ttended some spring practices and meetings at Cal and gets his coaching fix through Jake and his other son, Zac, a defensive assistant at Texas Tech.Spike Dykes also enjoys the life of a ret

Three concussions in four months sidelined NHRA Funny Car driver Alexis DeJoria from this weekends season finale in Pomona, California, and her condition has left the popular competitor grappling with everyday life.I have limited my outings considerably because it wears me down, DeJoria said Saturday. I end up getting nauseas and headaches. Once a day Ill try to go out if I feel up to it, but I dont drive. Im basically living the life of a cave woman. If Im hungry, I eat. If Im tired, I sleep. No social media, no cell phones, no computers, no sports, no motorcycles. If I watch a movie, it has to be on a light subject, such as a comedy.DeJorias problems began two weeks ago, after she slammed into the wall at Las Vegas during her third qualifying run. That night when she activated her Funny Cars parachutes, they were sucked up under the car. They wrapped around the right-rear axle and got into the brakes, preventing her from slowing the car. The cars body then dug into the left-front tire and kept her from steering it away from the tracks left side. When her car slammed into the wall, her head smacked the roll cage.For several seconds, DeJoria said she could do nothing but hold her head with her hands while still wearing her helmet. She remembers telling members of the NHRAs Safety Safari team to just hold on, that she couldnt move, but she has no recollection as to how she exited her car.My team gives me a very well-prepared, safe race car, but these are still violent race cars; things happen that are out of our immediate control, DeJoria said. We know our job is a dangerous one.DeJoria decided to make her fourth qualifying run that day even though she didnt feel well. The next morning, she said she felt like she had a horrible hangover. She drank a cup of coffee, arrived at the track and participated in warm-ups. It was then that DeJoria realized she had a major problem. Her crew chief, Tommy DeLago, looked at his driver and told her she didnt look right. She knew it, too. She said she felt like a version of herself, almost as if she were having an out-of-body experience. DeJoria had qualified ninth, but her team decided withdrawing from the elimination round was the prudent thing to do.Two days after returning home to Austin, Texas, DeJoria was diagnosed with a concussion by doctors at Texas Sport and Family Medicine. She said they gave her a series of cognitive tests and she failed all of them. DeJoria said Saturday doesnt feel any better than she did then. She is considering seeing a specialist.?Every morning since that Saturday night run at Las Vegas I have woken up with headaches. I feel clouded, I feel hazy, DeJoria said. I cant handle too much noise or bright lights. I can only handle one task at a time.Every morning I wake up thinking, Is today going to be the day I feel better? Can I get in a race car today? And so far its been hell no. I cant imagine me sitting in a race car at this moment and going down the race track. Its heartbreaking, but head trauma is nothing to mess around with. Its scary.DeJoria has reviewed NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr.s comments about his concussionlike symptoms this year and has found similarities.I was reading an interesting article that Dale Earnhardt Jr. had written, and it was saying that he couldnt understand why his symptoms showed up so much later, DeJoria said. Hed had a few accidents and a few concussions, but the real big symptoms didnt really show up until much later.Such is the case for DeJoria. Even though it was the concussion she suffered at Las Vegas that sidelined her, it was not the beginning of her head trauma issues. They actually began the weekend of July 22-24 in Denver.We made a run late Friday night, DeJoria said. Ive been through tire shakes a lot in my career ... but this was a certain tire shake that rocked me so hard. ... I hadnt felt that kind of damage in a really long time. You literally felt your brain shaking around in fluid inside your skull and it hits the inside of your skull. I was so affected by it that I wanted to cry. Not because of the pain, but because of the way it made me feel. I felt dumb. I couldnt handle the lights, I couldnt handle sound. I just had to get back to my motor coach and go to sleep.The next day DeJoria said she felt hazy and had a headache, but shook it off. She lost in the first round.A week after the Denver event, DeJoria fractured her pelvic bone of the left iliac wing in an accident at Sonoma, California. She also slammed her head into the roll cage, but due to the severe pain from the broken bone in her pelvis, she brushed the head issue aside.DeJoria spent August recovering and returned in mid-September for the NHRAs Countdown to the Championship. She was 10th in the standings and, therefore, had qualified for the title run. The 39-year-old DeJoria remained 10th throughout the Countdown and was guaranteed a 10th-place finish in the standings after Las Vegas.She wanted to attend the awards banquet in Pomona that follows the season finale, but her doctor vetoed airplane travel. Her team didnt want to compete at Pomona without her, but she believed her crew needed to be there to finish the season on somewhat of a good note. Veteran Jeff Arend substituted for her.The show must go on, DeJoria said. I love my guys. I want them to have a good run at it, and well make it happen any way we can. I just needed extra time to get myself back in order.Deb Williams is a North Carolina-based writer and former editor. She has covered auto racing for United Press International, USA Today and The Charlotte Observer. Cheap Atletico Madrid FC Jerseys . The 19-year-old Olsen played 34 games with the Kelowna Rockets of the WHL this season. In that time, hes recorded 17 goals and 17 assists with 36 penalty minutes. 