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Nicole Moneer Guerrero is a fitness guru. And a friend. And a good sport. And after a weekend in Davenport, Iowa, at the IFBB Iowa 212 and Pro Bikini Championship and NPC Battle of Champions, she is a qualifier for the 2012 Olympia. Nicole competed in the Bikini division and finished third. Congratulations.
Nicole Moneer Guerrero (left) and Diana "Barbie" Fields are all smiles at the Nov. 12 IFBB and NPC event in Iowa.
And now some of us have an excuse to go to Las Vegas for the Olympia — and call it work. OK, an excuse to go to Las Vegas in September. Just as some of us can rationalize going to Columbus, Ohio in March — and if that isn’t a winter vacation spot, what is? — for the Arnold Festival that features a bunch of folks in teeny outfits. Thankfully, the ones that some of us will be focusing on are of the female variety.
All of which may help explain why some of us were on a treadmill while watching part of Sunday’s Chicago Bears-Detroit Lions encounter. Given the way the Lions played, “game” doesn’t seem an accurate description. SOmetimes it resmebled a sumo match with guys in helmets and cleats and uniforms. Sometimes it resemebled something of an alley fight. Occasionally it resembled a football game, though not a particularly well-played one from a Detroit perspective.
While Nicole may be going places, some of us were going nowhere on a treadmill (OK, possibly to a healthier existence), and the Lions appeared to be going toward diminished likelihood of a postseason berth.
Speaking of going somewhere, one can only hope the media continue to move the Penn State story along and not let it fade away. Chances are responsible news organizations will keep the light shined on former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, who is the subject of a grand-jury investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse.
Lovely Lariyah Daniels was among the competitors at the Iowa event on Nov. 12.
To say Saturday’s game against visiting Nebraska started the healing process seems beyond ridiculous. Not to mention downright insulting and insensitive to the victims of sexual abuse.
The story won’t go away. Or certainly shouldn’t.
Appearing on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” on NBC, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett said, assistant coach Mike McQueary — who gave testimony that he witnessed Sandusky sexually abusing a boy estimated to be about 10 — met “the minimum obligation” of reporting what he saw to his superiors, who are required under Pennsylvania law to report such assaults to authorities. But McQueary “did not in my opinion meet a moral obligation that all of us would have.”
As attorney general, Corbett initiated the investigation that led to the charges against Penn State that resulted in Paterno’s firing last week.
“When the word gets out, when people understand that authorities are actually doing something about this, that they may be believed, then more people come forward,” Corbett said of abuse victims.
Here’s hoping Corbett’s words ring true, and justice will be served. Even if fans of the Penn State program might not like the picture that emerges of their beloved football team and an iconic coach whose career has ended more unceremoniously than any other who comes to mind.
The video procurement department at elliottharris.com has nothing from the Iowa show with Nicole, but there is a lovely interview with Marla Kramer from the 2011 NPC Midwest Ironman event Nov. 5 in Chicago: