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Conservative sportswriter Jason Whitlock: “Deion says he’s a follower of Jesus Christ, but he completely ignores every scripture related to humility.”
After the University of Colorado football team upset victory over Texas Christian last weekend, evangelicals fell in love with the Buffalo coach Deion Sanders. Here are some examples: Every now and then Glenn Beck’s Blaze Media publishes something I agree...
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What happens to the longsuffering Detroit Lions fan if the team starts winning?
I am not a Detroit Lions fan, but I have a future son-in-law who lives and dies with the team. Over the last couple of years I have watched him as the Lions lose yet another game on a last-second...
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Alone at home plate with the winning run
Over at The New York Times, David Waldstein writes about a new development in the culture of Major League Baseball. In the old days walk-off wins were “celebrated at home plate with the player who scored.” But at some point...
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Remembering Jim Abbott’s no-hitter
Thirty years ago today a one-handed baseball player named Jim Abbott pitched a no-hitter. Watch:...
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Mets announcer Gary Cohen slams Baltimore Orioles management for suspending announcer Kevin Brown
Orioles management suspended its play-by-play announcer, Kevin Brown, for this: Here is Mets announcer Gary Cohen: I agree with Cohen’s comment about the Orioles this year. On Saturday night I was at Camden Yards for the celebration of the Orioles...
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David Brooks makes a Kuyperian argument against the LA Dodgers
Here is the The New York Times columnist: If I walked onto the field at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles and stomped on a Dodger’s uniform on home plate, I hope that the Dodgers and their fans would be upset....
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The Author’s Corner with Bonnie Hagerman
Bonnie Hagerman is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and Director of the Department’s Undergraduate Programs at the University of Virginia. This interview is based on her new book, Skimpy Coverage: Sports Illustrated and the Shaping of the Female...
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“Saudi Arabia just bought professional golf”
Here is the editorial board of The Washington Post: When the Saudi-backed LIV Golf was trying, early last year, to attract the PGA Tour’s top players, the legacy organization implied it would never align itself with a kingdom trying to...
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Will the Nuggets be the last old ABA team to make it to an NBA final?
It sure looks like it. In 1976, four teams from the American Basketball Association joined the National Basketball Association. Learn more about the ABA and the merger here or you can listen to our forthcoming podcast interview with Theresa Runstedtler,...
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Why did the 1985 St. Louis Cardinals lose the World Series?
Don Denkinger, the umpire who blew a call at first base in game six of the 1985 World Series, died on May 12, 2023. Watch: Here is Cardinals fan Will Leitch at The Washington Post: The reason the Cardinals lost...
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Canada’s last minor league baseball team
The people of Vancouver love their Canadians, the Toronto Blue Jay’s Class A baseball club and Major League Baseball’s last minor league team. Here is a taste of Kurt Streeter’s The New York Times piece, “Is This Heaven? No It’s...
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Pitch-clocks, pizza boxes, and infielders playing where they are supposed to be playing. Welcome to the 2023 baseball season!
I’ll let veteran sportswriter Rick Reilly take it from here: I used to love baseball, but I stopped watching when games got slower than sloth races. Last year, the average game was 3 hours and 3 minutes. No, thank you. I...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on LeBron James breaking his NBA scoring record
At his Substack, Kareem sets the record straight on a lot of the rumors. He is happy LeBron broke his scoring record. He corrects his old teammate Magic Johnson. He says he is more focused right now on his activism...
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Do American football players need more than prayers?
The nation was shocked when Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed during a recent Monday night football game. For several days the Hamlin story shared top billing in the American news cycle with Kevin McCarthy’s bid for Speaker of the...
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What happened to the Rose Bowl?
According to California writer Joe Mathews, the Rose Bowl football game is dead. It died from “two chronic diseases–greed and our winner-take-all culture.” Here is a taste of Mathews’s piece at Zocalo: But the Rose Bowl itself—a post-season football game...
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Amy Bass: “We witnessed the greatest sports championship game in history”
Earlier today I wrote a few words about the World Cup in a blog post on Pope Francis. But I would be remiss if I did not share sports historian Amy Bass‘s piece published today at CNN.COM. Here is a...
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Eugene Robinson on sportswashing
I am not much of a soccer fan, but I have enjoyed following the World Cup. I was skeptical about holding the event in November and December (it was held at this time because of the excruciating Qatar heat), but...
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Hail!
Over at The New York Times, Matthew Walther, editor of the Catholic literary journal The Lamp, makes the case of the University of Michigan football program. Here is a taste:  In this year’s College Football Playoff, which begins on New...
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