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CALGARY - Sam Edney will wear a helmet that makes him feel unstoppable in his first international luge race since the Winter Olympics.The three-time Olympian will don a helmet designed especially for him by Richard Flamenco when he races at a World Cup event Saturday at his home track in Calgary.Flamenco has spent much of his 19 years in the Alberta Childrens Hospital with an incurable skin disease called Epidermolysis Bullosa. Its a condition that causes painful blistering of fragile skin.Unable to participate in sports, Flamenco discovered and developed his artistic talents during his time receiving treatments in hospital. He presented Edney with a helmet adorned with a ferocious bear and claws raking the sides of the helmet on Friday.The inspiration this helmet is going to be give me on my runs this weekend, I cant explain, Edney said. I put the helmet on and I immediately feel this power that overcomes me and its going to be really cool.I was actually at his house and watching him meticulously paint this helmet stroke by stroke. It filled me with something I cant describe. Its going to be an emotional weekend, but its going to be a very powerful weekend where Im going to feel unstoppable when I have this helmet on.Flamenco knew Edney liked bears and sea otters, so he started his creative process from those concepts.I think I had seven different ideas for this helmet. To really focus and pick one was really hard, Flamenco said.The one that really caught my eye — I was at home doing sketches on paper just to see how it might turn out — the one that really caught my eye was the bear kind of chomping on the top and scratching the sides of the helmet.Edney will wear the helmet in Saturdays race only. It will then be auctioned off on www.helmets4heroes.ca with the proceeds going to the Alberta Childrens Hospital.The foundation is the brainchild of alpine skier Brad Spence, who retired earlier this year after competing for Canada in both the 2010 and 2014 Winter Games.The 30-year-old raced in Sochi, Russia, in February wearing a helmet designed by Gillian OBlenes-Kaufman. Spence met the teenager just over a year ago when she was hospitalized with osteosarcoma, which is bone cancer.When I wore it in Sochi, it was so much more powerful than the Olympic message itself, Spence said. I was able to bring her along the journey with me.OBlenes-Kaufman died Monday in Calgary at the age of 18. Spence will attend her funeral Saturday. He had gifted the helmet back to OBlenes-Kaufman as a wedding present before her death. He began thinking he could turn their experience into something more.Her smile is something Ill never forget, Spence said. I realized this is a unique opportunity for me to give back to the community around me beyond sport.It was an opportunity to connect athletes to the community on such a personal level and create strong bonds between the athlete and the child battling something.For me the focus was on the children and providing them a long-term positive goal to look forward to and hopefully give them a little hope during a tremendously difficult period of their life.Spence is in the middle of an intensive year-long Bachelor of Commerce program at Royal Roads University, but felt he couldnt wait to launch the project.In addition to individual causes like the childrens hospital, hed like to see money raised by Helmets For Heroes to eventually tie into helmet safety and concussion awareness.By the 2018 Olympics, Id love to see an athlete from every helmet-wearing sport have a Canadian representative for Helmets For Heroes, Spence said.Ive love to grow this thing internationally and start looking at other sports and even tying in the military. Theres lots of helmets there. I see some really unique parallels between a project like Helmets Four Heroes and the heroes are the Canadian military.Edney and his Canadian teammates finished agonizingly close to an Olympic medal in the new relay event in Sochi, but settled for fourth. The 30-year-old Calgarian placed 11th in mens singles.A sports hernia kept Edney out of the first two World Cup races this season, so his first will be Saturday at Canada Olympic Park.The helmet was unveiled and Helmets Four Heroes was launched by Flamenco, Edney and Spence at an outdoor news conference beside the gourmet grocery store where Edney works in the summer.Flamenco intends to be at Saturdays race. Hell looked forward to feeling part of an international sports event.When I was young, I always watched baseball games and hockey games and all my friends at school would always go out after school and play soccer in the field or even during recess. I would never be able to play those games, he said. When I was in the hospital . . . the thing I always ended up doing was doodling, drawing, sketching and I always just found that was my happy place when I was in the hospital.When I found out these guys wanted me to design something for a sport, yes definitely, I guess I am part of a sport in a certain way. Wholesale Shoes From China .com) - Real Madrid claimed its 20th consecutive win across all competitions by cruising to a 4-1 victory at Almeria on