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Submitted Photo The Carolina Renegades squad is hoping for a championship this season. Renegades from page X? 18 win over the Stanly County Panthers. They nearly took it all last season, losing by a point to the Greenville (S.C.) Seminoles in the CCFL semifi nal game in Columbia, S.C. "When these lights go on, these guys light up," said Dan Finkelstein, team vice presi dent and receivers coach. A longtime football fan, Glossenger started the Renegades five years ago. He played the game in the Army, but an injury put him on the sidelines. He channeled his love for the game into coach ing for the Carolina Heat in Greensboro and Thomasville Titans, both CCFL teams. He then decided Winston-Salem needed its own team. "I just saw the need in Winston because of the amount of talent in Forsyth County," said Glossenger, who works as a maintenance engi neer and lives in Davidson County. Over the past three years, the Renegades, one of the 1200 semi-pro football teams in the country, has had five of its players picked to play in the semi-pro National All-Star Game in Las Vegas. Glossenger has also been a pick, serving as an offensive coordinator and head coach in the big game. Renegades Running Back A1 Washington, now in his third season, has been picked twice to play in the Ail-Star Game. The former N.C. A&T Aggie is a Greensboro fire fighter. He's been playing the sport since he was eight and says that being on the field still makes him feel young. Renegades co-owners Sandy and Dale Glossenger started the team five years ago. Photos by Todd Luck Coach Dan Finkelstein pre pares to throw a pass. "It's something fun to do to stay fit," said Washington, 32, who plans to retire from the team after this season. Defensive Back Dwayne Ijames has been a Renegade for two years. He played at Elon College and then briefly for the NFL's Cleveland Browns and the AFL's Laredo (Texas) Lobos and Corpus Christie (Texas) Sharks. He said he left the sport after a lockout spurred by a dispute over salaries. He was remind ed how much he still loves the game when he saw his friends suited-up for the Renegades. Ijames, a 28-year-old sub stance abuse counselor in Greensboro, believes his expe rience is an asset, allowing him to guide others on the team while enhancing his own play. "1 play wise and smart now instead of physical and fast. I'm just as effective without all the testosterone," said Ijames, who too may call it quits after this season for a chance to serve as a Renegades coach. Defensive End Marques "Bus" Newman, 30, who's played at Fayetteville State University and with the AFL's Dallas (Texas) Desperadoes, is a second-year Renegade. He says the team is like a family and that he and all of his team mates share one goal. "We grew as a team and everybody's back this year, and our one goal is to get in that championship and get that ring. (We) got a lot of people on their last year playing foot ball, and we're trying to get it for them," said Newman, who plans to start teaching high school soon. Glossenger likes his team's chances. "Really, honestly and truly, because of the talent we got, the only people that can beat us are ourselves," said Glossenger. To sustain itself financial ly, the team depends on ticket sales and on sponsors like Nitty Gritty, Mossy's Sports Bar in Clemmons, JP Looneys in Kernersville and Smith and Associates in Houston, Texas. Atkins Academic and Technology High School pro vides the team with a place to practice and a stadium in which to play home games. In exchange for the support it has. received, the team gives back whenever it can. The Renegades collected food for Second Harvest Food Bank and lent some muscle to a Habitat for Humanity build. The Renegades also asked fans to bring items to games to cre ate 70 care packages to an Army engineering unit in Afghanistan. That cause was personal for the Glossengers, who have two sons in the mil itary. The next Renegades home game will be against the Winston-Salem Red Wolves at 7pm. this Saturday at Atkins High School. 3605 Old ? Greensboro Road. For the Renegades full season sched ule. got to wwwsenegadesfoot ball.com. Election from page Al Data from Rasmussen Reports, a polling agency, shows promising results for the Obama campaign, as 71 percent of African Americans reported being "very excited' about voting in the upcoming election, compared to only 47 percent of whites. Rasmussen also found that the African-American elec torate in North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia has grown much faster than the non African-American electorate over the past four years. "African Americans across North Carolina are enthusiastically engaged in the President's re-election campaign several months before November, recogniz ing the role they play in con tinuing the President's his toric journey to a second term," French stated. "...North Carolina voters know President Obama's commitment to restoring middle class security and making sure that hard work pays off stands in stark con trast to Mitt Romney's histo ry as an outsourcing pioneer shipping jobs overseas instead of creating jobs here at home..." Chenita Barber Johnson, president of the African American Caucus of Forsyth County, said the caucus, an subsidiary of the NC Democratic Party, is working hard to make sure African American voters know what is at stake if they stay home this Election Day, with voter registration and voter educa tion efforts across the county. "We stand to lose a lot of what we've gained if the African American communi ty is not really energized to support Obama in the presi dential election," said the city native. "...We did make history (in 2008). People said we couldn't do it. Now that we've done it, we have to keep the history moving for ward, by keeping him in office." Barber Johnson, who has led the Caucus for the past two years, said she believes the 2010 election, in which many Democrats fell to Republican con tenders in the state and across the nation, was a stark reminder that low participation can lead to big changes. "I really think the election of 2010 was a wake-up call. 1 think it really shocked a lot of people," she remarked. "Because of what happened in 2010, we understand now ? how fragile and how wonder ful our democracy is." African American voters have heavily favored Democratic candidates for decades, Dinan said, but what made the difference in 2008 was the enthu siasm for the Obama campaign. "There's no sur prise ""who they Dinan voted tor, he remarked. "The big change there was they turned out in greater numbers than ever before." Dinan said young voters. who overwhelmingly sup ported Obama in 2008, but are traditionally more divid ed on their support than African Americans, will be another key group to watch in this election cycle. In a state like North Carolina, where the margin in the last election was so slim, every vote - and every demograph ic - matters, Dinan said. "When you win by 14,000 votes, in a state with several million voters, any of those votes is important," he remarked. "Every group is a potentially pivotal voting group." I The Chron icle Like us on D facebook Go to www.facebook.com/ wschronicle Rep. 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