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BERKELEY, Calif. -- Starting from about the age of 6 as a kid growing up in Texas, California quarterback Davis Webb would sit in front of his television on college football Saturdays with a stack of index cards to draw out plays that caught his eye.Webb then would deliver those cards to his father, Matt, a high school coach in hopes they would be used in games the following week.That might not be typical childhood behavior but it sure resonates with Webbs college coach Sonny Dykes and coordinator Jake Spavital.Like Webb, those two are also sons of coaches whose lives have been focused on football since the time they first picked up a ball. Those shared experiences have helped Cals first-year quarterback and coordinator build up a relationship with Dykes that the Golden Bears hope will pay dividends on the field.Theres a love and respect for the game that occurs when you grow up around it, said Dykes, the son of longtime Texas Tech coach Spike Dykes. We all share a passion for the game, a respect for the game. It makes us happy to be around football. Thats when were all at our happiest.Thats where the three have spent so much of their time for as long as they can remember. For Webb, it started when he was drawing up those plays he hoped his dad would use.He was probably too young to even be doing that, Matt Webb said. You wouldnt think someone that young would do that but he would draw up some of his favorite plays and then hed leave them by my nightstand or in the bathroom where Id see them. Thats how he got started in his love for football, particularly the strategy of it.Being around football so often helped create Webbs strong work ethic that helped him win the starting job at Cal just a couple months after joining the program as a graduate transfer from Texas Tech.He recalls in particular seeing one of his fathers players work his way back from reconstructive knee surgery and took a lesson from that about the benefits of hard work.Watching all the time his dad put into coaching also taught Webb about the sacrifices his coaches made and in turn made him more appreciative of their work.Being the son of a coach wasnt always easy as Matt Webb said he often was harder on Davis when he coached him in high school than other players because he was his son. Davis also got upset at times when Matt didnt run the plays that Davis suggested.ddddddddddddNow that Davis is in college, the relationship is simpler.In high school he was all on top of everything, whether on the field or at dinner that night, Davis Webb said. Now hes more a dad.But the lessons from dad have helped make Webb the player he is today. He is an avid film watcher and user of virtual reality technology. His knowledge of the game and the offense make it easier for him to make suggestions to his coaches.When you grow up as a coachs kid you pay a lot of attention to detail, Spavital said. Davis watches tape from practice probably two or three times. One hes going through the whole thing about scheme. The next hes going through for his technique. He pays close attention to every single person on the field. That makes communication easier for me because hes up to speed and hes studied everything about it.Spavital was a similar type of player as the son of a longtime high school coach in Oklahoma, Steve, and grandson of former NFL player and longtime coach Jim, who spent two years as an assistant in the NFL.Like Webb, Jake Spavital spent plenty of time as a kid mapping out plays with his dad, using stencils to draw them out in the days before PowerPoint.They were pretty advanced, Steve Spavital said. He knew what he wanted to do, misdirection and hell have some reverses in there and every time he throws the ball its going to be vertical. Hes going to go for the home run ball.Steve Spavital had attended clinics run by Sonny Dykes father, Spike, and was excited when Jake left Texas A&M this offseason to join the staff at Cal.Steve Spavital, who is now retired, attended some spring practices and meetings at Cal and gets his coaching fix through Jake and his other son, Zac, a defensive assistant at Texas Tech.Spike Dykes also enjoys the life of a retired coach after more than 40 years on the sideline in high school and college, including 13 as the head coach at Texas Tech.Now Spike just watches games and makes suggestions.I give him a lot of advice, he doesnt take much of it, Spike Dykes said. I dont blame him. Im big on advice. I have all the answers and no solutions. Thats the way it works. Wholesale Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys cheap jerseys Cheap Jersyes Cheap Basketball Jerseys Cheap NHL Jerseys cheap jerseys Cheap Jerseys Cheap Jerseys Cheap Jerseys From China Cheap NFL Jerseys ' ' '