Friday. Wholesale China Shoes Free Shipping . Browns owner Jimmy Haslam announced the move with Young on Monday during a speech at a Pro Football Hall of Fame luncheon. http://www.wholesaleshoes.us.org/ .com) - Stephen Currys jumper with 3. Shoes Wholesale China Market . Canada will host the second stop on the circuit, the 2014 Skate Canada International in Kelowna, British Columbia from October 31 - November 2, 2014 at Prospera Place. Cheap Shoes China Free Shipping .S. Basketball Writers Association. McDermott, who finished his career at Creighton as college basketballs fifth-leading scorer, accepted the honour from Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson at AT&T Stadium, site of the Final Four.HOUSTON - The Houston Rockets needed one win in their last two games or a loss by Portland on Wednesday to secure home-court advantage in their first-round playoff series against the Trail Blazers. They were certainly happy to wrap it up Monday night instead of waiting until Wednesday to learn their fate. Chandler Parsons scored 21 points and Dwight Howard and Terrence Jones added 20 apiece to lift the Rockets to a 104-98 win over the San Antonio Spurs. The victory gave No. 4 seed Houston home-court advantage in their first-round playoff series with Portland. "We fought hard for it," coach Kevin McHale said. "It took a little longer than I hoped, but we knew we had to get 54 wins and we got there with one to spare. Im glad we didnt have to wait until Wednesday to try and get it." James Harden agreed. "We wanted to come out here and take care of business and not rely on our last game on the road," Harden said. San Antonio used a big run at the beginning of the fourth quarter to go on top and was up by three later in the period when Houston scored eight straight to regain the lead at 95-90. A layup by Jeff Ayres got the Spurs within four points before Harden knocked down a long 2-pointer with less than a minute left to make it 100-94. Marco Belinelli had 17 points to lead the Spurs, who limited the minutes of stars Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili with their top seed in the Western Conference playoffs already secure. Duncan had 12 points in less than 30 minutes, Parker scored 10 in about 25 and Ginobili had 10 in about 22. "We definitely did what we wanted to do," Parker said. "We were able to play everybody — no injuries — and we got a good sweat out of it. We did some good stuff and Houston got the win at the end." Harden added 16 points with seven assists for the Rockets, who swept the four-game series this season with San Antonio. Howard had 17 rebounds and Jones pulled down 11 for Houston. It was the second game back for Howard after he sat out the previous eight because of a left ankle strain. "I feel like I was in a better rhythm, but Im going to continue to get in shape, continue to do whatever I can to get my wind back so I can do more things on the flooor.dddddddddddd" The Spurs opened the fourth quarter with a 14-4 run to go on top 82-80 for their first lead since the first quarter. Belinelli got that run going with a 3-pointer and finished it with a jump shot. Houston missed five shots, including two layups as San Antonio took the lead. A layup by Parker cut Houstons lead to three points with about eight minutes left in the third quarter. The Rockets then used a 7-2 run to push their advantage to 64-56. Parsons started the run with a 3-pointer and Jones did the rest, starting with a tip-in before capping it with a soaring, one-handed alley-oop dunk on a pass from Harden. The Rockets scored seven straight points later in the quarter to push its lead to 14, but San Antonio scored the last six points of the quarter with four from Ginobili to cut the lead to 76-68 entering the fourth quarter. Houston led by nine after the first quarter and scored the first five points of the second quarter to extend its lead to 35-21. The Spurs had cut into the lead midway through the quarter and got within 41-36 with about five minutes left in the half after four quick points by Duncan. An alley-oop dunk by Duncan about three minutes later cut Houstons lead to 48-40 late in the second quarter. Harden got miffed at Ginobilis physical defence after that and put his left shoulder into him and knocked him to the ground as he drove down the court. That play was initially ruled a flagrant foul on Harden, causing him to yell and curse at the officials as Patrick Beverley held him back. The play was reviewed and knocked down to a personal foul, but Harden received a technical for his behaviour after the call. Ginobili made the free throw and Boris Diaws hook shot got San Antonio within five, but Howard reverse layup left the Rockets ahead 50-43 at halftime. NOTES: Duncan received a technical in the first quarter when he knocked Beverley down after the guard was called for a foul on Duncan. ... Howard got a technical midway through the third quarter when he seemingly inadvertently slapped Ginobili in the face at the end of a play. ... San Antonios Matt Bonner missed the game because of food poisoning. ... Francisco Garcia (sore back) and Parsons (sore wrist and hip) returned after missing the last game with injuries. ' ' '