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Danny Cipriani returns to Wasps intent on helping restore the clubs glory days after falling back in love with rugby at Sale.Cipriani launched his career with European and Aviva Premiership titles when Wasps were the dominant force home and abroad, but then found success far more elusive during spells at Melbourne Rebels and the Sharks.By his own admission winning silverware came easily when surrounded by players of the calibre of Lawrence Dallaglio and Josh Lewsey and his affection for the sport later waned amid the challenges of spending time in the media spotlight.Now back at the club where his career began in 2006 - albeit in the unfamiliar surroundings of Coventrys Ricoh Arena - the 28-year-old Cipriani believes he returns as a more complete and happier player.Everything is different at Wasps now, whether its the training ground or the stadium, but its still exciting to put the Wasps shirt on again and play for the club where I started and that I supported as a kid, Cipriani said.Theres been a big turn-around, but the brand of Wasps, what it stands for and the culture havent changed.That was a big pull for me and Ive been fortunate enough to come back here and represent the club again.Id definitely like to help win titles here. Id like to be part of that and thats one of the main reasons why I came back to Wasps.I felt very fortunate to start my career here and, off the back of that, win a couple of trophies straight away. I felt like it was always going to be like that, but it didnt pan out that way.At Sale Ive been in a team that helped me learn a lot about the game itself and fall back in love with the game again.I will put forward as much of my experience as I can and hopefully as a squad we can build towards that legend of the Wasps of the past. Air Max 97 SE Pull Tab . -- The Bishops Gaiters are showing they belong among the countrys top varsity football teams. Air Max 97 Blu . Brad Jacobs and his Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., team took control of the game early. http://www.airmax97outlet.it/scontate-air-max-97-bling-bling.html . -- Team after team passed on Andre Ellington in the draft. Air Max 97 Black Grape . -- Whether Jeremy Hill deserves a prominent role in LSUs offence this early in the season is a matter for debate. Air Max 97 BW . -- If Henry Burris has his way, he will be the starting quarterback to lead the Hamilton Tiger-Cats back to the Grey Cup next year. SIMI VALLEY, Calif. -- Hes made 18,000 parachute jumps, helped train some of the worlds most elite skydivers, done some of the stunts for Ironman 3. But the plunge Luke Aikins knows hell be remembered for is the one hes making without a parachute. Or a wingsuit.Or anything, really, other than the clothes hell be wearing when he jumps out of an airplane at 25,000 feet this weekend, attempting to become the first person to land safely on the ground in a net.The Fox network will broadcast the two-minute jump live at 8 p.m. EDT (5 p.m. PDT) Saturday as part of an hour-long TV special called Heaven Sent.And, no, you dont have to tell Aikins it sounds crazy. He knows that.He said as much to his wife after a couple Hollywood guys looking to create the all-time-greatest reality TV stunt floated the idea by him a couple years ago.I said, `You wont believe these guys, the affable skydiver recalls with a robust laugh. They want me to jump out without a parachute. She said, `Oh, with a wingsuit. I said, `No, they want me to do it with nothing. We both had a good laugh about that.But in the weeks that followed he couldnt shake one persistent thought: Could anybody actually do this and live to tell the tale?Because if anyone could, Aikins wanted to be that guy.After all, the 42-year-old daredevil has practically lived his life in the sky. He made his first tandem jump when he was 12, following with his first solo leap four years later. Hes been racking them up at about 800 a year ever since.He took his wife, Monica, on her first jump when they were dating and shes up to 2,000 now. The couple lives with a 4-year-old son, Logan, in Washington, where Aikins family owns Skydive Kapowsin near Tacoma.Over the years Aikins has taught skydiving, taught others to teach skydiving, even participated in world-record stacking events, those exercises where skydivers line up atop one another as they fly their open chutes across the sky.He tells of having his chute tangle with others on a couple of those efforts and having to come down under his reserve parachute. In all, hes used his reserve 30 times, not a bad number for 18,000 jumps.This time, though, he wont have any parachute.If I wasnt nervous I would be stupid, the compact, muscular athlete says with a grin as he sits under a canopy near Saturdays drop zone.Were talking about jumping without a parachute, and I take that very seriously. Its not a joke, he adds.Nearby, a pair of huge crannes defines the boundaries where the net in which Aikins expects to land is being erected.dddddddddddd It will be about one-third the size of a football field and 20 stories high, providing enough space to cushion his fall, he says, without allowing him to bounce out of it. The landing target, which has been described as similar to a fishing trawler net, has been tested repeatedly using dummies.One of those 200-pound (91-kilogram) dummies didnt bounce out. It crashed right through.That was not a good thing to see, recalled Jimmy Smith, the veteran Hollywood public relations man who, with his partner Bobby Ware, came up with the idea of having someone skydive without a parachute.Chris Talley, who had worked with Aikins on other projects and helped train him for this one, recommended the skydiver to the two Amusement Park Entertainment executives. He told them Aikins was arguably the only guy not only good enough but also smart enough and careful enough to survive this.Smith recalled how the three men gazed at each other with a look of foreboding after that dummy crashed through the net. Then they looked over at Aikins.Luke just said, `No biggie, thats why we test.Fox has had little to say about the stunt other than it will be broadcast on a tape delay, as is the case with all its live broadcasts, says network spokesman Les Eisner. It contains a warning not to try this at home.That would seemingly be difficult, as Smith and Ware had to scour a good part of the world, from Arizona Indian land to Dubai real estate, before they found what everyone agreed was the best place for Aikins to land.Hell come down in a dry, dusty, desolate-looking section of an old movie ranch north of Los Angeles where not that long ago Shia LaBeouf was battling Transformers.The drop zone, surrounded by rolling hills, presents some challenges, Aikins said, noting hell be constantly fighting shifting winds as he falls 120 mph (193 kph).Other skydivers have jumped from planes without parachutes and had someone hand them one in midair. But Aikins wont even have that.Why?To me, Im proving that we can do stuff that we dont think we can do if we approach it the right way, he answers.Ive got 18,000 jumps with a parachute, so why not wear one this time? he muses almost to himself. But Im trying to show that it can be done. ' ' '