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Mark Dixon shares what he likes about Twitter . E. g. he likes Tweet Scan and thus encouraged me to restart our once famous series of summaries of sport and spirituality on twitter . Not on a regular basis, but at least occasionally. Now here comes A Sporting Christmas on Twitter: There were 37 workout-tweets on Christmas Eve. These are our favorites: Hannes' Xmas , MJ's shopper , kjo48's gift , Shawn's run , allify's holiday , Shannon's cookies and Josh's SMS There were 20 workout-tweets on Christmas Day. These are our favorites: Mike's Triceps , paugren's Christmas , meetmeinmontauk's bliss , Daniel's thumbs and calinative's pain .

1. Kaka planning future as evangelical minister ( soccer ) 2. NBA's Nastiest and Most Unusual Records ( nba ) 3. Thanksgiving Day Prayers and Football ( nfl , thanksgiving ) 4. Jon Kitna doesn't have to go to hell ( nfl , thanksgiving ) 5. Fast forward to the 5th Stage of Grief ( nfl ) 6. NHaiL Satan ( nhl ) 7. Ferocious ( boxing , myspace ) 8. South Park: Jesus wins! ( boxing , branding , wwe ) 9. Robert Guerrero Knockout Video ( boxing ) 10. blogs4God ( blogs )

Near the end of the year it's time for lists. Holy Trinity! is #1 of TIME's Top 10 Sports Moments

NBC is reinventing the classic competition series American Gladiators and is currently filming a brand new series with new Contenders and a new team of Gladiators for their upcoming premiere season. Hulk Hogan and Laila Ali ( Muhammad Ali's daughter ) will be the brand new hosts for the series which airs 6th January 2008 on NBC . That day is Epiphany (Greek: επιφάνεια, "appearance" or "manifestation") - a Christian feast intended to celebrate the "shining forth" or revelation of God to mankind in human form, in the person of Jesus. Some Christians commemorate the visitation of the Magi to the child Jesus on this day, while others use the day to commemorate the baptism of Jesus as an adult.

75558017WM016_Chicago_Bears Epic Carnival welcomes you to the holiday edition of Cheerleader Friday . Instead of focusing on one cheerleader or one team's cheerleaders, DCScrap has decided to post completely random photos of cheerleaders in holiday attire.

The RSLFM Report combined stadium construction site photos with Christmas songs aka Christmas Card from Real Salt Lake... via sports books | spirituality books

"You better watch out, you're better not proud..." Once you defeated Santa on court you better give him a warm huck, because "he knows if you are good or bad, so be good for goodness' sake!"

are his two front teeth ;-) via sports books | spirituality books

America has a new favorite Christmas movie: A Christmas Story, the 1983 tale about Ralphie (Peter Billingsley), a 9-year-old in 1940s Indiana, and his lust for a Red Ryder air rifle. And it's overtaking Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol and the rest. This is one of those little pop-cultural shifts--football overtakes baseball, salsa defeats ketchup--that signal bigger changes: here, in the relationship between the community and the individual. In a traditional Christmas story, the larger holiday is a social good. Read more at time.com

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lemon from Church 2.0 - the blog is reminded that there are still a number of folks who don't share appreciation of the medium "weblog" and thus recomends watching "Blogs in Plain English". With the help of blogs, "a sports star can share news with fans". That's Church 2.0 at its best.

In his fascinating latest movie " I Am Legend " Will Smith is the last man on earth. His routine of the day begins with exercise: treadmill and pull-ups. Later on a Judeo-Christian theme gets introduced, the creatures lay siege to the townhouse, and Robert discovers the antidote for the plague. via sports books | spirituality books

Brett Favre was named 2007 Sportsman of the Year . His fan store offers a 2006 season photograph taken by Jim Biever inside the Packers' locker room during a prayer before a home game on Dec. 21st. Catholic Online is happy that Brett Favre and Wife Deanna Credit Catholic Faith . sports books | spirituality books

The Lord's reaction to Tim Tebow's Heisman win ? "Pure joy", says the Sports Frog . sports books | spirituality books

During these days of Hanukkah some will receive one box that needs no unwrapping: a tzedakah box , used to collect coins for a good cause. Tzedakah (Hebrew: צדקה) is a Hebrew word most commonly translated as charity, though it is based on a root meaning justice (צדק). The Jewish Museum Shop offers the pictured tzedakah box. It features a collage of antique sports images and words. A nice gift for the bar mitzvah boy or sports enthusiast. via