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July 2026

July 08, 2026

Sports and War

Hayden Daniel relates the different kinds of sports to the different kinds of war: Military...

November 2025

November 27, 2025

Thanksgiving, Entitlement, & Grace

The opposite of gratitude is entitlement. But thanksgiving involves a sense of grace. That connection...

July 2022

July 12, 2022

How to Save College Football

With teams blowing up their conferences and other problems in college football, a proposal has...

August 2021

August 03, 2021

Sports Are Now Depressing

Sports have become depressing. Everywhere I look--the Olympics, professional sports, college athletics--I see scandal, controversy,...

June 2018

June 06, 2018

But the Disinvited Eagles Always Stood for the National Anthem!

President Trump disinvited the Philadelphia Eagles from the traditional White House reception for SuperBowl champions. ...

October 2017

October 11, 2017

NFL drops to “least liked” sport

The National Football League had surpassed Major League Baseball as "America's game." But no more....

February 2017

February 06, 2017

Super Bowl post-mortem

What a great Super Bowl. New England was down by 25 points late in the...

February 02, 2017

The Superbowl and vocation

The Superbowl is this weekend, time for the obligatory polls about whether or not God...

December 2016

December 07, 2016

So why the loss of interest in the NFL?

Television ratings are way down for professional football games. The NFL is trying to figure...

October 2016

October 17, 2016

Oklahoma State wins national football championship

Oklahoma State University has won its first national championship in football! For 1945. The American...

February 2016

February 05, 2016

Super Bowl L (or is it 50?)

The Super Bowl has always been the showcase for Roman numerals. But this year the...

January 2016

January 14, 2016

St. Louis Rams are moving to L.A.

The St. Louis Rams are moving to Los Angeles. The Oakland Raiders might also move...

January 12, 2016

How Clemson’s coach defied the anti-religion forces

What a game, the national college football championship! In an exciting back-and-forth game, Alabama beat...

December 2015

December 31, 2015

Reinventing New Year’s Eve with college football playoffs

I've got to say, I'm excited that the Sooners of the University of Oklahoma, one...

December 07, 2015

Not just a Hail Mary pass

Football has been good to me lately, with the Sooners making the playoffs, slated to...

September 2015

September 04, 2015

Why football?

A reporter transplanted from Chicago to work on the Daily Oklahoman who cares nothing for...

January 2015

January 31, 2015

The Cranach Super Bowl party!

You are all invited to the Cranach Institute virtual Super Bowl party! It will be...

January 31, 2015

Does God determine who wins the Super Bowl?

Last year a respected research institute found that 50% of sports fans believe supernatural forces...

January 31, 2015

Live-blog the Super Bowl

Here is where you can comment on the Super Bowl as the game is unfolding. ...

January 31, 2015

Live-blog the Super Bowl commercials

A curious development in the history of the NFL championship game has been the role...

January 22, 2015

The Patriots cheated!

The NFL has determined that the New England Patriots used under-inflated footballs, which are easier...

January 14, 2015

Why do the winners riot?

Ohio State beat Oregon to win the collegiate football championship, the first one under the...

December 2014

December 09, 2014

College Football Playoff controversy

This year we will have a college football championship playoff, eliminating all of that controversy...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Unions for college football players

The National Labor Relations Board, acting on a case brought by Northwestern University athletes, has...

February 2014

February 25, 2014

Changing West Point in the name of football

West Point has very high standards. It's hard to get into. Cadets have to be...

November 2013

November 20, 2013

The coach who never punts

A high school coach in Arkansas has developed a new football strategy: His team never...

November 08, 2013

The NFL’s corruption

Brutal bullying. Murder charges. Rape. Suicides. Scrambled brains. Just another week in the NFL. Pulitzer...

February 2013

February 23, 2013

What to call Washington’s football team?

I usually cast a jaundiced eye at efforts to change the name of sports teams...

February 04, 2013

Who won the Superbowl?

The Baltimore Ravens, of course, holding off a jaw-dropping comeback by the 49ers in an...

February 01, 2013

Superbowl XLVII

The day may come when reckoning time according to the birth of Christ will give...