The Joshua Yoder Blog

 Hard to believe that 25 years has past since the death of one of auto racing's greatest drivers. The man in black, the Intimidator, Dale Earnhardt. Time really does fly by, I mean 2001 seemed like only yesterday and now it is 2026. The Daytona 500 is coming up and honestly, I'm not really excited for it. Nascar hasn't been very appealing to me for quite a long time now for a number of different reasons, but back to Earnhardt. Earnhardt began his career in 1975 and has build a career that few have ever achieved. In fact, Earnhardt is just one of three Nascar drivers to have won seven Cup championships with the other two being Richard Petty and Jimmie Johnson. He compiled a grand total of 76 Cup wins, 428 Top Ten finishes and 22 Poles positions during his Hall of Fame career. Which Earnhardt was inducted in 2010. Although Earnhardt wasn't my personal favorite driver growing up as a kid, I became a major fan of his son Dale Jr and I will tell you why. Going back to the 20...

 WOW! It finally happened! The Indiana Hoosiers our the National Champions of college football defeating the Miami Hurricanes by the final score of 27-21. First and foremost, what a game between both teams, great effort on both sides, but sadly there can only be one and it was the Hoosiers who came out victorious. In fact, this was the first ever college football National title for Indiana in its entire history of the program. And to be honest with all of you, it was really amazing to see. Ever since I first starting watching college football as a little kid, the Hoosiers were not actually a football school. They were usually a team that many people would beat up on and now look at them, they are the National Champions, undefeated even. Head Coach Curt Cignetti certainly deserves a lot of the credit in turning this program into a championship caliber team. I mean, the guy literally in his second season with the team and led the Hoosiers to an unbeaten National Champions. As the Hea...

 You know with it being a new year, we all have those new year's resolutions that are basically goals we set up to accomplish during the bring new year. Most times, we unfortunately do not reach those goals due to one thing or another. But for me, I really wanted to be able to achieve this becoming more positive in my life. Which has become more of a mission for me for the year 2026 than it has been in previous years. It is no secret that I struggle with mental health like depression for basically my whole life, but now more than ever, I wanted to find ways to be more positive and I set a couple of goals that I am hoping to complete. And I managed to complete one of those set goals for 2026 and that was to donor my hair for Wigs for Kids.  The idea started a while back when I first decided to let my hair grow out. To be perfectly honest with you guys, I didn't really think it would grow like it did. If you seen how my dad is, you would totally understand, basically, all the me...

 One of my personal favorite pro wrestling factions in recent memory. The Undisputed Era brought back a lot of joy for me as a fan and was one of best things to watch during their amazing run in NXT in my humble opinion. In 2017, the group was originally a trio with such great talent like Adam Cole BAY-BAY! Kyle O'Reilly and Bobby Fish before eventually being joined by Roderick Strong. To say these guys carried the black and gold brand is an incredible understatement and honestly, I was so proud of them. You see, one of the reasons as to why I loved the Undisputed Era was simply because I have been a fan of these guys year prior to them coming to the WWE.  I first saw these guys in a little wrestling promotion called Ring of Honor and I had been fans of theirs ever since. Adam Cole being the leader of the Kingdom was a joy to watch while Kyle O'Reilly and Bobby Fish aka Red Dragon was such an amazing tag team and Roderick Strong in my humble opinion is a very underrated wrestl...

 Being a fan of history, it is always fun to read about how these use to be or things that no longer exist for one reason or another. One of those historical things involves sports and with it being football season, I decided to write about an old NFL team. Nowadays, people see the National Football League as this multi-billion dollar industry, which it is indeed. But it didn't start out that way. In fact, when I see some semi-pro football that happens around Mifflin County, it is exactly what the NFL was like back in 1920. Where teams were just basically traveling teams featuring regular folks, not the athletes we see today. One of those teams had caught my eye was the Hartford Blues who 100 years ago played their one and only season with the NFL before leading and eventually folding.  The Blues were created in 1924 by Connecticut sports promoter George Mulligan and in its first team years of existence, the Blues came out with two championships under Head Coach Dick McGrath. ...

 It is no secret that I do enjoy a good Martial Arts movie and honestly it has been too long since I wrote about one too. And recently my twin and I along with our buddy Justin decided to take a look at an old classic and the film was called Hellbound which stars the great Chuck Norris. Everyone knows that Chuck Norris creates great movies! But this one I didn't realize was created so we all decided to go and watch it. Hellbound was released in 1994 and was the final movie that was made by Cannon Films before closing down. Again, the film stars Chuck Norris who plays Frank Shatter who along with Calvin Levels who plays Calvin Jackson and together, alright with Leslie Hawkins (Sheree J. Wilson) try to stop an ancient evil entity named Prosatanos from destroying the world. Now, to be perfectly honest with all of you, I wasn't expecting this kind of movie from Chuck Norris. But I must say, I really enjoyed this movie. First and for most, this movie was pretty much straight to the ...

 Well folks, 2026 is finally underway, a new year, a new start and it was already full of surprises as myself and my twin brother Chad were giving a surprise. Our older brother Cody, his lovely wife Christine along with our little nephew Luke came down from Long Island to celebrate New Years with us. It also meant one other thing, it was the first time that me and Chad got to meet in person, our baby niece Ava! Now sadly, me and Chad were not able to see little Ava after she was born due to my parents having to take care of my Dad's doctors appointment before making it to New York. Honestly, it sucked because I was hoping to get away for a little while, but I understood why. Unfortunately, last week got pretty cold here in PA, so I was little nervous about them coming because I didn't want the kids to be freezing. But either way, I was totally excited yet anxious to see them. As we saw them come pulling into the drove way, Chad and I stormed out of the house to greet them as we...