Sports Haven Product Alert!
Sports Haven in downtown McKinney is proud to carry the Christian faith-based book Daily Devotions for Die-Hard Fans by Ed McMinn. This book features 95 devotional inserts, providing a time of reflection about God and your faith. It is also filled with great stories from a specific university about certain players, coaches, legendary games, improbable victories, and historical events. Ed McMinn is a retired pastor living in Virginia who entered the ministry after a career as a journalist and a college teacher of English and journalism. His book provides a great twist to all the stories it contains, as they are all tied to God’s story.
Universities & Story Examples
Texas Longhorns
-When the Texas softball team held its first-ever practice, four players showed up.
-Colt McCoy and his dad went for a Memorial Day swim…to help save a life.
-The trainer felt lucky and helped the Texas baseball team to a national title.
-Charlie Strong’s first team included a Green Beret walk-on starter who missed practice time to go to war
-With the national title on the line in the 2006 Rose Bowl, a Texas defender looked up and saw what was coming.
*Also appearing are Vince Young, Destinee Hooker, Mack Brown, Earl Campbell, Darrell Royal, Bobby Layne, and many others!
Texas A&M Aggies
-The Aggie women celebrated their basketball national title with a gourmet meal – at Steak ‘n Shake.
-With only a short time available, Jimbo Fisher and his staff had to hustle to salvage A&M’s 2018 recruiting class.
-The Aggies and LSU got together in 2018 and threw one of the wildest and craziest football games in NCAA history.
-In the 2016 NCAA Tournament, the A&M men pulled off the largest last-minute comeback in basketball history.
-The Aggies once had a football player who was homeless.
*Also appearing are John David Crow, Dat Nguyen, R.C. Slocum, Von Miller, Johnny Manziel, and many others!
TCU Horned Frogs
-An unconscious player once won a game for the TCU freshman football team.
-TCU has a real dynasty in one of the more unusual NCAA-sanctioned sports.
-All-American tackle Marcus Cannon knew what to do when he was diagnosed with cancer: pray.
-One would-be TCU walk-on trained by tackling trees.
-Bill Montigel, TCU’s ultra-successful golf coach, didn’t even play the game when he arrived in Fort Worth.
*Also appearing are Gary Patterson, Andy Dalton, Sammy Baugh, Sandora Irvin, Davey O’Brian, LaDainian Tomlinson, and many others!
Texas Tech Red Raiders
-Tech All-American defensive back Denton Fox had his first brush with flame in a Paul Newman movie.
-Matt Mooney survived injuries and transfers to wind up blessed with the national-champion runners-up of 2019.
-QB Cody Hodges didn’t see Joel Filani catch the TD pass with 12 seconds left – but he knew Tech had won.
-Sally Kipyego, the greatest cross-country runner in college history, once ran a race to save a life – and lost.
-The Tech football team of 2019 needed a leader to step up, Senior linebacker Jordyn Brooks was the man.
*Also appearing are Kliff Kingsbury, Spike Dykes, Wes Welker, Sheryl Swoops, Mike Leach, Graham Harrell, Donny Anderson, and many others!
Baylor Bears
-A Baylor football player once volunteered to play the other team all by himself.
-Melissa Jones missed only one game despite an on-court injury that left her virtually blind in one eye.
-Baylor once played a. softball game that took seven years to complete.
-The Lady Bears were coasting toward the 2019 national title when something unexpected and drastic happened.
-Grant Teaff came up with a novel idea to inspire his team: he ate a worm.
*Also appearing are Robert Griffin III, Nice Florence, Brittney Griner, Matt Rhule, Odyssey Sims, Kim Mulkey, Bryce Petty, and many others!
Oklahoma Sooners
-School administrators once voted to discontinue the women’s basketball program
-Baker Mayfield was once the quarterback nobody wanted.
-Sooner Natasha Kelley was an All-American gymnast, even though she competed with her right knee in two pieces.
-Oklahoma once scored a touchdown after the band had taken the field for its halftime show.
-Samaje Perine was humble about the football history he had just made, but his lineman sure weren’t.
*Also appearing are Bob Stoops, Blake Griffin, Jason White, Bud Wilkinson, Sam Bradford, Lincoln Riley, Courtney Paris, Barry Switzer, Adrian Peterson, and many others!
Oklahoma State Cowboys
-Best friends, a pair of OSU All-Americans began each game the same way: with a handshake.
-Fellow coaches derided Hank Iba as being nuts – for putting a seven-foot basketball player on the court.
-When Barry Sanders was announced as the winner of the Heisman Trophy, he wasn’t even in the country.
-The man who laid the foundation for OSU’s wrestling dynasty never wrestled competitively.
-Not surprisingly, undressed cheerleaders once proved a distraction for the Cowboys before a game.
*Also appearing are Mike Gundy, Brandon Weeden, Thurman Thomas, Andrea Riley, Zac Robinson, and many others!
Other Schools Available In-Store
-LSU Tigers
-Alabama Crimson Tide
-Arkansas Razorbacks
-Ohio State Buckeyes
-Georgia Bulldogs
Come pick up a copy of your school, and let’s get in God’s Word today!
