The Lions took the field tonight under the big lights for their yearly spring game.  The game is nothing serious in the sense of competition, but is more of a practice game.  The Lions face off against themselves with 1st Team Offense vs 1st Team Defense and so on.  We thought tonight would be a great practice to test out our new Canon 7D's and see how they preformed under low light and bad weather.  Enjoy a few samples, and we look forward to seeing the Lions start their season in Sept.

Last weekend the American Cancer Society put on a spectacularly yummy event.  The 2nd Annual Cupcakes For Cures competition brought in over 120 cupcake submissions, and over 400 attendees.  The fundraiser totaled over $11,000 with all proceeds going to benefit the American Cancer Society and their fight against cancer.   The cupcake winners can be found at www.cupcakesforcures.com.  

This years Mardi Gras parade through downtown Asheville was full of wonderful colors and amazing masks.  Here are a few faces from this years parade.  

The Mars Hill Lions (5-4) completed their 4 game sweep over the Fairmont Fighting Falcons(0-4) this afternoon under sunny skies at Henderson Field.  

This years Toughman wasn't hampered at all by the weather, and the crowd was twice the size of last years.   Through out Friday night the crowd seemed to be pretty tame until 58 year old Norman Davis took the ring.  At age 58, Norman was the oldest man to enter the competition which put him in the underdog category.    By the time the last bell sounded on Saturday night, Norman emerged the Champion.  The championship round wasn't looking to be in Normans favor.   His opponent Potter, who on the first night of the competition had defeated last years runner up "Lunch Money Adams" by submission, and in his first fight on Saturday night had got the nights only knock out.  ( You can see both videos of the knock out and submission below )   

When the fight started Potter went to town on Davis keeping him against the ropes with a fury of body and head punches.  The 58 year old Davis withstood the melee, and landed a right hook to Potters jaw which almost knocked Potter to the mat.  Stumbling back to his corner, and after examination Potter conceded the match and Davis raised his arms in victory, and the crowd literally went wild.   

Tonight the Mars Hill College Lions faced off against Newberry.  The Lions and Wolves were close all night, but in the final minute, the Lions took a 5 point lead and never dropped below again.  The Lions improve to 7-12 overall, 4-7 in the South Atlantic Conference.  

This evening in downtown Asheville at the Federal Building a group of protesters gathered to show their anger toward the U.S Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald in a national call to action.  In December of 2010, Fitzpatrick ordered the FBI to deliver nine new subpoenas in Chicago to anti-war and Palestine solidarity activists.   You can read more at http://www.stopfbi.net/take-action/2010/12/31/jan-25-take-action-protest-fbi-and-grand-jury-repression Below are the images I captured in my coverage, if you wish to use any of these images for your own publications of blogs please contact me at Jeremy@infocusmultimedia.com.