecca Whitlow is well on her way to making a name for herself in the field of architecture.

Pontiac enters oblivion today, long after era of muscle cars

Sunday, October 31st, 2010
DETROIT — Pontiac, the brand that invented the muscle car under its flamboyant engineer John Z. DeLorean, helped Burt Reynolds elude Sheriff Justice in Smokey and the Bandit and taught baby boomers to salivate over horsepower, but produced mostly forgettable cars for their children, will endure a lonely death today after a career totaling about 40 million in sales.

Torn oblique muscle looks likely to end Jim Edmonds’ career

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
Last week Jim Edmonds indicated that he plans to retire after the season and now it sounds like the 40-year-old outfielder may have already played his final game. Edmonds is on the disabled list with an oblique injury that was...

Muscle Shoals runner wraps up career

Saturday, April 24th, 2010
By Trevor Stokes, Staff Writer Paul Bailey competed in his last Special Olympics event Friday, a bittersweet occasion for his family who started taking the 21-year-old to the event when he was 3. Next year, Bailey will be too old to compete in Special Olympics, an event that months later will have him making a pistol sound and running in his backyard.